The Coal Porters
“Sid Griffin and the Coal Porters, a proper band with albums and tours and a fiddle.”
The Guardian, Laura Barton’s Back Page column
The Coal Porters Live 2015, Photo by Keith Belcher
The Coal Porters are an exciting and dynamic bluegrass combo with a DYNAMITE LIVE ACT featuring Kerenza Peacock – fine fiddle and vocals; Paul Fitzgerald – banjo and vocals; Sid Griffin – vocals, mandolin, harmonica and autoharp; Tali Trow, bass; Neil Robert Herd guitar, sporran and vocals.
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Biography
Formed in Los Angeles during the last century, as so many things were, the Coal Porters were originally an electric act centred around ex-Long Ryder Sid Griffin, author of the Long Ryders 1985 hit single “Looking For Lewis And Clark”. Read on…
