Folk Bands and Artists
Bob Collum & the Welfare Mothers
London
Bob Collum & The Welfare Mothers, in their own words: ´alt-country, rock & roll and a smidgen of folk with a potent dose of guilt, a dollop of sin and a drop of salvation´. Bob Collum, who in trading the prairies for the less fetching plains of Britain’s surly southeast. has brought to these shores a tasty, tasteful taste of the music that both he and his native Tulsa, Oklahoma, call home. In Tulsa, though, where everything is big as all outdoors – even indoors – nothing is done small, so on top of his power-pop influenced take on country music Bob has loaded, in a style akin to that of a pioneer with more cargo than wagon, about every last influence likely to be tried by a fella with a taste for audio adventure. Over the years he and his band have shared the stage with everyone ffrom Ron Sexsmith and The Handsome Family to Nikki Sudden and Danny & The Champs