Member Since: 09/01/2007
Band Website: http://www.theditchflowers.com
Band Members: Ed Woltil operates guitars and other creatures, sings, thinks, makes wishes and sometimes in public.
Brian Merrill sings, wrestles live acoustic guitars onstage and functions as chief machine whisperer.
Mike Hoag squeezes out thick, prehensile gobs of tasty bass paste.
Stan Arthur is to drums and backing vocals what Francois Truffaut was to french cinema.
Steve Connelly shows up, clocks in, rolls up his sleeves, and abandons himself to guitar-induced trances of ridiculous proportions.
Influences: Beatles, Kinks, Zombies, XTC, Crowded House, Squeeze, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, Emitt Rhodes, Nick Lowe, 10cc, Harry Nilsson, Randy Newman, Ron Sexsmith, Badfinger, Burt Bacharach, Beach Boys, Wilco, Neil Young, Over The Rhine, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, The dBs, Elliott Smith, Django Reinhardt, Everly Brothers, Hal, Grant Lee Buffalo, Hem, Jayhawks, Jellyfish, Jason Falkner, Fountains of Wayne, Teenage Fanclub, Cheap Trick, Supergrass, Blur, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, Simon and Garfunkel, Nick Drake, Motown, James Taylor, Pete Townshend, Paul Westerberg, Peter Gabriel, Prefab Sprout, Richard Thompson, The Rembrandts, Robyn Hitchcock, Rufus Wainwright, Steely Dan, Talking Heads, World Party
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Record Label: Sunshine Drenchy
Type of Label: Indie