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C Joynes & Mike Gangloff

C Joynes is a guitar player from the UK who is making a stop in Charlotte while on a US tour. His pal Mike Gangloff is joining him from Virgina and will have his band Eight Point Star in tow.

Says the Chicago Reader of Joynes: "He casts the widest net...in terms of influences and instrumentation. On one tune, bluegrass picking and West African-sounding marimbas gallop in unison. Elsewhere droning strings, skirling flourishes of electric guitar, rustling percussion, and churchy keyboard licks drop in and out of the ambling guitar figures like the sound effects on a Lee "Scratch" Perry Black Ark production...Plugged in, Joynes delivers cheery folk melodies in a grimy tone midway between Hubert Sumlin and Link Wray."

Gangloff is a fiddle player and member of both Pelt and the Black Twig Pickers. His outfit Eight Point Star plays droned-out twang music, with fiddle, guitar and upright bass. Says Paste Magazine of Gangloff: "Hes forever an inbetweener, refusing to reside within any traditional role musically...Hes a newspaperman. A fiddler. A percussionist. And perhaps a musical visionary, the likes of which only a select few happen upon. Find him, though, and its almost impossible that Gangloff wont play a bit of something enjoyable or at least vaguely familiar."