who we are
It’s like a church meet and greet but with more gin and whiskey.
Mimi
Mimi Stafford grew up in south Alabama, moved to Canada and now lives in Nashville, Tennessee.
Cricket
Cricket Rodgers is not a mainstream country pop-star despite what you’ve heard to the contrary. She’s just a good ol’ Seattle girl who headed south when country music overtook the functioning brain cells she had left. Her formative years were spent in Seattle during the formative years of the Seattle “grunge” music scene. She was over it before most of the country knew it started, and was looking for something to resonate against sound of her soul. Turns out twang has the right resonation.
She toured for years throughout Europe and America with a vaudeville act that was met with acclaim everywhere it went. She would have grown old there, but the press unceremoniously revealed her to be affiliated with a vast underground network of Union organizers. The political climate at the time was such that she was shunned and people began boycotting her performances.
After that, she settled in Mexico, living a rather reclusive life for a few years, writing dime-store cowboy novels under an assumed name, the manuscripts of which she threw in the ocean before she left Mexico and headed north again. Very, very far north.
In Alaska, Cricket cooked for oil pipeline workers, and took correspondence courses on the side. It wasn’t long before she had enough cash to clear out of there and began working as nurse in a home for the chronically mentally ill in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. But, eventually, the burden of caring for those whose families had abandoned them began to weigh on her and she set off back to the west coast–California this time.
She was still searching, looking for the sound, the tone that would calm the unease she seemed to always have inside her since she left vaudeville and performing behind.
Hollywood never lived up to how it had been portrayed in movies for Cricket. She worked as make-up artist on lots of big films, but found famous people to be not so glittery and fascinating in person. But when she was trapped by her friends at a Shooter Jennings show and ready to kill herself from boredom, she met Jared Stafford and everything changed.
Jared took Cricket straight home to meet his mama and his sister, Mimi. “Straight home” ended up taking them on a two-week tour through Texas, where they stopped at every honky tonk and roadhouse they passed, often sleeping in the car when they were too drunk to drive. It was pure gluttony: drink, sex, and good music all over Texas. Cricket’s soul swelled with it and Jared’s penchant for mischief seemed charming and boyish.
The young newlyweds were full big ideas and grand plans; sadly, they ended up living in a trailer in Renton, Washington, where things began to deteriorate. The neighbors played The Postal Service and Modest Mouse over and over at top volume, punching a hole in Cricket’s calm. Jared would disappear for days at time, never explaining absences, coming home full of jokes and gifts as if he’d been there and good all along. Again bored, a little lonely in the rain, and unable to stand the man she’d once loved, Cricket filed for divorce and took off to Nashville with Jared’s sister, Mimi.
other folks ’round these parts
Daisy–Miss Daisy passed through Nashville once upon a time, but was asked to leave due to staggering levels of constant sobriety. She was told she could return when she’d properly learned to drink. She’s currently living in the untamed wilds of Washington, paying off her debt to society and taking advantage of the quality coffee to help her recover from all the practice drinking she has to do to get back to Nashville.
Li’l Bug–She’s Cricket’s little sister. Yeah, she is only 14, but she knows more about music than you do, we guarantee it. Hell, she knows more about music than we do.
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