NEW RELEASE: Whiskey & Starlight

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Born at San Francisco's Secret Studios over a bottle of bourbon, Vagabondage began the long process of hewing together the anecdotes, tall tales, and memories that would eventually become Whiskey & Starlight. Full of road trip blues, and gallows heartbreak, this brand new album from Vagabondage is the perfect companion for a late night drive to nowhere.


Recorded and Produced by Sean Malroy at Saturn Studios (Ransom Note Records)
released 28 October 2011
John Flaw - vocals, guitar
Emchy - vocals, accordion
Hans Winold - upright bass
Sean Malroy - fiddle, mandolin, keyboards
Dustin Smurthwaite - trombone
Cover art: Raven Ebner (corviid.deviantart.com)                

FREE RELEASE: The 99

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To mark the 82nd anniversary of the stock market crash on Wall Street, and to honor the brave protesters occupying cities around this country and beyond, we're proud to release this free download.

THE 99
Remember the great economic decline
Of 10/24/1929
That crash on Black Thursday is echoed in time
Different day, same old crime
Different day, same old crime

High in their towers they look down on me
But I am a neo-revolutionary
We are the broken American Dream
But to them, we're the end to a means
But to them, we're the end to a means

So lay down your burdens and turn to the sky
Grit your teeth, open your eyes
Behold a new era and let out a cry
We are the 99

They ride four green horses made of your dollar bills
From Lower Manhattan to Beverly Hills
Their greedy filth-fingers will squeeze us until
Their corporate consumption kills
Their corporate consumption kills

So lay down your burdens and turn to the sky
Grit your teeth, open your eyes
Behold a new era and let out a cry
We are the 99


released 24 October 2011
John Flaw - vocals, guitar, whistle
Emchy - accordion
Sean Malroy - fiddle
Recorded and Produced by Sean Malroy at Saturn Studios (Ransom Note Records)

CD RELEASE: Live at the Boxcar

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The album Live at the Boxcar was born at the Boxcar Theater in San Francisco in January 2011, when Vagabondage opened for their friend and musical cohort, the ukulele genius Kelly McCubbin who was doing a series of live shows to record his new album. On a whim they asked if their set could also be recorded for posterity and so Live at the Boxcar was born.

Album Cover Photo: Carrina Maree Photography (carrinamareephotography@yahoo.com)
Album Cover Design: John Flaw
Logo: Jim Jeske 
Warning: Contains cussin'. 

Released 12 October 2011
John Flaw: vocals, guitar
Emchy: vocals, accordion
Hans Winold: upright bass

NEW RELEASE: Can't Stay Good Remix with Mixman Shawn

"CAN'T STAY GOOD (Mixman Shawn / Vagabondage) give me a musical orgasm--I'm hooked!"
--Peta Kaboother Cooper, The Junction 

"Now this is true fusion and brilliant!"
--Bobby Friction, BBC Asia

NEW RELEASE: Songs from the Bottom of an Empty Glass

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"What Vagabondage does with an accordion, a guitar and the healthy pair of lungs that John Flaw uses to belt out spectacular dirges should be bottled up. It could be used to clean oil spills, create peace on earth and concentrated into a powerful love potion..." --SFGate.com

"...The songs of people who can't help but sing, can't help but fill the night with song. It's the same basic instinct that inhabits folk, country and blues. The instinct that gets entire barrooms to singalong to jukeboxes, that drives drunks to fill streets with half-remembered verses after they find themselves between bar-stool and bed..."
--Sepiachord.com

Produced by: Jim Fourniadis 
Recorded at The Dark Room, San Francisco 

Album Cover Photo: Steve Doll (www.flickr.com/photos/3rdeyepro/sets/) 
Album Cover Design: John Flaw

released 11 November 2010 
John Flaw - vocals, guitar, ukulele
Emchy - vocals, accordion 
guest musicians:
Ed Ivey - tuba, upright bass
Jim Fourniadis - banjotar, piano