Rose's Pawn Shop
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Rose's Pawn Shop is an Americana
Americana (music)
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, bluegrass
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, rock
Rock music
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, rockabilly
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 and country
Country music
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 band from Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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, California
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. Their debut album The Arsonist was released in May 2006. The band tours extensively several times each year throughout the United States.

Their second album Dancing On The Gallows was released on June 8th, 2010

Formation

Formed in August 2005, Rose's Pawn Shop is a five-piece band consisting of:
  • Paul Givant - Lead vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    , Guitar
    Guitar
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     & Banjo
    Banjo
    In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

  • Tim Weed - Fiddle
    Fiddle
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    , Mandolin
    Mandolin
    A mandolin is a musical instrument in the lute family . It descends from the mandore, a soprano member of the lute family. The mandolin soundboard comes in many shapes—but generally round or teardrop-shaped, sometimes with scrolls or other projections. A mandolin may have f-holes, or a single...

     & Vocals
  • John Kraus - Banjo
    Banjo
    In the 1830s Sweeney became the first white man to play the banjo on stage. His version of the instrument replaced the gourd with a drum-like sound box and included four full-length strings alongside a short fifth-string. There is no proof, however, that Sweeney invented either innovation. This new...

    , Mandolin, Electric Guitar & Vocals
  • Stephen Andrews - Upright Bass
  • Christian Hogan - drums
    Drum kit
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Former Members:
  • Sebastian St. John - Fiddle
    Fiddle
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    , Mandolin
    Mandolin
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    , Accordion
    Accordion
    The accordion is a box-shaped musical instrument of the bellows-driven free-reed aerophone family, sometimes referred to as a squeezebox. A person who plays the accordion is called an accordionist....

    , Bouzouki
    Bouzouki
    The bouzouki , is a musical instrument with Greek origin in the lute family. A mainstay of modern Greek music, the front of the body is flat and is usually heavily inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The instrument is played with a plectrum and has a sharp metallic sound, reminiscent of a mandolin but...

    , Greek Lyra & Vocals
  • Bill Clark - Banjo, Pedal Steel, Guitar & Vocals
  • Derek Asuan-O'Brien - Upright & Gut Bucket Basses
    Bass (instrument)
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  • Derek Swenson - drums
    Drum kit
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     & Vocals
  • Dave Weinstein - Original Drummer, left the band to pursue a modeling
    Model (person)
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     career
  • Ulf Geist - Drums


They have also recorded and performed with: "Soda"- Banjo, Guitars and Vocals, Jimmy Stelling of The Hackensaw Boys
The Hackensaw Boys
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, Wayne Hancock
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, Junior Brown
Junior Brown
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, Flogging Molly
Flogging Molly
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, Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
Th' Legendary Shack Shakers
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, The Scotch Greens, Jack White
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 and The Raconteurs
The Raconteurs
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, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals, Ghostland Observatory
Ghostland Observatory
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, Blues Traveler
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, DeVotchka
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, Old Crow Medicine Show
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, Levon Helm
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, Blue Rodeo
Blue Rodeo
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, Conor Oberst and the Mystic River Band, Railroad Earth
Railroad Earth
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, The Sadies
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, and The Duhks
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, and many others.

In August 2011 the band signed with Paradigm Talent Agency
Paradigm Talent Agency
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 for touring representation.

Rose's Pawn Shop currently tours extensively throughout North America and Canada.

Awards

In 2006 Rose's Pawn Shop was awarded the 2006 Best Band in the West title in the Billboard Magazine/Disc Makers
Disc Makers
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 Independent Music World Series. They were also selected as Amoeba Records homegrown artist of the month for June 2006. Following these awards Rose's Pawn Shop embarked on a three month cross-country tour.

Discography

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|valign="top"|Album:
|valign="top"|The Arsonist
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|valign="top"|Label:
|valign="top"|Self-released
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|valign="top"|Released:
|valign="top"|May 23, 2006
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|valign="top" colspan="2"|
{|
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Track listing:
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|valign="top"|1. The Arsonist
2. Funeral Pyre
3. Deep Red Clay
4. One-Man Show
5. Lone Rider
6. Long Way to Fall
7. Reckoning
8. My Old Valentine
9. Down the Line
10. Blood Running River


{|
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|valign="top"|Album:
|valign="top"|Dancing On The Gallows

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|valign="top"|Label:
|valign="top"|Self-released
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|valign="top"|Released:
|valign="top"|June 8th, 2010
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|valign="top" colspan="2"|
{|
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|Track listing:
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|valign="top"|1. Dancing On The Gallows
2. Danger Behind The Wheel
3. The Well
4. Pine Box
5. Ball Of Flames
6. Patiently
7. The Bed In Which You Lie
8. Straw Man
9. Strangers
10. One Last Glass Of Whiskey
11. The Garden
12. Debt Collector
|}
|}

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