About

Crank Stallion emerges as an enigmatic trio from Chapel Hill, NC. Offering a genre-blending fusion of avant-garde rock, jazz, funk, and experimental tones. With an instrumentation lineup boasting keyboards, an 8 string Hybrid guitar-bass, and drums, our crafted guitars, textured keys, and thunderous rhythms coalesce into a sound defying categorization. 

 “With a mix of influences that stir together the outsider, avant sounds of Captain Beefheart and Tom Waits with the groovier, rhythmic sounds of jazz organ trios, a Crank Stallion performance sounds entirely from another time without being able to ascertain if that time is the past or the future.” The Local Music Spot

Jon Dowse - Keys / Bass

Ben Maschal - Drums / Bass

Wes Lambe - 8 string Guitars / Bass

 krangk NOUN

  A bent part of an axle or shaft or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft by which circular motion is imparted to or received from the shaft or by which reciprocating motion is changed into circular motion or vice versa 

  stal·lion[ˈstalyən]   NOUN

An adult male horse.