Get to Know: THE SKIPPERDEES

Posted: August 29, 2012 | Author: butchieblog | Filed under: Brilliant Folks I've Interviewed!, Music, Southern Musicians - Georgia, Southern Musicians - Tennessee, Veg Restaurants I love | Tags: Banksy, Captain Underpants, Catherine Backus, David Rawlings, Emily Backus, Fried Green Tomatoes, Gillian Welch, Grease, Howard Finster, ilovemountains.org, Jill Andrews, sleater-kinney, The Grit, The Skipperdees, The Spice Girls, The Tomato Head, Tig Notaro, To Kill a Mockingbird, Vincent Cassel, Wendell Berry | Leave a comment »

The Skipperdees (twin sisters Emily and Catherine Backus) hail from Oak Ridge, TN, a town mentioned in the 1989 film Fat Man and Little Boy which featured Paul Newman with a mustache. They write sad songs but are happy people. They are Capricorns and vegetarians. Come say hey at theskipperdees.com. or find them in one of the seven Waffle House locations in their current home of Athens, GA. The ‘dees will be playing Eddie’s Attic > on Tuesday, September 4th at 8 pm.

Name

THE SKIPPERDEES  - Catherine Backus and Emily Backus

Occupation

Students??? (Not really making  a living doin’ the singin and strummin thing right now)

C: EMILY REFUSES TO LET CATS INTO OUR APARTMENT so we are petless.

E: Cats are vile, fickle creatures. I stand by my decision.

C: I’m gonna go with Fried Green Tomatoes because I’ve really been trying to channel TOWANDA lately (also I will watch that film at any and all times you’rejustabeecharmeridgiethreadgoode)

E: Mystic Pizza (I’m Kat, the frumpy dreamer) meets  Drop Dead Gorgeous (I so badly want to be Allison Janney’s chain smoking Loretta)

C: Grease

E: THE SOUND OF MUSIC (Catty is clearly wrong.)

C : To Kill A Mockingbird

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