The Smoke Eaters are Diamond Dave Russell and a menagerie of musical miscreants.

They come by their hard-living sound honestly, with each band member carrying their own Canadian road performance pedigree. The Smoke Eaters unique blend of garage county and dive bar honky-tonk continues a uniquely Peterborough-area lineage of rough-hewn music that runs from Ronnie Hawkins and the Hawks to Washboard Hank and Reverend Ken, to a whole new generation of artists that grew up in this legendary scene.

And like those artists before them, their music speaks to the far-flung corners of the map where other artists often fear to tread.