Name: Moe's Alley Presents: The Beat Farmers w/ Dirt Preachers Union
Start: 2025-12-11T20:00:00-08:00
Location: Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz

$Moe's Alley Presents: The Beat Farmers w\/ Dirt Preachers Union$

Moe's Alley presents Roots Rock n' Roll legends The Beat Farmers with special guests Dirt Preachers Union!
Thursday, December 11, 2025
Doors: 7:00 pm / Show: 8:00 pm
$25 in advance / $30 day of the show
21+
*All sales are final
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THE BEAT FARMERS
The Beat Farmers are an American rock & roll band formed in San Diego, California in 1983. They went on to release seven albums before disbanding in 1995, following the untimely death of drummer Country Dick Montana, who died on stage in British Columbia, Canada during a Beat Farmers show.
The band was a big part of the 1980s Roots Rock/Americana movement that included Los Lobos, The Blasters, Lone Justice, Rank & File, Jason & The Scorchers and The Long Ryders, just to name a few. They are continuously mentioned as a major influence on many of the acts on the current American scene.
The original lineup of The Beat Farmers consisted of Jerry Raney, Buddy Blue, Rolle Love and Country Dick Montana. Blue left the band after two albums and was replaced by Joey Harris, who went on to record the next five albums with the band, including what many consider their crowning achievement, The Pursuit Of Happiness.
DIRT PREACHERS UNION
The Dirt Preachers Union is the stripped down, hot-rodded, diesel fueled progeny of Big Medicine Head, featuring the songs of Bob Gemmell and Johnny McGuire. The lineup is Bob Gemmell and Johnny McGuire on guitar and vocals, Dave Murray on bass and Chris Kressman on drums.
With a musical sensibility tethered to the American west, Bob Gemmell has put together a run of cinematic albums that cover a range of influences, but are consistent at the core. Picture a Frederick Remington painting hanging over a smoky bar where Hank Williams leans into a deep conversation with Joe Strummer. Listen to Lonesome Desert Crawl from the first Big Medicine Head album Rex Hotel and try not to think of a big-block Dodge pounding across an empty Nevada highway.