SWBMAI announces one of the country’s best old time and dance bands as a new member band. New Bad Habits plays traditional tunes from the great string bands of the 1920s and 1930s, as well as original music honoring the same tradition. Hailing from the states of Wisconsin and Missouri, the members of New Bad Habits come together in a confluence of musical styles that is pure heartland America.

Members of the New Bad Habits are recent Wisconsin immigrant and fiddle extraordinaire Lynn “Chirps Smith”, Soldier’s Grove tomato-growing and flood surviving resident Tim Foss also on fiddle, art collecting and beret-wearing Dave Landreth playing clawhammer banjo, gourd banjo-building Andy Gribble on the guitar, and always smiling and cute as a pea clogger and caller Dot Kent.

I saw NBH play a concert and a dance at the MBOTMA Winter Weekend and it was great fun. They are both a musician’s and a dancer’s favorite! I look forward to seeing them at Larryfest again this year, and wherever else they show up in the region this summer.