Describe your sound in your own words.
CT: It's reconditioned delta bottleneck, Piedmont blues, Chess-era r'n'b, alt-country, rough diction and throated notes in affected songs played through radio valve amplifiers. For fans of Gram Parsons, Blind Blake, Etta James, Audioslave and Jack White.
How did your band form?
AT: We met about two years ago studying music at university in Bath, England. Me and Chris formed Kill it Kid as a two-piece acoustic act and through various recording sessions, collaborative showcases and grimy shows we came together as a five-piece and were signed to One Little Indian after recording an EP with John Parish (Eels/PJ Harvey/Tracy Chapman) about three months after forming. That summer we threw ourselves across the UK, squeezed in the back of Steph's Skoda, playing anywhere with a stage and clean-ish sheets. Six months later we were recording our debut album in Seattle, Washington with Ryan Hadlock (the Gossip/Johnny Flynn/the Strokes).
What are your musical influences?
CT: American fiction such as Capote, Steinbeck, McCarthy, Ginsberg and Salinger. Old shellac records pressed by Columbia, Okeh, and Victor. The musicians resting in the The Library Of Congress recorded by John and Alan Lomax. The romanticism of the Midwest and the 'Great American Songbook', which I was introduced to by the Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Woody Guthrie and the Bluesbreakers.
How did you come up with your band name?
CT: I first knew it as the name of a ragtime tune recorded by Blind Wille McTell in his last recorded session. A New York barfly would shout "Kill it Kid!" at him as he took to the stage.
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