Demolition String Band

Demolition String Band: Hoboken's other musical export (Jan 2002)

Hoboken plus music typically equals Frank Sinatra. Old Blue Eyes got his start there before moving his act across the river to The Big Apple. And the Demolition String Band followed in his footsteps. Well, not exactly. Neither member of the band's core duo - Elena Skye and Boo Reiners - spent a childhood on the tough streets of New Jersey. She's from Chicago, and he's a North Carolinan. Nor do they require strings and horns to back them up; theirs is a honky-tonk-leaning form of roots music that grew out of a mutual love of bluegrass.  ...