Gill Landry
Gill Landry, also known by the stage name of Frank Lemon, is a singer/songwriter and guitarist born in Lake Charles, Louisiana, and a member of Old Crow Medicine Show and founding member of The Kitchen Syncopators.[1]
He started The Kitchen Syncopators with his friend Woody Pines in 1998 spending many years busking the streets of New Orleans, The Northwest, & Europe. The band recorded several self released albums and disbanded in 2004 when Gill began to lend vocals and play banjo and steel guitar for Old Crow Medicine Show.[2]
In 2007, Landry released a solo album titled The Ballad of Lawless Soirez on Nettwerk Records.[3]
In Spring/Summer of 2010, released his second solo album titled Piety & Desire, which features the Felice Brothers, Brandi Carlile, Jolie Holland, Ketch Secor, and Samantha Parton (of the Be Good Tanyas).
Landry appeared at the end of Be Good Tanyas video "The Littlest Birds".
[edit] References
- ^ Hahne, Jeff (9 May 2007). "Dark inspiration". Creative Loafing Charlotte. http://charlotte.creativeloafing.com/gyrobase/PrintFriendly?oid=161192. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- ^ "Gill Landry". The Post and Courier. 11 October 2007. http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=E6g1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=AxQLAAAAIBAJ&pg=5096,4011381. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- ^ Danielsen, Aarik. "Gill Landry: The Ballad of Lawless Soirez". PopMatters. http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/gill-landry-the-ballad-of-lawless-soirez. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
