The Bitter Brothers with the Downundermutts

The Bitter Brothers are a family band who write and play traditional and original old time, country, folk, and bluegrass hits; from good time Saturday night songs to Sunday morning repentance and gospel.

Their performances are sometimes comic, theatrical, sometimes deadly serious; their music, an echoed lament from a distant past balanced with a sometime tender optimism for the future. Above all else, their watchwords are variety and entertainment, continually changing the mood and sound over the course of their shows with an eye and an ear bent towards a more entertaining variety than your usual musical fare. The Bitter Brothers offer sometimes guitar songs, sometimes banjo, sometimes accordion, fiddle, ukulele, harmonies and differing vocal arrangements, we may pull out a musical saw, a harmonica, a couple of pieces of metal detritus we found in the road that have that perfect percussive bite when banged together. You never quite know…