Scrappy Hamilton

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Scrappy Hamilton originaly from Asheville,NC started of with Bill Smith, Joe Edel, Walker Young and Scott Kinnebrew in spring of 1999. Along the way they built a loyal following and helped foster a new branch of the local independent music scene, touring the East Coast extensively for five years. They released three albums independently, debuting with "At the rock bottom" in 2000. The band gained some underground notoriety, opening for such well-established acts as Squirrel Nut Zippers, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, The Moldy Peaches and Rebirth Brass Band. During this time, the band had a song ("Wastin' Time," penned by Kinnebrew) featured in the 2002 horror film, Cabin Fever. Late in 2005. the band—that has evolved from the often-comical hybrid "Stomp Rag Boogie" American throwback outfit to eclectic tune-focused indie rockers—decided to pack it up, leave the mountains, and permanently move to the sunny sass of Los Angeles. It was a surprising move for a band that had established themselves as a hard touring underground East Coast mainstay and one of Western North Carolina's favorites for long, raucous energetic shows and community flair in their projects like WPVM's Big Asheville Radio Hour. But it was a move the band needed to make. "I had been living in Asheville and trying to do the music thing since1997," says front man and main songwriter Scott Kinnebrew. "We thought that we could live in a small town and travel as much as we could,hitting all the spots, but we ended up bu

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