“One of the most entertaining quasi-counter-culture acoustic duos in North America” Dirty Linen
“Charming, incisive and funny” Sing Out
“They spit on enough conventions to keep things interesting.” The Onion
Katie learned whore-house piano and bucket bass in the streets of the French Quarter. There she met Mike, a banjo-slinging grifter who sold CDs he claimed cured hangovers and small-mindedness. After a court house wedding, the pair hit the road. They spent their wedding night in a truck stop somewhere between Lafayette and the Atchafalya Swamp. And so Truckstop Honeymoon was born.
On August 29 2005, flood waters submerged their home base in the Lower 9th Ward of New Orleans. Truckstop Honeymoon were on tour when the storm hit and so on-tour is where they stayed. Mike and Katie played shows every night, lived out of their van and kept their two daughters entertained in convenience stores across America. But eventually, the road weary family parked their rig as far from any large body of water as they could get: Lawrence, Kansas.
Truckstop Honeymoon continue to tour and build a loyal following from Seattle to Sydney. They have put out Six CDs on Baton Rouge label, Squirrel Records, and a full length film by Nathan King Miller, “I Won’t Let The Angels Take You Away”, which documents their first tour back to the Gulf Coast in the wake of Katrina.
When they are not touring, Katie and Mike run The 9th Ward Pickin’ Parlor (in Lawrence, KS), a studio where they produce songwriters, bands and eccentrics from around the world, including Shawn Mullins (Sugar Hill), Split Lip Rayfield (Bloodshot) and Kirsty McGee (Hobopop, UK).
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