Member Since: 05/02/2007
Band Website: frontporchrecordings.blogspot.com
Influences: All those people who sang and told stories before anyone was able, or inclined, to record them. Then Gilgamesh, Homer, Ecclesiastes (except for that redacted bit at the end), Ezekiel, Daniel, The Revelation (for their imagery), The Beatitudes, The Gospel of Thomas, The Dhamapda, The Tao te Ching, The Diamond Sutra, The Heart Sutra, Dogen, Homer, Hesiod, Sophocles, Heraclitus, Parmenides, Socrates, Sappho, Ovid, Virgil, Propertius, Catallus, Lu Yu, The T'ang Dynasty Poets, Han Sahn (Cold Moutain), Stonehouse, Ikkyu, Dante, Hildegaard von Bingen, The Sepher Yitzirah, The Zohar, Fancois Villon, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, Gregorian Chant, Perotin and the Notre Dame school of compsers, John Donne, Issac Newton, Jefferson, Blake,Shelly, Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Herman Melville, Baudelaire, Vivaldi, Bach, Beethoven, Rimbaud, Lautremont, Ravel, Nietsche, Debussy, Dvorak, Ives, Apollinaire, Mallarme, Artaud, Bataille, Stravinsky, Bartok, Charles Chaplin, John Ford, John Houston, Marcel Duchamp, Charley Patton, Jimmie Rodgers, Son House, Robert Johnson, Dock Boggs, Clarence Ashley, Elliot Carter, Duke Ellington, Louie Armstrong, T. S. Eliot, H. D., Ezra Pound, Rilke, Roethke, e. e. cummings, Van Gogh, Carl Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Wallace Stevens, Martin Heidegger, Picasso, Kandinsky, Ernst, Klee, Kurt Schwitters, Emma Goldman, Albert Einstein, Charlie Parker, Samuel Beckett, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Dizzie Gillespie, Kafka, Stein, John Cage, Lou Harrison, Morton Feldman, Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, John Fahey, James Broughton, Alfred Schittke, Denise Levertov, Thomas Wolfe, James Joyce, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Muddy Waters, Willie Dixon, Charles Mingus, Miles Davis, Bill Evans, John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Albert Ayler, Elvis Presley, Jean-Luc Godard, Francois Truffaut, Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jack Kerouac, Michael McClure, William Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, Amiri Baraka, Neeli Cherkovski, Ishmael Reed, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Jim Morrison, Lou Reed, The Beatles (together and solo), Jimi Hendrix, The Rolling Stones, Merle Haggard, Otis Redding, Van Morrison, Joan Miro, Jackson Pollock, Jackson Browne, George Jones, Joni Mitchell, Richard Thompson, Nick Drake, Kurt Vonnegut, The Velvet Underground, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, Fellini, Antonioni, Rossolini, Maya Deren, Joseph Campbell, C. G. Jung, Bruce Spingsteen, Brian Eno, David Byrne, The Talking Heads, Paul Auster, Robert Creeley, William Gibson, Gore Vidal, The Clash, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, David Mamet, David Lynch, R.E.M., Arvo Part, Terry Riley, Stan Brakage, Bruce Conner, Maurice Blanchot, Jack Foley, Barry Powell, Ivan Arguelles, James Wisniewski, Jon Berry, Beck, Ry Cooder, Greg Eaton, Bruce Cockburn, Mark Alsobrook, Leonard Cohen, Wayne Sides, Keith Henry, John M. Bennett, Sharon Henry, Mike Miskowski, Martin Scorsese, Tom Waits, Van Eaton, Pauline Oliveros, Malok, Joey Holder, Ceil Davis, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Dillon McDaniel, Denise Levertov, Hank Lazer, Greg Henry, Shelia Murphy, Jeff Berry, Elvis Costello, Scott Huffsteler, Tom Waits, Chris Mansel, Darren Aaronofsky, Richard Curtis, Pat Metheny, Jim Leftwich, Jukka-Pekka Kervinen, Lissa Wolsak, John Abercrombie, Jeffrey Side, Alan May, Ben Monder, Bridget Berry always, constantly and many many more.
Sounds Like: refer to folk, blues, jazz, country, rock, and classical musicans and composers above.
Record Label: Front Porch Recordings