Peddler's French

Philadelphia Phil ~ Matt Scutchfield ~ Rusty Humphrey ~ Danny Hargrove

Chili Beans, Beer & Acoustic Guitars

It all started in the winter of 1975 at Old Lady Faibane's Housekeeping Cottages in the Poconos

A twenty year old Philadelphia scene poet and his acoustic guitar-picking friends went on a getaway to the mountains. A weekend became a week when deep snow closed the roads.

There was homemade chili, cases of Old Latrobe, and many a song to sing. Strumming away for hours, the musicians inspired the young poet. He asked them to show him something on the guitar, learning his first licks on an old Gibson 12-string. A few days later he bought a second-hand acoustic, tossed it in the back of a beat-up '63 VW Beetle, and left for Mardi Gras.  When he got back five months later Phil knew a handful of chords and a bunch of Hank Williams tunes. It wasn't long before he was writing songs and singing to folks all around the city. 

Since that time he's performed from Key West to Canada, California to New England. It's been a minute since a surprise blizzard and a good friend's guitar got him started, but Philadelphia Phil just keeps singing, playing, writing, recording and performing. And like the one-of-a-kind tone of a vintage instrument, his songs just get sweeter and sweeter with each change of season.