| The Afterparty, Drakkar Sauna, Cheri Woods
The two men in Drakkar Sauna dress well. Not as stiffly as businessmen or as darkly as undertakers. More like the kind of men you'd meet at a church picnic. Multi-instrumentalist Stolz and guitarist Cochran met five years ago, when they worked on the soundtrack to Blood Feud, Cochran's B-movie about black marketeers. Asked if the movie, now out of print, is bad, Cochran answers with a qualified yes: "It's amateurish to a distracting extent, but there are really good moments." Their collaboration outlived the movie and begat Drakkar Sauna, a country band born of an amateur comedy about multiple sclerosis and medical collectibles. For the past five years, Drakkar Sauna has made idiosyncratic folk music incorporating kazoos, whistles, stomps, tambourine shoe, carousel harmophone and barroom piano, completed by the close harmonies of Stolz and Cochran.
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