Two Gallants (band)

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Two Gallants
Two Gallants: Tyson Vogel (left), Adam Stephens (right)
Origin San Francisco, California
Country United States
Years active 2002–present
Genres Indie rock
Lo-fi
Labels Saddle Creek
Alive Records
Members Adam Stephens
Tyson Vogel

Two Gallants are an Indie rock duo from San Francisco, California. The name comes from the title of a story by James Joyce in Dubliners.

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[edit] History

Two Gallants are made up of Adam Stephens (b. 1982) on guitar, harmonica and vocal and Tyson Vogel (b. 1982) on drums and vocal.

Stephens and Vogel started gigging around San Francisco as Two Gallants in 2002, when both were twenty; the two had been making music together since the age of twelve. They made two separate unreleased CDs that are now out of print. Those recordings were spread around the US during the early years of touring (house shows, warehouses, street corners, parks, etc.) After recording their debut, The Throes, for Alive Records, they kept up the touring but started playing more clubs. In July of 2005, the band signed with Saddle Creek records. In August of 2005, they played their first shows overseas in London as well as Reading and Leeds festivals. In February of 2006 they released what the toll tells on Saddle Creek records. This spawned two singles: "Las Cruces Jail" and "Steady Rollin'". They toured Europe at the start of 2006 after the album release, played the Saddle Creek SXSW showcase in March, and then toured the US and parts of Canada in May and June. They were invited to play numerous European festivals throughout the summer and then picked up again in September to tour the US and Europe for the second time of the year.

[edit] Sound

As with The White Stripes, Two Gallants feature a duo of guitar and drums, and their music is rooted in the blues. However, Two Gallants are more influenced by the delta blues and folk music rather than the White Stripes' electric blues, which is based on the music coming out of Chicago and Detroit. Stephens plays bass, melody, and harmony simultaneously in the blues tradition, but with folk fingerpicking. Vogel's percussion is a trap of a hi-hat, a crash cymbal, a ride cymbal, a floor tom, tom, a snare drum, and a bass drum with an even smaller trap for acoustic concerts. His play is melodic rather than rhythmic. Themes to their music are murder, theft, stories of the old west, Antebellum South and racism. Many of the two gallants songs were inspired by long time friends, Jack hamon and Daniel silverwood. Jack had often quoted. "I just wish i could drop my wifes body in the frisco bay" adam stephens took note of this and added it into a song.

[edit] Walter's On Washington Incident

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[edit] Albums

[edit] Singles & EPs

[edit] Internet Singles

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