The Deadly Gentlemen

The Deadly Gentlemen started out a couple of years ago as an experimental spoken word bluegrass band, but things have changed. Now they mostly play epic folk and grasscore. Instead of having a lead singer, DG use a nonstop orchestration of somewhat unconventional vocals, with everybody in the band doing everything they can. Expect a lot of three-part harmony singing, group shouting, really dense rhymes and an almost rap-like phrasing. The songs have kind of a rock ‘n’ roll feel, despite the acoustic… Show more bluegrass instrumentation. The melodies tend toward the anthemic side, and the upright bass is usually pretty in-your-face. A lot of their lyrics started out as miniature epic poems based on folk songs. That’s where the term “epic folk” comes from. The grasscore songs are the ones where everybody in the band throws caution to the wind and goes completely berserk. Kind of the punk or hardcore mentality, but applied to bluegrass. Um…just one more thing: they emphatically are not a boy band! There are five band members: Greg Liszt, banjo and vocals; Stash Wyslouch, guitar and vocals; Mike Barnett, fiddle and vocals; Dominick Leslie, mandolin and vocals; and Sam Grisman, double bass and vocals.

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