Truckstop Honeymoon is American duo Mike West and Katie West (née Katie Euliss)

Katie Euliss learned guitar, piano and bucket bass in the streets of New Orleans. She scammed enough money from tourists to buy Lucky Strikes and smoked oysters for six years.

Then she met Mike West. Part entertainer, part snake oil salesman, West lived by pickin’ banjo and selling cds that he claimed were a curative for hangovers and small-mindedness.

Together they began a perpetual tour of North America, Europe and Australia. They spent their wedding night in the Tiger Truck Stop, somewhere between Lafayette and the Atchafalya Swamp.

The duo has released a series of CDs (and a full-length documentary film) on Baton Rouge label, Squirrel Records. They perform at International folk festivals, rock clubs, neighborhood bars, house concerts and hay barns from Nebraska to Tasmania. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.