{{Short description|American rock and roll band}} {{Multiple issues| {{Update|date=November 2018}} {{More citations needed|date=November 2019}}}} {{Use mdy dates|date=April 2025}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = The Del-Lords | image = The Del-Lords.jpg |caption=The four original members of The Del-Lords | background = group_or_band | origin = Bronx, New York, United States | genre = Roots rock, Rock and roll, cowpunk | years_active = 1982&ndash;1990, 2008&ndash;present | label = Enigma, EMI America, Restless, Megaforce | associated_acts = The Dictators | website = {{URL|http://del-lords.com/}} | current_members = Eric "Roscoe" Ambel<br />Frank Funaro<br />Steve Almaas | past_members = Manny Caiati<br />Scott Kempner }}

'''The Del-Lords''' are an American rock and roll band that formed in New York City in 1982,<ref name="time86">Cocks, Jay; L., Elizabeth. [https://web.archive.org/web/20121106093739/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,961926-1,00.html Music: Where the Lifeline Is]. ''Time''. August 4, 1986. Retrieved November 9, 2010</ref> founded by The Dictators' guitarist Scott Kempner. The band combined elements of 1960s garage rock with country, blues and folk influences to become one of the early originators of urban, roots-rock. The band members were Scott Kempner, Manny Caiati, Eric Ambel and Frank Funaro.<ref name="Larkin80"/>

==History== Modeled on British bands of the 1960s that used several singers – The Kinks, Beatles, The Who - Kempner's vision was to create an act featuring four singers, that some said was like an "East Coast Beach Boys".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlist/2008/07/scott-kempner-r.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915172331/http://weblogs.variety.com/thesetlist/2008/07/scott-kempner-r.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=September 15, 2008|title=The Set List - Blog on Variety.com|date=September 15, 2008|accessdate=November 2, 2019}}</ref>

The band took its name from Del Lord, director of many early Three Stooges shorts.<ref>Eric Ambel, interviewed on [http://AmericanaMusicShow.com/episode141 The Americana Music Show, episode 141] {{Webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20130628111330/http://americanamusicshow.com/episode141 |date=June 28, 2013 }}, released May 27, 2013</ref> The four Del-Lords studio albums, released between 1984 and 1990 – ''Frontier Days'', ''Johnny Comes Marching Home,'' ''Based on a True Story'' and ''Lovers Who Wander''<ref name="Larkin80">{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Eighties Music|editor=Colin Larkin|editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer)|publisher=Virgin Books|date=2003|edition=Third|isbn=1-85227-969-9|page=153}}</ref> – were released on CD in 2008 by the American Beat label.

Twenty-six years after they began, The Del-Lords began work on new recordings. They released their work in progress, ''Under Construction'' EP of rough mixes on their website on March 9, 2010. Their first four albums were re-released by Collector’s Choice-American Beat with bonus tracks and expanded liner notes.

In February 2010, The Del-Lords played their first live gigs in 20 years, starting with two unannounced gigs in the northeast US. They played a house concert in Rhode Island, and a sneak show at the Lakeside Lounge in New York before embarking on a seven city tour of Spain.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.crackersoul.com/tourdates/2010/02/26/2.shtml |title=CRACKER - Tour Dates |website=Crackersoul.com |date=2010-02-26 |accessdate=2012-08-19 |archive-date=November 21, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121165115/http://crackersoul.com/tourdates/2010/02/26/2.shtml |url-status=dead }}</ref>

On May 14, 2013, ''Elvis Club'', a new album, was released on the GB Music label.

==Discography== ===Studio albums=== *''Frontier Days'' (1984, EMI America) *''Johnny Comes Marching Home'' (1986, EMI America) *''Based on a True Story'' (1988, Enigma) *''Lovers Who Wander'' (1990, Enigma) *''Elvis Club'' (2013, GB Music)

===EPs=== *''Under Construction'' (2010)

===Compilation albums=== *''Get Tough: The Best of the Del-Lords'' (1999, Restless)

===Live albums=== *''Howlin' at the Halloween Moon'' (1989, Restless)

===Singles=== *"Get Tough" / "Pledge of Love" (1985, EMI America) *"How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live" (1985, EMI America) *"Get Tough" (1986, EMI America) *"True Love" (1986, EMI America) *"Soldier's Home" (1986, EMI America) *"Heaven" (1986, EMI America) *"Cheyenne" (1989, Enigma) *"Poem of the River" (1989, Enigma)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== * {{Official website|http://del-lords.com/}}

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