About:
Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers[1] is a San Francisco-based folk Americana band featuring husband-and-wife combo Nicki and Tim Bluhm. The band decided to record themselves jamming acoustically to different popular songs while driving from gig to gig in their van, iPhone taped to the dashboard, thereby creating their niche of Youtube they call The Van Sessions[2].
Spread:
After posting their cover of Hall and Oates’ “I Can’t Go For That” on March 23, 2012[3], Hall and Oates tweeted out a link to the video, which sent it viral, garnering over two million views since. Bluhm has even performed the song live with John Oates live on August 13, 2013[4]. The story about their “Van Sessions” has been covered by CBS[5], the Chicagoist[6], the Denver Post[7], and others.
[1]Nicki Bluhm and the Gramblers