Daddy, No! busking on an Atlanta sidewalk with guitars, a tambourine, an open case, and a handmade Daddy, No! sign.

Somewhere in North Alabama

Daddy, No!

Pretty enough to invite home. Mean enough to burn the barn.

  • Country-Goth
  • Psychobilly
  • Dark Americana
  • Outlaw Twang
  • Sister Orbit
Listen: Daddy No Catalog Meet the band

Live

Live: There Was

Cara sings There Was, with Moss from the Botheads on drums.

Videos

Watch on YouTube

Data Center. Watch on YouTube, or watch the Short.
Billy Sly. The Daddy, No! Girls try to help teach our line dance. Try. It's okay, Uncle Moss says they did great. Watch on YouTube
Looking. Cara on lead. Watch on YouTube
Just Me. Nicole on lead. Watch on YouTube
I Hate Your Truck. Marlee on lead. Watch on YouTube
There Was, live at the Bug Tussle VFW. Watch on YouTube
No to the Pole, live at the Pine County Fair. Watch on YouTube

The Story

Named after the answer nobody wanted.

It started a couple doors over from the garage studio where The Botheads leave the tape running. Different door. Same freight-train hum.

Four women kept showing up after bar close with a pair of Strats, a borrowed upright that never stayed in tune, and a shared refusal to smile for free. Somebody's uncle kept asking when they'd play something nice. They named the band after the answer.

Cara, Marlee, Susan, and Nicole are the sister orbit to The Botheads. Same hometown gravity. Different blood. The music is the Daddy No EP on The Botheads Spotify, and a new Daddy, No! album is on the way.

Home
North Alabama
Room
Garage orbit
Members
Four
Mood
Mean-pretty

The Band

Four women. One hard no.

Cara Vale laughing outdoors in a black cowboy hat and tank top, plaid shirt tied at her waist, floral tattoos on her arms.

Cara Vale

Lead vocals · Rhythm guitar

Counts the band in and refuses to count them out. Writes lyrics on borrowed church bulletins and sings like she's daring the room to flinch. The plaid is a family heirloom she cut shorter on purpose.

Marlee Boone sitting with her bass in a rehearsal room, black hat, curly red hair, frayed jeans.

Marlee Boone

Bass · Low harmonies

Holds the low end and the stare. Plays bass like a threat. Never stays in one county long, and she goes quiet when a deputy walks in. The band does not ask. When Cara goes sharp, Marlee goes lower.

Susan Crowe with a sunburst Strat and checkered strap, black hat, bangs, floral ink on her right forearm.

Susan Crowe

Lead guitar

Sunburst Strat, checkered strap, notes that sting. Learned leads off stolen vinyl and never gives them back. People ask if the lace is ironic. She does not answer questions about lace.

Nicole Hart on a porch with her white Strat, short platinum bob, red bandana, freckles, denim vest.

Nicole Hart

Rhythm guitar · Harmonies

White Strat to Susan's sunburst: twin engines, different fog. Red bandana non-negotiable. Posed for a 2019 tool calendar and will punch you if you ask her to sign it. Stacks harmonies under Cara like a second warning shot. Secretly learning drums after hours, still too shy to play them in front of anybody.

Photos

Sass, swagger, and a hard no.

Sassy, in your face country girls with real talent and a hard edge. Unlike the Botheads, these four love the stage.

Daddy, No! busking on an Atlanta sidewalk with guitars, tambourine, an open case, and a cardboard Daddy, No! sign.
Busking for gas money in Atlanta.
Marlee laughing with friends at a bike rally
Marlee and the rally crowd.
Cara and Susan on the stairmasters while Nicole snaps the photo
Leg day. Nicole on camera duty.
Cara, Marlee, Susan, and Nicole laughing on a lake dock with their feet in the water.
Off the clock at the lake.
Cara, Susan, and Nicole on a pickup tailgate while Marlee walks up the street laughing.
Tailgate break before the next town.
Nicole Hart skating at a roller rink in her red bandana.
Nicole at the rink. Bandana non-negotiable.
Cara and Marlee screaming and laughing in the front row of a roller coaster on the big drop.
Cara and Marlee on the big drop.
Cara, Marlee, Susan, and Nicole giggling and goofing around in front of the old Boobie Trap club sign.
Somebody dared them. Nobody regrets it.
Daddy, No! playing a dim VFW hall in Bug Tussle, Alabama, under service flags and photos of local veterans.
VFW gig. Moss from the Botheads on drums!
Nicole Hart grinning on a lake dock, holding up a largemouth bass she just caught.
Nicole caught dinner. Ask her about it.
Susan Crowe posing for a calendar shot in a garage workshop, holding a giant wrench, in a black tube top and denim shorts.
Susan teased Nicole about the calendar picture.
Marlee Boone on a motorcycle in a Daddy, No! club vest.

Discography

Daddy No: live on Spotify

Daddy No (2024 EP) is five tracks on The Botheads Spotify. Sister orbit under The Botheads. A new Daddy, No! album is coming.

Open Daddy No on Spotify Artist page The Botheads site

Live

They'll play a room
if the room can take it.

Honky-tonks, basements, sidewalks, and the occasional garage show with The Botheads. No soft-ticket festival circuit. If the flyer looks too polite, they didn't approve it. Dates land when they land. Watch the socials.