Member Since: 23/08/2006
Band Website: www.wishpenny.com
Band Members: Sis - making up songs, singing, strumming. . . Bud - electric guitar, sound fiddling, bass and helping to make up songs. Wishpenny also enjoys playing on occasion with J Scarboro (drummer extra-ordinary), K Scarboro (Lady Thunderstick) and the Graber Family Orchestra.
Influences: Traditional and Contemporary Rock, Folk, Pop, Country, Blues - filtered, mangled, and mixed up with twenty-first century disillusionment. TOP-SHELF PERFORMING SONGWRITERS: Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Patty Griffin, Buddy & Julie Miller, John Prine, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Emmy Lou Harris, Gram Parsons, Juice Newton, REM, Tracy Chapman, Leslie Woods & Dark Mountain Orchid, Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Hank Williams, Beatles, Natalie Merchant, Phoebe Snow, Joni Mitchell, Ryan Adams, Tift Merritt, Kathleen Edwards, Chuck Prophet, Uncle Tupelo/Sunvolt/Jay Farrar/Wilco, Scott Miller, Jack White, Matthew Ryan, CCR, Bonnie Raitt, RB Morris, Keb Mo, Shawn Colvin, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, Lyle Lovett, Kelly Willis, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Iron & Wine, Alejandro Escovedo, Radiohead, anyone who writes and sings with honesty, grit, soul . . . you get the picture :) INSPIRATION: people of substance, other people, love, the south, anger, mountains, happiness, swamps, family, melancholy, art, poets, chocolate, voices, politics, travel, confusion, economics, friendship, movies, storytellers, books . . .
Sounds Like: dirt and sky . . . blue and brown . . . hope and disappointment . . . gritty folky rocking alternative country . . . girl sanging over geetars clanging . . .
Record Label: Sharpie Markers