T&A is not what you might think! Or maybe it is, if you think "sultry bluegrass-influenced Americana with a punk twist." T&A actually stands for founding members Traci Oklahoma and Angel X-Stacy, who played for a while as an acoustic singer-songwriter duo. Angel is a punk goddess with a rich, velvety resonance and classic country style; Traci is a redneck who can't sing the songs in the shriveled-up little black thing that used to be her heart. From coming-of-age tales of the New/Old South to hearbreak to hopeful in love (OK, mostly heartbreak! But this is country music, folks!), the band's original tunes are now played by a full band including guitar, upright bass, drums, banjo, lap steel, and harmonica. Dance, brawl, f@%ing swing - this is not the soundtrack for doing heroin in a bathtub!

This article below by Emily Park c/o UrbanMoto Magazine:
T&A performs original, alternative, country music and started out as an acoustic duo in 2001. They formed after songwriter, Tracy Burch, spotted Angelique X, in the country band The East Bay Drifters at the Bottom of the Hill. It was immediately apparent that the buxom, tattooed singer had the powerhouse, vocal styling and the striking looks to command an appreciative audience for Tracy’s music. Tracy couldn’t sing (and still can’t,) but Angel sure can (and how!) It took only a few shots of tequila for Tracy to summon up the courage to proposition Angel with an offer she couldn’t refuse: to become the better half of T&A. Tracy is a genuine redneck from Duncan, Oklahoma who, at age 10, wrote her first musical composition on the guitar. It was a love song to her dad’s ’56 Chevy. She naturally turned to bluegrass and country music in an attempt to heal the pain inflicted by her first career as a children’s beauty pageant loser. Inspired by the Beverly Hillbillies, she picked up the banjo under the initial instruction of her Uncle Pee Wee and later studied with Alan Munde, “the best-banjo-player-ever-in-the-whole-wide-world.” She earned her chops performing on stage with the Bluegrassettes and grew up jamming all night long at festivals in Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas. No songs were written about those times, but they live on in the memories of the many teenage girls who were both mesmerized and terrorized by Tracy’s fancy finger pickin’. When the glamour of the bluegrass scene faded and the Baptist virgins lost their charm, Tracy embraced the sex and drugs of rock and roll, moved to San Francisco and became the big-city, playboy known as “Tracy Oklahoma.” Bands she has played in here include: Mermaid Tattoo, The Giblet Dribblers, The Kuntry Kunts, Saturday Morning Specials and the Crosstops. She has been a guest, recording artist with Violet Discord, Crosley Field, Apartment 9 and Wilson Gil and the Willful Sinners. Her song “El Salvador Dolly Parton” was included in the documentary film Our Lady of Tamale by Cecil B. Feeder and she played lead guitar on the original, production soundtrack for Prey for Rock ‘n’ Roll by Sheri Lovedog. Having plied her trade in rock, punk and country bands, Tracy’s partnership with Angel now reflects all of these influences while remaining true to her bluegrass roots. Angel, is a Bay Area native and well-known, veteran of the local music scene. Recognizable as the lead singer of Venus Bleeding, a band she founded and fronted for 11years, she is a wildly energetic and impressively animated performer, truly possessed by the spirit of punk. The rich character and resonance of her voice is also remarkably well suited to channeling the heartbreak that runs in her veins via family ties to country music luminaries Gene Autry and Ernest Tubb. Angel currently also sings with the Charm School Dropouts, a tongue-in-cheek stab at early 80’s punk and her diverse talents are showcased in the one-of-a-kind, anarchist, vaudeville act Shadow Circus Creature Theater. After two years of barstool negotiations T&A became a threesome by adding a drummer to the mix in late 2005. The dapper Dr. Dane Whitaker, formerly of Dirtbox and 3-Ball, and current member of the original, rock band The Cruel and the Kind, now holds down the rhythm section, along with recent addition, Hans Winold on the upright bass. Keepin’ it in the family Tracy’s girlfriend “Emmy Lee” Park adds harmony with additional back up on the vocals from Angel’s husband Dave Stacy, guitarist in T&A’s newly expanded line-up. On occasion, T&A is also joined by Drew Barrington on the harmonica. Keep an ear to the ground for news of upcoming gigs and the yet-to-be-announced date of T&A’s cd release party.