Founded and fronted by singer-guitarist Sean Walsh, The National Reserve mine an archetypal musical seam, marrying gutbucket R&B, Laurel Canyon lyricism, New Orleans funk workouts, late night soul, and bluesy, boozy rock ‘n’ roll to create their own timeless brand of American music. Songs like “Found Me A Woman” and the indelible title track reveal a gifted new tunesmith while masterfully reminding one and all of the simple beauty of a great American bar band – two guitars, organ, bass and drums rocking out in the corner, singing their songs to soundtrack the night.

CC&TheBoys are a Pro Country/Southern Rock Party Band. Doing ALL the hits and sing-along party favorites. You’ve seen them performing across the country in some of country music’s biggest venues...but home base, is Skinny Dennis on Thursday Nights! Looking for a good time, Look no further. Lets Boot, Scoot and Boogie.

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Born and raised in Nashville, TN, Josh Halper has been surrounded by music from a young age. The setting for his youth combined with his being raised by a Deadhead from Queens creates a hodgepodge of musical influence that leads to an exciting and whimsical performance, riding the line between understated beauty and delusional chaos. The show is ideal for anyone in pursuit of musical nuggets, along for a ride of musical exploration and sonic self discovery. Come enjoy selections from a wide range of artists - George Jones to REM, Gram Parsons to Roxy Music.

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Of course, you’re welcome to two-step any ole’ time - but Tuesdays are as good a time as any, and now it’s our dedicated night of toe-tapping and twirling to the best Country & Western Dance music NY has to offer. With pre-show lessons at 8pm from veteran Skinny Dennis dance aficionado, Sara Juran, we invite y’all to put you’re dancing pants on and join us in the fun!

This week’s featured band:

The Slide Stops are a Brooklyn based honky-tonk band influenced by the music of Hank Williams, Bob Wills and the Carter Family. Their sets run the gamut of country standards and original songs that will make you dance and cry!

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The Dang-it Bobbys are the bourbon-soaked brain-child of multi-instrumentalist Kris Bauman and guitarist Luca Benedetti. Formed in 2004, the two Brooklyn based musicians have assembled a project that borrows from classic country music, newer acoustic and electric sounds, and the intricate standards from the golden age of jazz. The result is strikingly original, at once both playful and poignant. Bauman and Benedetti have created a blend of American music that is sometimes quick picking, sometimes blue, and always entertaining.

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Born in California, and spending the last 15 years in Colorado, Nick Dunbar is no stranger to the wild west and the culture that comes with it. Nick’s captivating debut solo album “Little Country” was released in early 2022, and is stacked with some of Colorado’s finest musicians. On the record he creatively intertwines the classic Western swing and Honky Tonk sounds of greats like Lefty Frizzell, Bob Wills and Ernest Tubb, with the country western traditions of Merl Haggard and Willie Nelson. His songwriting is playful and humorous but also honest and cathartic .

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New York City based Star County plays cosmic American music that is steeped in the sounds of folk-rock, country and the American heartland.  Fronted by Ohio-raised Josh Bolin, the band features JP Pacelli (guitar), Rob Hellyer (bass), Szecso "Setch" Szendrody (drums), Mike West (piano).  Their newest release “Only What You Want” is out now.

+ Vinyl Selections from DJ AJ ‘til 3am!

11 years strong at Skinny Dennis, the Friday night rock-n-roll party with The National Reserve is the place to be!

CC&TheBoys are a Pro Country/Southern Rock Party Band. Doing ALL the hits and sing-along party favorites. You’ve seen them performing across the country in some of country music’s biggest venues...but home base, is Skinny Dennis on Thursday Nights! Looking for a good time, Look no further. Lets Boot, Scoot and Boogie.

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SANFORD: is the brainchild of Brooklyn based & South Carolina born musician Jay Sanford. He does all of the writing, arranging, and performing for his recorded music, including previous original releases: “Figured I’d Ask Anyway” and “Anymore”, from his first album The View Changes. Pulling from a wide range of musical influences, SANFORD: curates his live show setlists including originals and covers across genres and decades... he subscribes to the idea that good music is good music… At one of his shows your liable to hear anything from old school country, Americana, classic rock, retro-soul, Grateful Dead jams, deep cuts, singalongs, and even some Zappa scattered in.

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Of course, you’re welcome to two-step any ole’ time - but Tuesdays are as good a time as any, and now it’s our dedicated night of toe-tapping and twirling to the best Country & Western Dance music NY has to offer. With pre-show lessons at 8pm from veteran Skinny Dennis dance aficionado, Sara Juran, we invite y’all to put you’re dancing pants on and join us in the fun!

This Week’s featured Band:

Noah G. Fowler is a songwriter and guitarist now based in Nashville, Tennessee. Drawing influences from his past in Canadian maritime Fiddle jams, smoky Pennsylvania mountain dive bars, underground Allston basement shows, and his present - learning from Nashville’s honky tonk living legends - his sound is a diverse and rich composite of many roots music traditions.

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Affectionately dubbed “The Yodeling Country Bluesman,” ​Vaden has etched his name into the vibrant streets of ​Asheville, North Carolina. His authenticity shines as a ​torchbearer of the classic country tradition, infused with a ​contemporary spark.

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Demolition String Band are longtime mainstays of NYC's country music scene. They’ve released seven albums and have toured the US extensively as well as Ireland, the UK and Europe. With a truly memorable and unique collection of songs, Elena Skye and Boo Reiners and their Demolition String Band have built their reputation slow and steady, mile upon mile. Their sound is timeless. Rustic, taut harmonies woven with tall tales and truth, joy and heartbreak, despair and redemption are all underscored with soulful twang and greasy grooves.

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+ “RONNIE’s ROADHOUSE - a smattering of Country Rock riffs, Honkytonk hits, & Boot Scootin’ Blues from DJ JUKEBOX COWGIRL ‘til 3am

11 years strong at Skinny Dennis, the Friday night rock-n-roll party with The National Reserve is the place to be!

CC&TheBoys are a Pro Country/Southern Rock Party Band. Doing ALL the hits and sing-along party favorites. You’ve seen them performing across the country in some of country music’s biggest venues...but home base, is Skinny Dennis on Thursday Nights! Looking for a good time, Look no further. Lets Boot, Scoot and Boogie.

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Jason Loughlin’s creative guitar playing has supported renowned artists such as Emmylou Harris, Steven Earle, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and Dale Watson. On the release of his debut album, Peach Crate, Loughlin stepped out of the sideman role to prove that he is a formidable front man in his own right. Drawing upon the rich musical roots--the moods and memories--of his childhood days in Florida, Loughlin’s pays homage to many of his guitar heroes- players like Jimmy Bryant, Hank Garland, Danny Gatton and Les Paul--and to the days when the guitar reigned supreme on the airwaves.

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COME CELEBRATE MARDI GRAS with a little Cajun , Zydeco, and 2-step!

Of course, you’re welcome to two-step any ole’ time - but Tuesdays are as good a time as any, and now it’s our dedicated night of toe-tapping and twirling to the best Country & Western Dance music NY has to offer. With pre-show lessons at 8pm from veteran Skinny Dennis dance aficionado, Sara Juran, we invite y’all to put you’re dancing pants on and join us in the fun!

This Tuesday’s featured act is THE RED ACES

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Hailing from Montgomery, AL, JP Harris had long fashioned himself a carpenter who did halfway-decent campfire renditions of old country tunes, but turned suddenly to songwriting in his mid twenties after years without the slightest ambition toward “music business” of any sort. He would assemble a band, trade his work truck for an old Econoline van, and fifteen years would elapse before he would reluctantly add the term “professional” in front of his title of “musician.”

In a musical landscape of period-correct reproduction, “outlaw” internet posturing, and flavor-of-the-month variants on country, “JP Harris Is A Trash Fire” burns bright as a dumpster ablaze in a Walmart parking lot on a moonless night; some will fear it, some will gravitate to its acrid warmth, and most will have no idea what to make of the situation.

Harris has been steadily elbowing the definitive boundaries of “country music” wider with every album, both sonically and lyrically, and his latest piece of self described “Avant-Country” is no exception. Even within the rapidly growing world of “underground” country music, Harris still considers himself an outsider, content to inhabit a gray area where punk rock ethos, folk art aesthetic, and the workingman’s ballad mingle.

When he’s not touring, JP Harris can be found fixing historic houses, riding old motorcycles, or picking through scrap piles for useable refuse.

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Texas native CORY CROSS has been honing his specific brand of country music for over a decade. Getting his start playing guitar in church, Cory began crafting his own songs after being inspired by songwriters like Townes Van Zandt and John Prine. Now making the rounds at dance halls and dives across Texas, as well as sold out shows in Los Angeles and New York City, Cory and his band put on a performance that is equal parts rough-n-rowdy and tenderly intimate. Utilizing classic country instrumentation from steel guitars and fiddle, Cory’s band infuses their style of honky tonk with garage rock energy coming from fuzzy electrics and a thumping rhythm section. The Burden is made up of musicians that each bring their wide and unique influences to create a sound that is both nostalgic and fresh. Cory‘s debut full length album, “There’s More”, is a culmination of years of paying dues and cutting teeth. The fourteen songs are an honest look into the life of a working musician that has lived the words he wrote. Cory Cross and the Burden have played with notable and established acts such as Joshua Ray Walker, Summer Dean, and Jeremy Pinnel. They continue to play regularly around Texas at legendary venues like Continental Club in Austin and the famous Stockyards in Fort Worth, as well as national tours through Los Angeles, Nashville, and New York City.”

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Carrying New York wit down the Santa Fe Trail on his debut solo project, PATTON MAGEE is carving out the next chapter of the Great American Songbook. Born in Texas to Louisiana parents and raised in constant transit alongside nine brothers and sisters, Patton took in the United States through the backseat window of their GMC Savannah passenger van as his family moved from the Gulf Coast to the San Francisco bay, then the Rocky Mountains and finally the Carolinas. Attending college in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina, Patton co-formed rock’n roll band The Nude Party with his new college classmates. Trading that GMC Savannah for a Chevrolet Van, he penned a minor hit that took the band across the country and Europe many times, opening tours for Jack White, The Arctic Monkeys, and Orville Peck, and taking the stage at major festivals like Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, and Austin City Limits. Finally settled a while in New York City, the ultimate respite for all the world’s transients, he is breaking into a new world of Country-Western Americana Rock’n Roll with a true traveler’s voice - invoking the Arizona desert gunfighter ballads of Marty Robbins, the NYC quick fix literary hits of Lou Reed, slinky bayou sounds of Dr John, and center of the USA rock & roll rapscallion-ism of Chuck Berry. Well equipped with timeless tales of heartbreak, death, and dilemma, Patton’s latest stake on songwriting is a fresh buffet of many Americas touching on one plate.

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+ Vinyl Selections from DJ JENNY THUNDERS ‘til 3 am!

11 years strong at Skinny Dennis, the Friday night rock-n-roll party with The National Reserve is the place to be!

Hearts on Fire specializes in ‘90s and ‘00s country hits with a dash of Sheryl Crow and the classics. So if you love anything from Shania to Patsy, make sure to catch them in the NYC area.

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If all you wanna do is have some fun, cruise on down and sing along with a fantastic band fronted by Kacie Jewel Hill - they’ll be playing all your favorite Sheryl tunes, some country classics, & some originals, with some very special guests throughout the night…

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Of course, you’re welcome to two-step any ole’ time - but Tuesdays are as good a time as any, and now it’s our dedicated night of toe-tapping and twirling to the best Country & Western Dance music NY has to offer. With pre-show lessons at 8pm from veteran Skinny Dennis dance aficionado, Sara Juran, we invite y’all to put you’re dancing pants on and join us in the fun!