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Git Gone
2+ albums
rockabillycountryRock and Rollswingjazz blues
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Git Gone (1994-1997) I (Jim Stringer) started this band in 1994 with Sharon Ward on bass and Karen Biller on drums. We played four or five gigs a week for the about 2 years! How we found that number of gigs in Austin is still beyond me, but it was really good for us all. In addition, I met Karen's husband, picker Dave Biller who was instrumental (ouch) in hatching the plot to record "Travis County Pickin'". When Karen left to join The Cornell Hurd Band, we hired Lee Potter, fresh from his Dale Watson tour. Source: Jim Stringer Gone Rockin' (The Music Room, 1998) - Git Gone ~ Reviewed by Stuart Munro It would be hard to come up with a better description of Git Gone's music than the one the band uses to indicate what it's about:"post-50s rock'n'roll." That catch-phrase perfectly encompasses Git Gone's reflection, or better, its refraction, of American music from that era-mostly rockabilly, but original rock and roll, hillbilly jazz and blues, and honky tonk as well. The Austin three-piece uses guitar, slap-bass and stripped-down kit to produce a clean rocking sound, and adds diverse vocals: Jim Stringer's rasp-tinged leads on some, Sharon Ward's sass on others and their dueting on still others. Stringer and Ward also divvy up the songwriting chores, and originals such as "Opposite Attraction," with its jazzy picking and country harmonizing, and the swingabilly of "What Do I Know" mix seamlessly with a doo-wap hipshaking version of "Paralyzed" and the hillbilly chestnut "
