The Felice Brothers got their start as a band playing in the New York City subway.[2] The sons of a carpenter, they would play together on Sundays at their father's afternoon barbecues.[3] They stayed in a little apartment in Brooklyn[2] and would play in the subway stations at 42nd Street and Union Square and in Greenwich Village.[4] The three brothers originally hail from Palenville, New York[2] in the Catskill Mountains.