The Wonderful Little Pecan Guys

Southeast Michigan’s the beautiful Little Pecan Men’ identities and whereabouts remained key throughout their short careers. They initial appeared in public areas in 1999 at several folk shows throughout the Ann Arbor region. The quintet dressed up in foam suits which were likely to resemble pecans and added dark brown tights and fedoras when “from the city.” They might go from membership to club searching for local vocalist/songwriters to strike, leading to full-blown brawls with both viewers and music artists that still left three people inactive and one music group member blind in a single eye. After many run-ins using the specialists — these were imprisoned over 25 situations but hardly ever arraigned — the Pecan Men started playing their very own displays, but their severe a cappella shows gained over few however the most masochistic. In 2001 they produced their 1st — in support of — record, Nutcrackers & Facebreakers, a 35-minute assortment of wordless chants, expletive-filled field hollers, and popular Oscar award approval speeches arranged against familiar high-school and collegiate battle songs. Recorded instantly in the group’s huge underground hideout, the recording never materialized because of lack of curiosity from both band and its own small military of followers, leading to skepticism from critics and market insiders concerning whether it actually existed. Nevertheless, in 2003 a TDK SA90 cassette tape surfaced in the cellar of the duplex on Ann Arbor’s western side. Encased inside a muddy Crown Royal handbag, seriously water-damaged, and emblazoned with a graphic that bore the irrefutable markings of the pecan, Nutcrackers & Facebreakers surfaced through the silverfish-infested floors of the Section 8 local rental with all 12 paths intact, and premiered via the Livingston Region indie label No Bitings in Oct 2004. THE BEAUTIFUL Little Pecan Men were last observed in 2001 in the Ypsilanti Farmer’s Marketplace.