The Kinky Fingers release new track ‘Day In, Day Out’
The Kinky Fingers are an American rock and “Santa Fe” Surf trio whose sounds pull from the vaults and traditions of American music coast to coast, Canada to Mexico, blending elements of 1950s and ’60s rock, western swing, surf music, country, folk, jazz and the blues.
There’s quite a tale to their inception too, frontman, poet and multi-instrumentalist Tayler Doyle learned to play guitar while working as a prison guard for two developmentally disabled sex offenders in rural northern Colorado.
He was later fired for “having too much musical equipment”.
When he wasn’t accepted into Jazz school, he dropped out of university to travel around the country to his favourite musician’s childhood hometowns.
This pilgrimage would take him from Hibbing, Minnesota, to New Orleans, crisscrossing through the south along Highway 61, and eventually to Austin, Texas.
He learned the American roots of music organically while playing in local music clubs and coffee shops along the way, and when Doyle returned, he started a new band: The Kinky Fingers. Here they are.
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