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A Asylum Street Spankers, formed inside Austin, Texas in 1994, is an American swing, jazz, and dirty-blues band. Their tone is raucous & irreverant, & their lesson typically concerns destruct drug information & intimate connotations. Their unique healthy poronotus triacanthus, inside section, to the fact that it play 100% their indicate acoustically, while forgoing any nature and severity of amplification in the least.

A b& derived its title from either an Austin street in which it would typically busk that was nickknown as Asylum Street, nowadays named Guadalupe Street, and a term "spanker" which is an old musician's term for "one who plays his instrument well". It was along Guadalupe that the class action played the total of early shows; Asylum Street led to a state asylum.

Personnel
Christina Marrs Wammo Scott Marcus PB Shane Nevada Newman Sick

Former Members
Pops Bayless Korey Simeone Guy Forsythe Stanley Smith Reese Gray Mysterious John Dodson Col. Josh Arnson Leroy Biller Kevin Smith Adam "Tiny" Booker "Salty" John Salmon Jimmy Dean Eamon McLaughlin Charlie Rose

Albums
Strawberry (Survive) Lowriders On the Storm (Wammo) Mercurial "Stinkin'" b/w "Goodbye Cousin Early" My Favorite Record Begrime Ditties In the Land of Dreams (Stanley Smith) Sooner Than a Speed of Suction (Wammo) The Christmas Spanking Spanker Madness Hot Lunch Awful Novelties Spanks for the Memories.

Videos
''Sideshow Fez (DVD)

Asylum Street Spankers
Official site of this acoustic swing/blues/jazz/novelty band. Includes tour dates, photos, reviews and RealAudio song samples.

MetroActive: Asylum Street Spankers
Article by Richard von Busack, with photograph.


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