Best of the Northland

Tin Can Gin

This is one of our more interesting categories. What’s in a band name? A lot. We’ve seen our share of both wonderful and not so great band names (we won’t name names). You, the readers seemed to like the band name Tin Can Gin. It’s fairly simple, yet effective. We talked with Tin Can Gin’s banjo player, Harrison Olk, about the band name, “Our former bass player was serving one night in Duluth and was delivering a lot of gin and tonics to a table and it suddenly hit him that Tin Can Gin was a perfect name for a bluegrass band. We also happen to enjoy gin on the regular, so it worked out quite well.” Tin Can Gin has been gaining popularity and by all accounts its name has a better ring to it than “Cardboard Box Whisky.”

2nd Place: Trampled By Turtles