Lost In the Underground

Sidewalk Surfer

Uncle Frank & the Co-Defendants is an americana, rock n’ roll, spoken word outfit featuring the words and wit of Uncle Frank Lauria.

Uncle Frank spins modern parables with humor, biting satire and sprinklings of pop-culture references that are true to his beatnik roots.

In the late 1950‘s Uncle Frank read poetry in Greenwich Village and uptown at the Seven Arts Coffee Shop with the likes of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and Gregory Corso. Frank credits Kerouac with teaching him how to sleep on a bus (you curl up and wedge your feet against the arm rest).  A best selling author of the Dr. Orient series of fiction, Frank has travelled the world hanging with Paul Bowles in Tangier, William Burroughs, Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithful in New York, and Tom Waits in Jamaica. 

The Co-Defendants are: Dudley Hughes, Jerry Boxley, Chris von Sneidern, and Will Morris.  

Uncle Frank & the Co-Ds