YARD SALE
New Paltz, New York, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2012 | SELF
Music
Press
“Who’s the best new band in the Hudson Valley? Yard Sale! hands down my new favorite. Those boys kill!” - Ulster Magazine
“Who’s the best new band in the Hudson Valley? Yard Sale! hands down my new favorite. Those boys kill!” - Ulster Magazine
“YARD SALE was unfreakin’ believably good! So thankful they were able to be a part of our little series and want to have them back for more - soon!” - Paper City Muddy Roots Blues Association
“YARD SALE was unfreakin’ believably good! So thankful they were able to be a part of our little series and want to have them back for more - soon!” - Paper City Muddy Roots Blues Association
“We are so grateful to Yard Sale. They generously donated their time and talent to our NYC fundraiser, which raised much needed money to keep our community station on the air and raise awareness of issues we care about; and they rocked the house! A great time was had by all!” - WFTE Radio
“We are so grateful to Yard Sale. They generously donated their time and talent to our NYC fundraiser, which raised much needed money to keep our community station on the air and raise awareness of issues we care about; and they rocked the house! A great time was had by all!” - WFTE Radio
“Yard Sale’s the most unique, entertaining, fun to listen to bluegrass bands I have heard in a long time; A definite must have at any establishment.” - The Barrel Saloon
“Yard Sale’s the most unique, entertaining, fun to listen to bluegrass bands I have heard in a long time; A definite must have at any establishment.” - The Barrel Saloon
“Yard Sale’s music with its strumming banjos and hand clapping choruses suggest that the good ol’ days aren’t too far away.” - New Paltz Times
“Yard Sale’s music with its strumming banjos and hand clapping choruses suggest that the good ol’ days aren’t too far away.” - New Paltz Times
“When you first listen to Yard Sale, you hear twang. In Yard Sale, that twang is real and the fun is evident in the music!” - Times-Herald Record
“When you first listen to Yard Sale, you hear twang. In Yard Sale, that twang is real and the fun is evident in the music!” - Times-Herald Record
Discography
Single Releases: (available through all online outlets)
1) The Low Dog Singles #1 (June 2013)
2) The Low Dog Singles #2 (October 2013)
3) The Low Dog Singles #3 (due December 2013)
Debut EP: Gone with the Sunrise (December 2012)
The band’s debut EP record, “Gone with the Sunrise,” will hit local record stores and be available online through sites including iTunes, Amazon, and Spotify starting December 11th, 2012. The new CD, issued on the Hambone record label, was self-produced.
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Bio
The outfit, formed in 2010, woke up in the midst of the Great Recession and decided that American audiences longed to hear authentic tales of classic crisis. Yard Sale tunes are
sung from the heart in 3-part harmony with a sense of pride, purpose, and dark humor. They deal with topics of country-fried angst like drinkin’ and cheatin’ and going for broke while going broke. But they also invoke the soulful beauty of R&B, the uplifting anthems of gospel, the lonesome melancholy of bluegrass, and the steamrolling syncopation of early 20th century riverboat minstrels and hobo jug bands.
Yard Sale’s stage presence invokes genuine high-energy Vaudevillian carnival barker theatrics. Shows typically include amateur auctioneering, for example, and the hawking
of actual garage sale items like used auto parts, secondhand VHS tapes, and dog-eared romance novels. The cumulative impact is that the band generates the contagiously
explosive spontaneity of a moonshine-fueled barroom brawl. So everyone in the audience gets swept up in a boot-stomping hoedown of hip-shaking proportions.
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