Paradise Square

In 1991, Jonathan Kane and Dave Soldier discovered for themselves the fife-and-drum music of north Mississippi, and formed The Kropotkins, a band that introduced punk blues, using rickety banjo, bass drum, snare, and fiddle (Mark Feldman and later Charlie Burnham) and slide guitar (Dog). The Kropotkins feature singer Lorette Velvette from Memphis and formerly classic punk drummer, Mo Tucker (Georgia, USA) of the Velvet Underground, a part now filled by Samm Bennett (Tokyo) or Alex Greene (Memphis). Features ex- members of Velvet Underground, James Blood Ulmer, Bo Diddley, Swans, Souxsie & the Banshees, Sonic Youth, John Cale bands. Their postmodern pre-blues (R. Christgau, Village Voice) produced two prior cult favorite CDs and the third promises to continue this habit. The group is popular on free form/ college stations, heavy rotation on WFMU. Recent concerts at Poisson Rouge in NYC, will be additional concerts in Memphis and New York.