The True Story of Chaos Folk and Cocaine Fairies

Gather 'round young children, and I'll tell you a tale about the emergence of Chaos Folk.   It wasn't invented.  You couldn't even say it was discovered or stumbled upon.  If you're asking how Cocaine Fairies chose Chaos Folk, you've got the question backwards.  Having lain with the goddesses of drinkin' songs, Rumple Minze, mosh pits, tropical depressions, glasspacks with no converters, Black Sabbath and tractor tire bonfires, Chaos Folk feared the conception of an offspring more powerful than itself and swallowed the goddesses.  But Chaos Folk was too late.  Cocaine Fairies sprang fully formed from the head of Chaos Folk, armed with two banjos and clad in the armor of "All Too Well (10 Minute Version)," landing in the oft-traversed but frequently overlooked hamlet of Columbia, South Carolina.  A path was set.  

Cocaine Fairies set out to exercise the prerogatives of Chaos Folk, swearing off drums, electric instruments, and overdubs with the understanding that the dictates of Chaos Folk can only be fulfilled through acoustic instruments, the voices of its vessels, and single takes.  Acoustic guitars with broken pickups and often broken strings; harmonicas with holders that won't stay in place; banjos that have had their fifth string tuning pegs pulled out with pliers to be better played left-handed and upside down; uke basses with strings that haven't been changed in two years:  these are the tools of Cocaine Fairies, as they are the tools of Chaos Folk.  These implements are utilized in sacred rituals through which the essence of Chaos Folk is invoked by the screams and ragged harmonies of its shamans.

While Chaos Folk surely manifests itself in a variety of forms, on this plane and in others, Cocaine Fairies is its most robust expression in this realm.  Chaos Folk makes itself known through its Cocaine Fairies, and Cocaine Fairies in turn do its bidding.  The fruits of this endeavor -- the Valentine's DUI Blues and One Two-Ways singles; the split LP Cowboys & Cocaine with known Chaos Country practitioner and stepsister Cowboy Kerouac -- are plenty, and they are sweet.  But the most succulent fruit has yet to ripen.  It has been prophesied that the most fully-realized incarnation of this divine communion, the Chaos Folk LP, will materialize in the Year of our Lord 2024.

Chaos Folk, thy will be done.