Curtis Eller's American Circus, Curtis Eller

New York’s angriest yodelling banjo player Curtis Eller’s American Circus is a brutish and inelegant rock & roll three piece, featuring drums, bass and banjo, known to haunt the beer halls, burlesque houses and underground theatres of the Eastern Seaboard. Curtis Eller is a banjo-player, songwriter and yodeler. His work has an old-time feel, drawing on influences from the 20s, 30s and 40s era but fused with a modern perspective and one helluva healthy dose of rock ‘n’ roll energy and attitude. His latest album, How to Make It in Hollywood, is a compact collection of glittery show tunes, sentimental tear-jerkers and rock & roll rave-ups whose lyrics are populated with two-bit prize fighters, Hollywood has-beens, lapsed gospel singers and forgotten pop stars. All the ingredients for a perfect Saturday night.