Member Since: 23/03/2005
Band Website: http://www.crystinbyrd.com
Band Members: Crystin Byrd - singer/songwriter/guitarist
Live performance, Crystin Byrd Band:
Scott Allen - Cello
Jessica Wright - Flute
Brian Wright - Drums/Percussion
On the album, "My Silence":
Adam Mack - drums
Daren Claymon - bass, glockenspiel, harmonica
Todd Bayles - multi-instrumentalist/arranger/co-producer/co-engineer
Influences: Joni Mitchell, Sarah McLachlan, Ani Difranco, Suzanne Vega, Over The Rhine, Cat Stevens, Aimee Mann, October Project, Over The Rhine, Heather Nova, Tori Amos, John Denver, Sinead O'Connor, Jon Brion, The Beatles .... ......... ........... ......... .......... ............. ........ ........In my life I've also enjoyed and been influenced by the incredible works of J.S. Bach, Rachmaninoff, Beethoven, Debussy, Walt Whitman, C.S. Lewis's Narnia series, Ayn Rand, JRR Tolkien, Maria Doria Russell's "Children of God," Barbara Kingsolver's "The Poisonwood Bible," Maya Angelou, Hafiz, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Li-Young Lee, Lao Tzu, "The Tao Te Ching," Mary Oliver, Kenneth Patchen, John Donne, Alice Walker's "The Color Purple," William Wordsworth, the Bronte sisters, Rumi, Walter M. Miller Jr's "A Canticle for Leibowitz," everything by Kurt Vonnegut but especially "Cat's Cradle," Zora Neale Hurston's "Their Eyes Were Watching God," Thornton Wilder's "Our Town," Kim Antieau's "The Gaia Websters" and "The Jigsaw Woman," anything and everything by Ursula K. LeGuin but especially "The Left Hand of Darkness."
Sounds Like: We've heard comparisons to: Natalie Merchant, Tori Amos, Sarah McLachlan, Blondie, Gemma Hayes, Aimee Mann, Cowboy Junkies, Suzanne Vega, Evanescence, Dido, Innocence Mission.
Record Label: Yay! Music - self released