Biography
Based in Seattle Washington, The Filthy Whores were a jazzy lounge quartet band playing music with a sultry cabaret feel that infused elements of Americana and featured upright bass, guitar, vocals and drums. Melodica were also occasionally included in the band's predominately original material set. The Filthy Whores are a "sexy, fun and very talented lounge act, something you can't say about most people under that heading." (Greg Lundgren, The Hideout) If Patsy Cline opted for the lounge and cabaret circuit instead of Nashville, Billie Holiday had Tenacious D as her backup musicians and Dean Martin and The Andrews Sisters got it on and had three unruly children it would feel a little like The Filthy Whores. Although the group's existence was brief, they gained a loyal following and were known to be quite a crowd pleaser in their live shows. The group was conceived and birthed in the summer of 2003 as a duet. After playing for a year as a trio, The Filthy Whores became a quartet in the summer of 2006. The group disbanded in late 2007 before the official release of their self titled debut album but the MP3s are still available for purchase on Myspace. Miss April is now among the Fog People.
The Filthy Whores name is an analogy - to the manual laborers, to those whose day is measured by a timeclock, to those who do the gritty, unglamorous modest wage work in our society - as opposed to the literal gender oriented meaning.
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