Member Since: 01/02/2007
Band Website: atthestillpointoftheturningworld.blogspot.com
Band Members: Josh Harrod on: vocals; 4, 6, and 12 string acoustic guitars; resonator slide guitar; electric guitar; banjo; mandolin; bass; harmonica; chord organ; thumb piano; gourd xylophone;
kitchenware and other random percussion
Influences: In no particular order: Garcia, Django, Rev. Gary Davis, Miles, Coltrane, Doc Boggs, my clawhammer-banjer-frailin' great-grandpa, Mike Seeger, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Tom Waits, Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Rilke, Basho, Chuang-Tzu, Lao-Tzu, Leo Kottke, Springsteen on Nebraska, Bill Evans, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, Darrell Scott, Railroad Earth, Jason Harrod, Paul Simon, Uncle Tupelo, Wilco, The Louvin Brothers, Skip Spence, Hazel Dickens, John Prine, Guy Clark, anybody who's ever played in the mud at the Galax Fiddlers' Convention, Larry Keel, Nickel Creek, Nietzsche, heretics of many stripes, Thomas Merton, Philip K. Dick, Teilhard de Chardin, Raymond Carver, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Terry, The Coptic Gospel of Thomas, The Slate Family A Capella Gospel Quartet, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchell, Dar Williams, Paracelsus, CG Jung, Stephan Hoeller, Will Oldham, Bill Callahan, and the list goes on and on and on ...
Sounds Like: "All secrets of past tense have just come my way, but I still don't know what I'm going to do next." --Richard Brautigan
Type of Label: Unsigned