Member Since: 14/09/2006
Band Website: http://www.ellsworthsongs.com
Band Members: Ellsworth writes the songs and plays the guitar and sometimes keyboards. The rest of the band changes depending on the usual when, where, how and why of modern musical gigdom.
Influences: Phil Hicks, John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Ali-o, Jean Tocci, Groucho, Harpo & Chico, John Hartford, Fats Waller, Ava Gardner, Frank Zappa, John Coltrane, Billy Holiday, Chuck Berry, Tony Joe White, Janis Joplin, Ray Charles, Woody Guthrie, W.B. Yeats, Louis Jordan, Eve Arden, Van Morrison, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, John Lennon, Walt Whitman, Charles Bukowski, Hank Chinaski, Alfred E Newman, Dashell Hammet, Shel Silverstein, James Purdy, Meryl Streep, Geronimo, Hank & Lucinda Williams, Jim Kweskin, Fritz Richmond, Johnny Clegg, David "Fathead" Newman, Chuck & Granny D, Bob Marley and John Steinbeck.
Sounds Like: Crazy mix of everything that makes it's way into my thick skull. e.g. subways, birds, old cheap guitars, whacked-out poets, police sirens, morning glories exhaling, grand pianos, breaking glass, sex moans, the soundless wail of dreams, Kerouac's patter, scary bums on the corner, echoes in hallways, static, rain on windows, politicians endless prattle, jungle drums, rockets in space, atom bombs, mad gratuitous laughter, silent farts, ping pong balls, fire, dogs barking, phones ringing and all that jazz.......
Record Label: Self-Released