Traditional Country/Folk Songwriter Kevin Brinkkoeter performs solo and minimal accompaniment shows as The Ghost of Mice and Rifles. He led Austin’s Mice and Rifles from 2006 to their disappearance in 2009. Struggling with these modern times while being naturally drawn to a bygone era of folk and country music, The Ghost of Mice and Rifles is heavily influenced by the grit of early recording artists such as Jimmy Rodgers, The Carter Family and Lead Belly.
Mice and Rifles’(the band) 2006 debut EP All Kites Upwas hailed as a “morbid country masterpiece” by Austin Music + Entertainment Magazine and “a release that blindsides you with brilliance” by Austinsound.net. In 2007 they were voted by the Austin Chronicle as a “Top 10 Band to Watch”. They tore through the year with a performance at C3 Presents Big State Festival in Bryan, Texas with the likes of Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen and released their second EP Beginner’s Luck.
Doug Freeman of The Austin Chronicle wrote of Beginner’s Luck:
“Following the release of 2006′s fine All Kites Up, Mice & Rifles’ second EP proves the local sextet more unified and polished…maintains its power in the percolating intensity of Kevin Brinkkoeter’s low growl…seething in a bittersweet scowl and furrowed by Phil McJunkins’ pedal steel.”
2008 found the band performing regularly in Houston and Austin, maintaining their high-energy assault on “Alt-Country”. They earned an invitation to perform at the Long Center for the Performing Arts Opening Gala in March of 2008 while “Carefree Americans” and “Balance” were placed in the independent horror film “Live Animals” (Winner of Audience Choice Award at Memphis International Film Festival 2009) and “Carefree Americans” and “Storms” were placed in the Independent Short “Ki-Hi-Ka Ste’: Life of Chief George Tall Chief”
Mice and Rifles vanished in early 2009.
The Ghost of Mice and Rifles is steeped in the influence of a bygone era when The Carter Family ruled the airways and Country Music was “the music of common folk” -Hank Williams.
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Appearing Friday, October 1st at The ND at 501 Studios with The Happen-Ins and The Georgian Company (“Side B” EP release party!)
Traditional Country/Folk Songwriter Kevin Brinkkoeter performs solo and minimal accompaniment shows as The Ghost of Mice and Rifles. He led Austin’s Mice and Rifles from 2006 to their disappearance in 2009. Struggling with these modern times while being naturally drawn to a bygone era of folk and country music, The Ghost of Mice and Rifles is heavily influenced by the grit of early recording artists such as Jimmy Rodgers, The Carter Family and Lead Belly.
Mice and Rifles’(the band) 2006 debut EP All Kites Up was hailed as a “morbid country masterpiece” by Austin Music + Entertainment Magazine and “a release that blindsides you with brilliance” by Austinsound.net. In 2007 they were voted by the Austin Chronicle as a “Top 10 Band to Watch”. They tore through the year with a performance at C3 Presents Big State Festival in Bryan, Texas with the likes of Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen and released their second EP Beginner’s Luck.
Doug Freeman of The Austin Chronicle wrote of Beginner’s Luck:
2008 found the band performing regularly in Houston and Austin, maintaining their high-energy assault on “Alt-Country”. They earned an invitation to perform at the Long Center for the Performing Arts Opening Gala in March of 2008 while “Carefree Americans” and “Balance” were placed in the independent horror film “Live Animals” (Winner of Audience Choice Award at Memphis International Film Festival 2009) and “Carefree Americans” and “Storms” were placed in the Independent Short “Ki-Hi-Ka Ste’: Life of Chief George Tall Chief”
Mice and Rifles vanished in early 2009.
The Ghost of Mice and Rifles is steeped in the influence of a bygone era when The Carter Family ruled the airways and Country Music was “the music of common folk” -Hank Williams.
Feel free to connect on Facebook, Twitter and Myspace!
Thanks.