Member Since: 23/10/2006
Band Members: Musicians on CD -- Tony Tedeschi: lead vocals and rhythm guitar;
Doug Kwartler: lead guitar, slide guitar, banjo, backing vocals, bass, percussion;
Michael Leuci: Hammond organ, drums;
John Henry Trinko: piano;
Dan Zellan, lead guitar;
Mark Crosson: lap steel;
Jim Leach: electric bass;
Doug Drewes, stand-up bass;
Rob Hecht, violin.
Influences: Started with the whole Sun Records thing: Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Cash, Elvis before he went mainstream. Then Dylan and the Greenwich Village folk scene. Blues, definitely blues: Lightning Hopkins, B.B. King, Jimmy Reed. Numerous female artists both vintage and new: Joni Mitchell, Bonnie Raitt, Lucinda Williams. Throw in some Ray Charles . . . and, well . . . Stuck in the '60s, maybe even the '50s some. Mark Knopfler, Willie Nelson and Richard Thompson have traveled across the years with me. Newcomers like Anne McCue, Ray LaMontagne, Jonny Lang, Andrea England (a wonderful Canadian singer-songwriter), Mary Gauthier (one of the best songwriters I've heard in years) and Susan Tedeschi (no relation) have added some recent spice. I came late to Leonard Cohen, but, damn, he hit me hard. I am also very much influenced by fellow Long Islanders like Doug Kwartler, Toby Walker, Joe Vicino, among those with growing reputations, Pedro Pereira and Michael Leuci, who have provided guidance and inspiration. Playing in this area and interacting with wonderful performers such as these is an ongoing source of inspiration. I have a master's in English Lit and there is no overestimating the influence of the great poets from Milton to T.S. Eliot, Donne to Pound; Whitman, Dickinson, Wallace Stevens. Among novelists, F. Scott Fitzgerald and James Joyce. How do they influence music? How do they not?
Record Label: Hollow Body Records
Type of Label: Indie