The Devil Makes Three toys with the boundaries of acoustic music, mixing styles from the ragtime and country music of the '20s and '30s with the rock and roll and punk music of their adolescence. With influences as varied as Steve Earle, the Reverend Gary Davis, Memphis Jug Band, and Django Reinhardt, the band combines captivating songwriting, tight vocal harmonies, and fingerstyle guitar to create an exciting and original sound which avoids camp or cliches in favor of a spiky edge.

Since releasing its first, self-titled album in 2002, the trio has played up and down the West Coast, and has shared bills with Robert Earl Keen and Paul Thorn. Fast friends since their childhood in rural Vermont, Pete Bernhard (guitar), Lucia Turino (upright bass), and Cooper McBean (guitar, tenor banjo) are based in Santa Cruz, CA.