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email: kingcakeband@sbcglobal.net
Blues and Roots music with bite and a sense of humour. King Cake was formed in mid 2004 to help Mike record some original songs. The chemistry was so good that they decided to become an official band. Their repertorie consists of mostly Louisiana style Blues, classic Country and Western, Swamp Rock and catchy Originals with the odd Hendrix tune thrown in for good measure.
The King Cake Story as told by Frog Boy: I started hanging out in rest stop bathrooms and met up with Joe while selling cigarette butts to desperate smokers. In 1979 this was not a good business to be in but, I was feeling kind of addled at that point in my life as I had been abducted by aliens and taken aboard a UFO for an unspecified amount of time during the previous October... Playing music together just seemed to be the logical thing to do. At some point later on we met up with Turk when we found ourselves suddenly under a bridge on an abandoned stretch of railroad tracks. He claims to be an alien and I'm inclined to believe him, though not totally convinced.... The three of us walked a few miles and pretty soon we came to a refrigerator box city where we met up with Todd who had played with Moon Mullican back in the '40s. Joe, Turk and I pooled our 46 cents and were able to get a box for the night. It turns out that many of the people in this cardboard community had come from missing or crashed airline flights. Black helicopters would occaisionally drop supplies.... but that is another story. Three days later finally made it out of the woods to the main road. Frank picked us up hitchhiking, or so we thought. Actually he had gotten out of the his seat while driving to change an 8-track tape in the deck that was under the back seat. The van had driven off onto the shoulder and come to a stop. By the time he realized what had happened we had all piled in. Grateful to have help changing tapes he agreed to give us a ride. About a hundred miles later we coasted into the parking lot of a seedy road house in east Texas on fumes and realized that we were broke with no money for gas or food. The owner desperate for a band because the band he had booked had cancelled hired us on the spot. And the rest is history.....
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KING CAKE BAND's Online Radio Station(s)
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Swamp Radio
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Blues and Psychedelic with some Hard Rock thrown in for fun....
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Radio Type - mp3
Radio Mode - song_hifi
Total Plays - 64
Listen - (Playlist)
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| KING CAKE BAND's Messages
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Winter Blues '09
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Hey King Cake fans! Tired of being trapped inside feeding a hungry woodstove? Fed up with seeing the outside world through the frost on your windows? Is it finally cold enough for ya? If so, then you could be suffering from cabin fever, snow blondeness or the winter blues. Fear not, the cure is at hand! The 2009 Winter Blues Fest is almost here! Coming Saturday February 21st to the Elks Club in Willimantic! Doors open at 7pm. Proceeds to benefit the Willimantic 3rd Thursday Street Festival which needs your support now more than ever in these recessive times.This year the bands are: the Chili Blues Band, the Kingpins, and of course King Cake Tickets are available at: the Willi Food CoOp, Swiftwaters Artisans Cooperative, and Fred's Brickhouse Cafe .Please be sure to patronize these fine local businesses while you are there. I am posting some songs from our new album at the King Cake website so be sure to stop by and have a listen. MB
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1/23 4 King Cake at Fred's this Friday, Thanks, and news
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Come to Fred's Brickhouse Cafe this Friday 1/23 4 a great evening of food and music (and warmth....) with the one and only King Cake.
Come and support Fred who is going through a difficult time right now
and could use your support. Fred has done so much for live music in
this area and we want to keep him around so come on out and bring the
whole famndamily.... Big thanks to all who attended and played at the benefit for my wife
Meryl last Saturday at the Elks. It was hugely successful. Such an
outpouring of love and support makes us feel proud to be a part of this
community. Also in the coming up soon category is the annual Winter Blues Fest at the Elks on 2/21/09. The bands this year will be the Chili Blues Band, the Kingpins, and of course King Cake . Ticket will be on sale at the Willi Food CoOp, Swiftwater Artisans
Gallery, Fred's Brickhouse, and other locations to be announced...... That's the news for now! See you at Fred's! MB
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freds 12/12
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King Cake will be concluding our financial bailout tour at Fred's Brickhouse Cafe this Friday December 12th for our half price Christmas Special! Music starts at 7pm! There will be lots of great tunes and fun by your favorite
band, King Cake. So pack the kids up after Christmas shopping and haul
'em down to Fred's for some good clean American winter fun and Holiday Cheer! After all there's a recession on! Might as well celebrate as cheaply as possible! And there's no one cheaper than us! Your Favorite band King Cake! Call before Midnight tonite and you will receive a special gift just for participating!
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11/21/08
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King Cake will be continuing our economic bailout tour at Sneakers in Ashford, CT this Friday 11/21/08. We are applying for government
aid to compensate us because we made the foolish economic decision of
becoming musicians. We really had no way of knowing that playing music
was not an incredibly lucrative business. All the years of people
telling us to get real jobs and yelling "Skynrd" were simply
inaccurate indicators of the state of the music market. So you see, the
current crisis has caught us completely by surprise. We give you all
full assurances that if you just bail us out this one time that we will
never ever be so foolish again. Unless of course another set of unforeseen circumstances occurs.... Show starts at 9pm for all you geezers who can't stay up anymore......
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Halloween
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King Cake will be playing at Fred's Brickhouse Cafe this Friday October 31st for a Halloween Costume Gala. There will be a
costume contest, and of course lots of great music by your favorite
band, King Cake. So pack the kids up after trick or treating and haul 'em down to Fred's for some good clean American Halloween fun!
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Fred's 9/26
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Well it's that time of the month again... King Cake, your favorite band will be at Fred's Brickhouse Cafe where you'll hear Todd say," Hey, have we ever played this song before?" See you there... MB
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King Cake this Friday
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Hi all- just a reminder that we have a gig in Manchester at the Center For Progressive Therapy this Friday- music at
7:30pm....probably try to get there as clost to 6 as possible for food ... Click here for directions
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King Cake at Fred's Tomorrow Night!
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Whoops! I meant to get to this much sooner Your favorite band King Cake will be at Fred's Brick House Cafe tomorrow night 8/15/08. As usual the show starts at 7pm. We will also be performing next Thursday 8/21/08 at the 3rd Thursday Street Fest on the Gospel Stage at the First Baptist Church along with Dr.Rev. Fred Shapiro's Traveler.
Traveler's up at 6pm, King Cake at 7:45. Hope to see you at one of
these fine events.
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KIng Cake in July!
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Hot
enough for Ya?
July
is here and so is the heat. Kinda makes me want to throw a backyard mud
wrestling party. There’s no better way
to beat the heat. It’s good for the skin and it keeps the bugs off……
Two dates are of interest for all you King
Cake fans this month,
Friday
July 18th at Fred’s Brickhouse Café Show starts at 7pm. Great Pizza and the Cold Beer of your choice. Bring
the whole famn damily!
And
Sunday
July 20th for the Bailey’s
Garden Benefit at the Lebanon Fairgrounds.
Peter Tork of the Monkees is headlining, also appearing is Patti Tuite, King
Cake plays from 3:45- 4:45pm. Admission $20 help support a good cause and see a
whole day of great music! See the attached poster
FB
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King Cake At Fred's on Friday!
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Hi King Cake Fans! Sorry
about the earlier mis-sent message. What I meant to say is that we'll
be at Fred's on Friday. If you've gone to our website recently you may
have noticed that our MySpace page has been coming up, this will be
resolved in the next few days. Hope to see Ya at Fred's! FB Friday 5/23 Fred's Brickhouse Cafe the best Pizza in town! Bring the kids! Music by King Cake from 7-9pm.
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King Cake in May! Coffee house Tonight, Streetfest next Thursday!
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Hey King Cake Fans! We have a busy moth planned for May. We hope you can make some of these fine Events. Saturday 5/10 The Connecticut Community for Addiction Recover Presents The Never Alone Café at the
776 Main St.
Willimantic Conn.
King Cake will be playing from 8-9 pm,
Thursday 5/15 3rd Thursday Streetfest on the Mid-Town Stage in the beer garden King Cake plays from 7:30-9pm
Sunday 5/18 the Sunshine Festival fund raiser for the Windham Safe House at the Sports Bar in Windham starting at 1:30 p.m. Music by Bruce John's Eagleville Band, Buckwheat
Johnson, King Cake, Patty Tuite and the Boilermakers and Desiree and
The Time Machine. Raffle, food and drink. Admission: $20. Must be age
21. King Cake plays at 4pm.
Friday 5/23 Fred's Brickhouse Cafe the best Pizza in town! Bring the kids! Music by King Cake from 7-9pm.
the 2008 Spring Chicken Report
In other news, one of our chickens hatched out five baby chicks a couple of days ago. She had made herself a nest out by the retaining wall and sat on her eggs through rain and wind. It
kind of does my heart good because our flock had dwindled down over the
past couple of years due to coyotes and a Yorkshire Terrier who I can
only hope has moved on to a better place.... Anyway we had gotten down to one hen who we named Biddy. She had
survived because she had taken to roosting in a tree next to the house
at night. Then, towards the end of last summer we acquired a rooster from a friend who had
too many. Really any more than one rooster is too many (as my
lovely wife learned the hard way in a previous installment....) so, we
ended up with Handsome. I had wanted to call him Kelloggs because he
looks like the Kelloggs rooster but was out voted. (Being the farm boy
that I am I'm not crazy about naming animals that have the potential to
be eaten anyway but seeing as he is the rooster.....) Handsome takes his job seriously and starts work promptly at 5:30 every morning. Well, nature took its course and they had a few chicks in the fall
one of whom survived through the winter who we call Peep. Peep is a hen
now and of course no longer peeps but the name persists. She is also
the proud and devoted mother of our new chicks. Hopefully they are
numerous enough that that giving them names will prove futile. I luvs my chicken! FB
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King Cake in March
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Hey King Cake Fans, Many thanks to those of you who came to the Winter Blues Fest a few weeks back. The 3rd Thursday Street Fest raised a good chunk of money. It was good to see so many familiar faces. We have two gigs coming up in March, Friday the 14th at Fred's Brickhouse Cafe in Willimantic 7- 9:30pm, and Saturday the 15th at the Rain Desert in Danielson. At the Rain Desert we will be doing a double bill with Patty Tuite and the Boilermakers. Admission at the Rain Desert will be $5. Show starts around 9 or so.... See Ya There!
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Winter Blues Fest
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Hey King Cake Fans, It's that time of year again. Time for the Winter Blues Fest on Feb. 23rd at the Elks Home in Willimantic. The bands this year are the Kingpins, King Cake, and the Zydeco Hogs. Doors open at 7pm. Music starts at 7:30 Cash bar and food will be available. Proceeds to benefit the Willimantic 3rd Thursday Street Fest. Tickets available at: Mansfield Center General Store, Rte 195 for more information 423-9285
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New King Cake Videos
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The videos from our show last Thursday at the Rain Desert have been posted! You can view them here . Sister Patti Tuite joined us for White Bird and Fire on the Bayou. If you haven't been there yet you owe it to yourself to go. They've got lots of great music, atmosphere and food! Also don't forget we'll be at Sneakers in Ashford this Saturday! Click on the link for directions. Peace out....
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KING CAKE BAND's Gigs
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KING CAKE BAND's Online Shop
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Swamp Talk CD..... Cost $12.99
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KING CAKE BAND's Picture Gallery
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