BY AMANDA BURHOP
Ragtime is the
Devil’s Music
The Devil Makes Three mix and match genres
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heavy metal at an early age. “I was the coolest
agtime/country is the new punk.
little heavy metal second-grader,” she recalls.
Well, at least it seems that way.
For music lovers, the first album you own is a
Musicians have put away their elec-
precious memory, up there with first date, first
tric guitars and fancy amps (who needs elec-
cigarette or first beer — and
tricity anyway?) and sought
for Turino, that first album
out instruments that they can
The Devil Makes Three,
The Inkwell Rhythm
was Mötley Crüe’s Dr.
take and play anywhere. But
Makers
Feelgood. And lastly there’s
what sets these musicians
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Cooper McBean, guitar,
apart from the punk trend is
WOW Hall
who struggled back and
the distinctive sound each
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forth with his musical
band produces.
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The band now cites its influences as Steve Earle,
The Reverend Gary Davis and The Memphis Jug Band.
The Devil Makes Three, like the Inkwell
Rhythm Makers, utilizes a ragtime sound from
the 1920s and ’30s, but each group works it a
little differently. The Devil Makes Three
pushes its sound further by incorporating the
band members’ early influences, which are, of
course, punk. On their website, each member
recalls the moment they became interested in
punk. Peter Bernhard, who started guitar at age
12, initially became interested in blues musi-
cians like Lightnin’ Hopkins but quickly at-
tached himself to the sound and attitude of
punk. Lucia Turino, stand-up bass, found
choices. His mother was in a ’70s western
swing band, so he revolted by listening to punk
and heavy metal but came back to blues and
country through a George Gritzbach album.
The band now cites its influences as Steve
Earle, The Reverend Gary Davis and The
Memphis Jug Band. The influence of these
musicians becomes apparent in the band’s
style of finger picking as well as in the somber
yet agitated mood of their music. Just listen to
“Ten Feet Tall” from their first album — it will
make you feel like you’re in an old-time
Western.
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