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Pokey LaFarge (Andrew Heissler) was born on 26 June, 1983 in Bloomington, Illinois, U.S., is an American musician. Discover Pokey LaFarge's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 40 years old?

Popular As Andrew Heissler
Occupation Musician, singer-songwriter, actor
Age 40 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 26 June, 1983
Birthday 26 June
Birthplace Bloomington, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality United States

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His wife is Addie Hamilton (married 2023 - present)

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1983

Pokey LaFarge (born Andrew Heissler, June 26, 1983) is an American musician and singer-songwriter.

LaFarge was born Andrew Heissler in Bloomington, Illinois.

The nickname "Pokey" was coined by his mother, who would scold him to hurry when he was a child.

LaFarge took an interest in history and literature during his childhood, and was greatly influenced by his grandfathers.

One was a member of the St. Louis Banjo Club who gave him his first guitar and tenor banjo.

The other, an amateur historian, taught him about the American Civil War and World War II.

In his early teens, he discovered an appreciation for older blues musicians like Skip James, Robert Wilkins, and Sleepy John Estes.

After hearing Bill Monroe at age 16, LaFarge traded the guitar his grandfather had given him for a mandolin.

He adopted the name "Pokey LaFarge" because it sounded like what he was looking for musically during the time he was moving around the country.

2001

After graduating from University High School in 2001, at the age of seventeen he hitchhiked to the west coast and earned a living as a busker on streets, sidewalks, and pedestrian malls.

He met Ryan Koenig and Joey Glynn of the St. Louis band The Rum Drum Ramblers while he was playing on a street in Asheville, North Carolina.

2006

LaFarge independently released his first album, Marmalade, in 2006.

During the same year, he toured with The Hackensaw Boys.

2008

Koenig and Glynn began playing with LaFarge in 2008, and the addition of Adam Hoskins in 2009 resulted in the formation of the South City Three.

His second solo album, Beat, Move & Shake, was released in 2008 by Big Muddy Records.

2009

Riverboat Soul, the first album with The South City Three, was recorded in July 2009 at the Nashville studio of producer Phil Harris using vintage instruments and electronics.

2010

It was released in 2010 by Free Dirt Records and won the Independent Music Award for Best Americana Album.

2011

The group's second album, Middle of Everywhere, won the same award in 2011.

The band released Chittlin' Cookin' Time in Cheatham County produced by Jack White for his label Third Man Records.

White asked the band to collaborate with him on the song "I Guess I Should Go to Sleep" for his album Blunderbuss, followed by opening for him on tour.

2013

In 2013, LaFarge signed with Third Man Records and released his first album on the label, the eponymously titled Pokey LaFarge, accompanied by a larger band that included Chloe Feoranzo, Matthew Meyer, and T.J. Muller.

2015

During the next year, he signed with Rounder Records and released Something in the Water in April 2015.

2017

In 2017 his album Manic Revelations was released on Rounder Records.

2020

On January 22, 2020 LaFarge announced the release of a new album called Rock Bottom Rhapsody which was released on April 10 on the New West label.

LaFarge released his seventh studio album, In the Blossom of Their Shade, on October 15, 2021.

The group is thought to be "artfully dodgy ambassadors for old-time music, presenting and representing the glories of hot swing, early jazz and ragtime blues" who have "made riverboat chic cool again."

His repertoire consists of a mix of Americana, early jazz, ragtime for string instruments, country blues, Western swing, Vaudeville, and Appalachian folk.

Musicians that have influenced him include Howlin' Wolf, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe, Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies, Modern Mountaineers, Sleepy John Estes, Henry Townsend, Frank Fairfield, Fats Waller, Emmett Miller, Marc Bolan, Peter Lafarge, and Willie Dixon.

LaFarge married singer Addie Hamilton in Camden, Maine on September 29th, 2023.