Biography
3 October 1950, Vienna, Austria, d. 17 April 2008, Newport Bech, California, USA. Although not born in the USA, this country singer and accordion player was raised in Arizona and southern California and spent 10 years working in Los Angeles shipyards. He began performing in the 60s with his music evolving into a honky tonk mixture of Cajun, Tex-Mex, rock ‘n’ roll and western swing, with his rough, world-weary croak providing the perfect vocal foil. Gaffney’s songs were full of stories, characters and unusual scenarios, such as the fear of a gangland reprisal in ‘The Gardens’ and the drunken soldier remembering his lost friend in Vietnam. He was assisted on record by his band the Cold Hard Facts and musicians such as Dave Alvin and Jim Lauderdale. On 1995’s Loser’s Paradise he duetted with Lucinda Williams on a cover version of the Intruders’ ‘Cowboys To Girls’. In 2005, Gaffney teamed up with Dave Gonzalez of the...
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