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Labels
  
Homestead Safe House

Members
  
Wink O'Bannon

Record label
  
Homestead Records

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Origin
  
Louisville, Kentucky, United States (1984)

Albums
  
Bone, Hair and Hide, Callin' All Dogs, Wrath of the Path, Crazy Wild, Soul Boost

Genres
  
Rock and roll, Indie pop, Alternative rock, Rockabilly, Psychobilly

Similar
  
Jean Metcalfe, The Greenberry Woods, Alan Rhody, Paul Aldrich, The Solsonics

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Bodeco is a rock and roll band out of Louisville, Kentucky, formed in 1984 by guitarist, singer and songwriter Ricky Feather and drummer Brian Burkett. It later grew into a full band, with its most famous line-up featuring Feather, Burkett, guitarist Wink O'Bannon, bassist Jimmy Brown and multi-instrumentalist Gary Stillwell. Only Feather, Brown and Stillwell remain from that version.

Contents

Titled after a portmanteau of "Bo Diddley" and zydeco, the quintet typically plays a fast-paced country- and blues-tinged rock and roll. The band has recorded four studio albums, including the November 2009 release of "Soul Boost", and a live album.

Bodeco has had a considerable impact on the Louisville music scene, finding a place at No. 80 on WFPK's "top 1000 albums of all time" and inspiring Trouser Press to dub them "[o]ne of the most underappreciated combos in the early-to-mid-'90s indie roots-rock movement".

Another bodeco live lunch video


Style

Praised by Trouser Press for "celebratory party rawk", the band's psychobilly approach to music garnered comparisons to The Cramps, '68 Comeback and Southern Culture On The Skids. In 1992, The New York Times described the quintet as "a skunky country-rockabilly outfit", noting in 1993 that "[t]here's nothing quaint, cute or five-and-dime about Bodeco's brand of rockabilly. Greasy as a truck-stop burger and bumpier than a high-speed ride in the back of a pickup, this band of Louisville wild men eschews retro contrivances in favor of gristle, marrow and the occasional backwoods yowl".

Members

  • Ricky Feather – vocals, guitar
  • Jimmy Brown – bass
  • Gary Stillwell – percussion, keyboards
  • Gene Wickliffe – drums
  • Freddy "Southside" Wethington – guitar

    • Former members

  • Wink O'Bannon – guitar
  • Brian Burkett – drums
  • Rick Mason – guitar
  • Nick Reifsteck – guitar

    • Studio albums

  • Bone, Hair & Hide (1992)
  • Callin' All Dogs (1995)
  • Crazy Wild (2003)
  • Soul Boost (2009)

    • Singles

  • High Window (1995)

    • Compilation contributions

  • Wreck Room, Vol. 3 (1996)
  • Sourmash (1998)

    • Songs

    Suicide RideBone - Hair and Hide · 1992
    Whole Lotta TroubleBone - Hair and Hide · 1992
    Dead Broke and DirtyBone - Hair and Hide · 1992

    References

    Bodeco Wikipedia
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