Champagne Charlie
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Champagne Charlie

Denver, Colorado, United States | SELF

Denver, Colorado, United States | SELF
Band Blues Cabaret

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"Champagne Charlie Talk Nudity On-Stage and Cheap Beer"

"They are a band that grew both musically and lyrically despite, or maybe due to, dimly lit rooms, and the smell of stale beer combined with sour bar towels. Manifestation artistique, originally a four member band, their numbers have grown to seven or more depending on the night. Like Chicago Cabaret, Champagne Charlie fully embraces a larger band ensemble, believing “the more the better.” Playing a dozen different instruments, the band combines elements of Jazz, Blues, Waltz, and Americana to create their own style of Dark Denver Cabaret music. With several members being multi-instrumentalists, rhythm and melodies intermingle as one instrument is set down and another is picked up. While the band plays a drinking man’s music, Ryan “Peepers” King sings with the gravelly delight of a parched throat encased in a sailor’s bones about love, loss, damnation, and a lack of forgiveness." - Listen Up Denver (Johne Edge)


Discography

Champagne Charlie-EP
Released September 2012

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Champagne Charlie formed in early 2011 in downtown Denver, CO. The band began as a four piece consisting of vocals, upright bass, trumpet, and junk percussion, but eventually over time settled into a well rounded six piece ensemble.

The majority of the members are multi-instrumentalists, ranging from lap-steel, banjo, trombone and more.
The band's sound finds its niche somewhere amongst "the aggressive debauchery of Gogol Bordello, the ivory-tinkling bawdiness of Tom Waits and the sleazy theatricality of cabaret."