Balthrop, Alabama Press Matter
Band Bio
You may have heard that the town of Balthrop was founded in 1847 in Alabama’s Iron Belt. You might also have heard that Balthrop was once a booming steel town, but these days it has relaxed into an easier pace, providing a home to a close-knit community of shopowners, innkeepers, handymen, farmers, students, and a milkman. They do a pretty good job of keeping each others’ secrets. Or so you may have heard.
In fact, the band Balthrop, Alabama was formed in early 2006 in Brooklyn, New York by Alabama-born songwriter-siblings Pascal and Lauren Balthrop and eight or nine of their musically-inclined neighbors. They get together every so often to sing songs about dead people in love.
Press Photos
Ensemble - photo by Bernie DeChant
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On the Stairs - photo by Bernie DeChant
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Cast and Crew
Jemison Thorsby - Pascal Balthrop - guitar, vocals
Georgiana Starlington - Lauren Balthrop - keyboards, vocals
Douglas Snead - Chris Buckridge - bass, alto saxophone
Benton Whitehall - Matt Moon - tenor saxophone
Miss 12-Year-Old Babbie Jackson - Annie Nero - bass
Clanton “Lake” Mitchell - Josh Kaufman - electric guitar, keyboards
Luverne Dozier - Therese Cox - accordion, vocals
Grant Fyffe - Kyle Fischer - lap steel
Titus Falkner - Jason Lawrence - drums
Cotton Tyler Guin - Andrew Vladeck - banjo
Other Townfolk
Elba Millry - Ana Mo Shoshin - board of tourism
Silas Newbern - Bernie DeChant - camera
Toxey Goodwater - Michael Arthur - ink & paper
Elmore Billingsley - Geoff Mann - former mayor and drummer
Grace Garland - Deb Klowden - madam
Maylene Turner - Maria Cataldo - moving pictures
Florence Leighton - Jane Srisarakorn - gossip
Theodore Dawes - Paul Cordes Wilm - music idearist
Brewton Repton - Peter Wilm - songster
Uriah Banks - David Nagler - visiting lawyer, drummer
Dora Parrish - Izzi Weber - delinquent
Searcy Manningham - Brian Kantor - played drums that one time
Beatrice Bon Air - Mary Gibbons - librarian
Bessemer Lipscomb - Tom Ward - wandering sage
Lincoln Steele - Isaac Wolf-Tanner - wiseacre
Selma Pennington - Jess Weixler - starlet
Downloadable Songs
Explode [ 3mb MP3 ]
Music Videos
Please visit our music videos page.
Media
mymixtapes.org You have to dig to find the album review, but it sure is a good one. Click on Album Reviews in the sidebar and then you’ll see the review of “Our Big Plans & Your Little Town”.