Tory Voodoo

The combined talents of guitarist Arvid Smith and classically-trained percussionist and singer Lee Hunter produced Tory Voodoo, probably one of the most exciting duos from the later ’90s. Although rooted in traditional Celtic and American folk music, the duo included a diverse selection of globe music affects. The Tampa Tribune praised them because of their “enchanting, nearly mystical, audio.” Out & About Mag claimed they “present natural folk music, simply as it been around in old European countries and the United kingdom isles before it found America to be part of our very own hill lifestyle. What they perform differently would be to revise it instrumentally for the ’90s with intriguing mixture of electrical and acoustic musical instruments natural folk music might have ever encounter.” Jam journal called them “greatest duo of 1995.” The duo’s first break arrived when their music, “All Our Deals HAVE DIED,” was included on FolkRoots’ 6th compilation Compact disc. When executives from the Binky record label, in Louisiana, noticed the tune, these were therefore impressed which they authorized Tory Voodoo to an archive offer. The duo’s debut recording (Move Down Thy Windowpane, released in 1995) was accompanied by Third Weeks A’lightnin a yr later on. Tory Voodoo transformed its name to Tammerlin in 1998.