Uncle Monk is an American bluegrass band.
The band's two members are Tommy Ramone (born Tamás Erdélyi), the last surviving original member of the pioneering punk rock band The Ramones, and Claudia Tienan, a guitarist, bassist and vocalist formerly with an alternative band called The Simplistics.
Uncle Monk has released one album, also named Uncle Monk, which was released in March 2006.
Famous quotes containing the words uncle and/or monk:
“my Uncle Sol’s farm
failed because the chickens
ate the vegetables so
my Uncle Sol had a
chicken farm till the
skunks ate the chickens when”
—E.E. (Edward Estlin)
“The monk in hiding himself from the world becomes not less than himself, not less of a person, but more of a person, more truly and perfectly himself: for his personality and individuality are perfected in their true order, the spiritual, interior order, of union with God, the principle of all perfection.”
—Thomas Merton (1915–1968)