Name: Crank Stallion
Start: 2024-11-30T20:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-30T23:00:00-05:00
Location: Yonder: Southern Cocktails & Brew

Crank Stallion emerges as an enigmatic trio from Chapel Hill, NC. Offering a genre-blending fusion of avant-garde rock, jazz, funk, and experimental tones. With an instrumentation lineup boasting keyboards, a Hybrid guitar-bass-thing, and drums, our crafted guitars, textured keys, and thunderous rhythms coalesce into a sound defying categorization. Moments of fearless exploration of musical boundaries, combined with musical synergy, result in mesmerizing performances. Crank Stallions style draws comparisons to a unique blend of Tom Waits, Medeski Martin and Wood, Thelonius Monk, Ruben Gonzalez, and Captain Beefheart.
“… With a mix of influences that stir together the outsider, avant sounds of Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits with the groovier, rhythmic sounds of jazz organ trios, a Crank Stallion performance sounds entirely from another time without being able to ascertain if that time is the past or the future. While you might not know precisely what you’ll get from song to song, you know it will be interesting, engaging, and….”