Member Since: 4/15/2005
Band Website: vivianlinden.com
Band Members: Vivian Linden: Vocals, acoustic guitar
Michael McNaugton: Electric guitar, lap steel
Additional Studio Musicians on Watch the Light Fade:
Charlie Smith (piano, wurlitzer, backing vocals), Eric Eagle (drums, percussion), Jon Hyde (electric bass, pedal steel guitar), Bill Herzog (bowed bass, backing vocals), Wayne Horvitz (organ, additional piano), Jay Raulston (trumpet), Beck Henderer Pena (addtional electric guitar).
Additional Studio Musicians on The Latecomers EP:
Lauryn Shapter: Violin, viola
Influences: Bruce Springsteen, Emmylou Harris, Ry Cooder, Mazzy Star, Terrence Malick, Wim Wenders, Emily Dickenson, Buddhist Poet Monks of China and Tibet, Andrew Wyeth, Georgia O'keefe, Edward S. Curtis, the plains of west Texas, the farm fields and valleys of the Pacific West...
Sounds Like: "Painterly washes of darkling country torch, phials of pale blue sound. Pedal steel and ringing piano echo through the empty rooms of this deserted house. A battered guitar lies on the cold bed. A familiar, lonely street during an autumn night, your words trapped and suspended in the clear, chilled air of winter. A voice that can trill like Stevie Nicks or Tim Buckley but is weighed down by sorrows and wisdom, heavy like Townes Van Zandt or Mike Johnson. Watch The Light Fade is reminiscent of the epic, biblical sweep and tear-stained sheets of Nocturama-era Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds..."
Record Label: Tarnished Records
Type of Label: Indie