Entertainment For Lively Minds
Kitty, Daisy and Lewis
Posted by Nick White on 13 September 2010 - 10:58pm.
Fans of co-retronauts C.W. Stoneking and The Jim Jones Revue may also be interested in Kitty, Daisy and Lewis - at least as an astonishing live act.
They're a family from north London (3 offspring + parents) so steeped in old Americana it's unnerving - and they're also massively talented multi-instrumentalists.
At the Thames Festival yesterday they followed C.W. Stoneking, and both acts seduced a huge crowd of maximum diversity. It was mid-century Memphis till the mighty Ska Cubano whisked us off to Havana.
Meet the family:
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They're smashing Nick
Love their version of Going Up The Country
I think the mother
is Ingrid from The Raincoats
"We Dreamed America"
Here's the trailer for the documentary from which the clip above was taken, "We Dreamed America" - "a twisted tale of British roots and American music". Lots of Word-friendly artists included: