The T.West Band

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Member Since: 30/10/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/twestband
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The T.West Band 10-18-08 Downtown Grill & Brewery Photo: www.hitchcockphoto.comINFLUENCES: Our music is a vast mix of many types of music and musicians, both known and unknown...and life itself. All of us in the T.West band have extremely vast musical interests and influences. That's a big part of our different sound and difficulty in labeling us in any genre ...especially when it comes to our original music. T.West does the writing, but every member of our band puts their own signature on the music and brings to the table a fusion of background influences that creates the unique and different sound.
T.WEST BAND ROADIES UNION MEMBERS
T.West Band Roadies Union Members If you are or were a T.West Band member or was playing with the T.West band at the time, your name will NOT be on this list. Only those folks who are not T.West Band members or playing in the show and still helped LUG SHIT AROUND will be listed here. If your name is on this list you now have gripe or brag rights....however you see fit: Because this union was established by Carl West & Aletheia Aquavivia the following titles must first be noted:President and number one Roadie - Carl West Vise President - Aletheia Aquavivia Honorary Members: Tom Smith, Chris Szaton, Batch, Cat, Jane Crowe, John Wells, Pat Helms, wooloughby (has lugged when he's not been a part of the show) Angela Woofter, Mitch Green, Rusty West, Heather Ohana, Jason Farrell, Angela Johnson, Johnny Smith, downtown Jay, Alyson Spirko, Jim West, Brandie Edmonds and Christina, James Maples & Terry "Teep" Phillips- Jesse Green...and the list continues with Rachael Wisner,Steve White, names will continue to be added to the list of honorary T.West Band Roadies Union Members. If you have helped lug our equipment and we have left you out please email us and we will promptly add you name to the list of folks we most appreciate!
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NOTE: If you are looking for pictures of your band or you I took during one of our bike riding trips please go to my personal page. All pictures are there from rides and labeled by date and name of adventure at www.myspace.com/twestcds
Cretin Art - "a celebration of abnormality"
The T.West Band would like to welcome and thank Brian Doogan, creator of Cretin Art, who the T.West Band has teamed up with. We are looking forward to a long relationship of great art on our posters, websites, press kits...and cd covers all Cretin Art is copyright by Brian Doogan/Cretin Art...you can buy Cretin Art paintings and prints....check it out at
www.cretinart.comBrian has finished the new CD cover "The T.West Band - Live From WDVX Blue Plate Special!" - OMG! We LOVE being Cretins! You can purchase CDs & T-Shirts with this cover at any of our shows. This is our "Live at WDVX Blue Plate Special" CD released this year, which is a collective or work we did on the Blue Plate last year 2007. Nine songs and the T-Shirts are great too...so give us a shout at our shows or message back here online if you'd like a CD or T-Shirt or BOTH!

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WDVX Blue Plate SpecialPhoto By: www.blackdotgraphics.comMetro Pulse [March 20, 2008-pp43-M.E.] "The T.West Band plays a mix of folk, rock and fiddle music. The songs on their new self-titled CD, recorded last year at a Blue Plate Special at WDVX, are both driving and haunting, mostly minor-key hippie-folk dirges that occasionally drift into a down-and-dirty variation on the blues. Frontwoman Theresa West's weathered and haunted vocals are the ace in the hole; half=spoken, half-sung, at times otherworldly, they complement the alternately eerie and buoyant fiddle lines. (Brian Doogan's increasingly vast catalog of promotional art for the band, influenced by the underground comics and psychedelic cartoonists of the late '60s and early '70s, is a fitting visual representation of the group's music.)(M.E.)"Metro Pulse [September 20, 2007- M.G.] Dubbed "Neo-Traditional" The T.West Band is "Roots Music Modernized"- wooloughby. It's a fusion of acoustic high-energy folk-rockin' jazzy-blues roots music! We sound like a group of musicians havin' a rockin' good time!Link to The Daily Times - WEEKEND and read and article about The T.West Band today! http://www. thedailytimes. com/article/20080523/ENT/252391486
T.WestPhoto By: Carla CharityClick PLAY then STOP:..
free player from mysplayer.comEmail T.West: www.myspace.com/twestcdsT.West, Guitar & Lead Vocals. I've been playing since I was sixteen. I quit for 10 years. I've played in some great places both large and small and with great musicians in great crowds the same. Music has taken me places I never would have gone without it. It's brought me friends I never would have known otherwise. I grew up with musicians and far too many times i've had people tell me at shows that they did not have that joy in their lives growing up. I came to understand there's no reason to play but for the experiences music has brought me.
wooloughbyPhoto By: Carla Charity Email wooloughby: http://www.myspace.com/wooloughbymusic Click PLAY then STOP:..
free player from mysplayer.comI am a bassist. I have been playing bass for 14 years. I also play guitar and theremin. I have played all sorts of music ranging from Classic Rock, Hard Rock/Heavy Metal, Modern Rock, Punk Rock, Big Band Jazz, Coffee House Jazz, Blues, Funk, Folk/Americana, Avante Garde/Experimental, Rockabilly/Psychobilly, etc, etc. I now play more with a Funk feel, Jazz harmony, and a Punk attitude but if a song calls for something else I will obey the artform.
Andy WoodPhoto Credit: Carla CharityClick PLAY then STOP:..
free player from mysplayer.comAndy Wood has been kidnapped from the Exit 65 band to play with the T.West band. He's a very well known percussionist who has been playing in bands for longer than he will allow us to say :) and has more toys than any man has a right to....so seeing Andy perform is an experience all by itself!
Buell WisnerClick PLAY then STOP:..
free player from mysplayer.comAt heart, I have a split musical personality, as Neil Young describes it in his song "From Hank to Hendrix." I've been trying to balance folk-based acoustic music against guitar-god posturing for the better part of my life. I've performed many kinds of Americana and many kinds of rock music both in my native Georgia and my recently adopted hometown of Knoxville. Most recently, I've played guitar and sung with Maryville roots-rockers Peach Orchard and in support of Knoxville singer-songwriter Mark Coram. I might be the only Les Paul devotee you'll meet who's just as likely to play "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll" as "Whipping Post."
Honorary Members Of The T.West Band
Terry "Teep" Phillips Email Terry: http://www.teeper.orgClick PLAY then STOP:
free player from mysplayer.comTerry "Teep" Phillips is probably the most well respected and best known side man in Knoxville. He plays many insturments but most noteworthy with the T.West Band a mean lead guitar and Terry plays with many other bands, but we have the honor of having him on call with the T.West Band this year and have enjoyed every performance we've had the pleasure of. MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator MyGen Profile Generator
Record Label: INDEPENDENT