Rock & Roll | The Buffalo Skinners

Roots-rock & roll group The Buffalo Skinners began life in 2010 as a busking band in Scarborough, selling their self-produced analogue EP from an accordion case. The band, then all acoustic and made up of violin, accordion, drums, guitars and five vocals have been in an ongoing process of evolution and expansion since; acoustic guitars have turned into valve driven electrics, accordions have met with the warmly Fender Rhodes, earthy violins have found their way to tube amps, and vocal harmonies have tempered into more refined and considered structure.

‘Picking Up What You’re Putting Down’ is the latest expression of this sonic evolution and marks a headlong dive into electric territories previously hinted at in moments of 2016’s 'Cease Your Dreaming.’ The album is a transatlantic production, partly recorded and produced by original band member Lawrence Menard at Mantle Records in California, and partly in the UK with engineers David Haynes and Robin Downe of Yellow Arch Studios in Sheffield.

‘Picking Up What You’re Putting Down’ is the first to feature Lawrence since 2014’s album ‘The Other Nine-to-Five’ and includes the single ‘Washing My Hands.’ The record’s penultimate track ‘Regret, Regret’ (an 8 minute long, many versed musing on the song’s title subject) includes cameos from members of Holy Moly & The Crackers and Rob Heron and The Pad Orchestra.

The Buffalo Skinners' adventures have taken them all over (USA, Ireland, France, Germany, Norway) and they've performed at some of the most renowned music festivals in the UK (Glastonbury, BBC Radio 2 Live in Hyde Park, Cambridge Folk Festival, Tramlines, Deer Shed) Their music has earned the attention, air-play and esteem of many high profile BBC radio DJs including Steve Lamacq, Bob Harris, Cerys Matthews, Janice Long, Paul Jones and Dermot O'Leary. Their new album ‘Picking Up What You're Putting Down’ was released March 2024.

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