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Insomnigrass

it takes a train to cry

About Me

Insomnigrass and its subsidiary concepts (Tyler Dean & the Forest Friars, The Flaming Sherpas, Auntie Oxidant and the Phree Radicals) hail from various locales throughout the Pacific Northwest, spreading east to Lower Canada, north to the Yukon Territory, and all the way south past the Mason-Dixon Line. Our membership is constantly growing, but our bottom line is quality time - good people, good music and good times all around!!!Alright, now, who wants to pick one?!! Let's do 'er up in the key of Canada "eh"!??

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/18/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/insomnigrass
Band Members: You know who you are.
Influences: Bluegrass & Old Tyme greats past and present, Neil Young, Dylan, the Dead, Waylon, the Allmans, Black Sabbath, Zeppelin, the Beatles, the Stones, the Police.... It's all pretty much gravy; just put 'er on the table and let's see how she tastes!...Or a more comprehensive listing (with all due respect): Gordon Lightfoot, Bill Monroe, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Hank Williams, John Hartford, The Band, Jerry Garcia, The Dead, Gillian Welch, Earl Bros, Waylon Jennings, Old & in the Way, Bruce Cockburn, Stan Rogers, The Sadies, Nashville West, the Irish Descendents, the Descendents, Jethro Tull, the Stones, the Police, the Pentangle (John Renbourne), David Francey, John Reischman & co., Blue Highway, Leon Hunt, Fred Eaglesmith, Sam Beam, Led Zeppelin, Leonard Cohen, P.W. Long, Erynn Marshall, Railroad Earth, Foghorn Stringband, the Hip, Tom Waits, Tom Petty, Weakerthans, Operation Ivy, Manu Chao, Jean Leloup, Daniel Bélanger, Richard Desjardins, Tryo, les Cowboys Fringants, J.J. Cale, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, Buddy & Julie Miller, Stanley Bros, Flatt & Scruggs, Osborne Bros, Doc Boggs, Doc Watson, Tommy Jarrell & Fred Cockerham, Tony Rice, Tim O'Brien, Bela Fleck, David Grisman Quintet, Norman Blake, Clarence White, J.D. Crowe, McCoury Family, Red Allen & Frank Wakefield, Country Gentlemen, the Hillmen, the Dillards, Jim & Jesse McReynolds, Seldom Scene, Ricky Skaggs, Jim Hurst, Dennis Caplinger, Danny Barnes, Sammy Shelor, Bill Evans, Lucinda Williams, Stuart Duncan, Bruce Springsteen, Black Sabbath.
Sounds Like: Hard-workin' down-home stick-in-yer-gut Lonesome
Record Label: T-Dawg Productions
Type of Label: None

My Blog

No. 2 Coal

new tune!  here's a little historical context for those who enjoy that sort of thing: http://www.crowsnest.bc.ca/coalcreekdisaster.html...
Posted by Insomnigrass on Tue, 06 Mar 2007 08:22:00 PST

Viper Central

Check out my new project Viper Central!Original bluegrass and old time-inspired music from Canada's West Coast!I'm very excited about this group consisting of six great friends who love to play music ...
Posted by Insomnigrass on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 07:11:00 PST

Jam Camp

Just returned from Japan!  What an amazing experience.  Fantastic food, beautiful scenery, wonderful people and the Sakura in full bloom....  What more could a person ask for??!!  ...
Posted by Insomnigrass on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:29:00 PST

Jody & the Lost Hearts

Just wanted to promote a great new bluegrass band in Vancouver that I have had the distinct pleasure of backing up as of late.  Jody & the Lost Hearts are a relatively new phenomeno...
Posted by Insomnigrass on Mon, 06 Feb 2006 03:49:00 PST

The New-Fangled String Band

To all interested parties, life is great and the good grass is alive and well in Vancouver, British Columbia where I am fortunate to be playing lots of wonderful music with a ...
Posted by Insomnigrass on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:25:00 PST

Tunes for y'all

It is my pleasure to formally announce the unofficial release of three original tunes from the T-Dawg for your listening pleasure.  Nothing fancy, just the tunes as they sounded of an a wintery&n...
Posted by Insomnigrass on Thu, 03 Nov 2005 07:09:00 PST

Pickin' 'till Dawn

The venerable Gordon Lightfoot once crooned "Pickin' with a friend 'till dawn, singing all those highway songs".  MAN did he ever hit the nail on the head, because what really can better capture...
Posted by Insomnigrass on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST