Smokestack Lightning

Smokestack Lightning started over a decade ago at Pitt in the History Department as a band that re-created the songs of historical movements and peoples, like blues, labor songs, civil rights anthems, and immigrant ballads. As the band evolved, adding and changing members and repertoire, they kept a focus on songs of the working life and environmental change – but they opened up to arranging and playing favorite songs from a variety of bands and singers they admired as well as originals by band members.