The Dodge Brothers are a British skiffle band from Southampton playing Americana, rockabilly, bluegrass, folk, country and blues music.
The band includes film critic and BBC television presenter Mark Kermode,[1][2] along with Mike and Alex Hammond and Aly Hirji.
The music we play definitely leans toward rockabilly, but the choice of material is somewhat older, our set includes Washboard Sam's Who Pumped the Wind in My Doughnut, which remains one of the greatest and rudest songs ever written.
These films started with White Oak (1921) at The Barbican Centre, followed by Beggars of Life (1928), The Ghost That Never Returns (1929), Hells Hinges (1916) and City Girl (1930).
In 2008 The Dodge Brothers released their second album Louisa and the Devil, the first with the present line-up and featuring mostly original material "written to sound old".
This was part of the ‘Music Migrations’- themed Commissions show, retracing key influential records coming to Liverpool from the U.S. after World War II, inspiring pioneering movements from Merseybeat to Doo Wop to Rock n’ Roll.
Musically directed by Grammy award-winning producer Steve Levine and presented by BBC Radio 2’s Janice Long, the event welcomed a plethora of legendary, as well as emerging artists, who encapsulated these influences and who shared their own sounds.
This song is featured in the movie Midas Man a British biographical film about the life of music entrepreneur Brian Epstein, who managed the Beatles.
The Dodge Brothers are shown as the band that Brain first sees in The Cavern in 1961, to illustrate how early American skiffle sound inspired the young Beatles.