Member Since: 4/2/2005
Band Members: currently live: matt beck on piano, chris foley on guitar, rober burkhart on cello, and myself on vocals
Influences: i feel the people in my life who inspire me the most are those who i have personally been in contact with, the ones who have just come into my life or that have been there since the beginning of this journey... these people are the ones who disarm me to write whats beneath my surface; musically: to date, my first true musical loves are sarah mclachlan and michelle branch... they turned me on to my unyielding need for music in my life... from then on i was constantly looking for music that everyone else might not find, or follow, or hear on the radio 24/7... which led to me finding fiona apple, holly brook and anna nalick and more recently, missy higgins out in australia and rufus wainwright...
Sounds Like: when marshall altman first listened to my demos, he said that my voice had an "emotional currency." he made me understand what it takes to be a true artist; one has to write from the bottom of their soul. you need to write from where you push aside the issues that are so hard to hide... the issues that make a person the actual being that they have become... the issues that are, in reality, subconscious burdens.. and instead of staring them straight in the face, we force ourselves to believe we're over it.. this is me coming to terms with the way things are and were. this is moving on.
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