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A Dutch two-man band from Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands. They have had a good live reputation for over fifteen years, with short up-tempo songs which don't last longer than 3 minutes and are made up from an original mixture of folk, bluegrass, pop and country. The members of Pigmeat (not Pig Meat btw) are Jankobus Seunnenga and Sytse Haima (real Frisian names). They play many instruments. At the album "Oomph" (1993) for instance, they played "C & W guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar, bass guitar, banjo (6-str. & 5 string), mandolin, fiddle, bass-drum, big frum, tambourine, tringle,...

Pigmeat Markham was far better known as a comedian than a musician, but in the 1960s he cut a series of novelty records in which he delivered his rhythmic, rhyming routines over frantic backdrops of bluesy funk that not only anticipated hip-hop by at least a decade, but landed him on the pop charts in the process. Born in Durham, NC, on April 18, 1904, as either David Markham or Dewey Martin (he was known to use both, and biographical sources disagree as to his true name), he began his career as a performer in 1917 as a dancer with...

Pigmeat Terry, "Black Sheep Blues" Pigmeat Terry was one of many singers who were "iographical ciphers emerged from their anonymous dark, made 78 rpm recordings, and were promptly swallowed up by darkness again" according to the description John Fahey's Revenant label gave them. AMERICAN PRIMITIVE V. 2 was Fahey's final curatorial effort for the label her started, and it comtained this song, haunted by Pigmeat Terry's otherworldly voice. .