Member Since: 2/22/2007
Band Website: breezeandwilson.com
Band Members: Graham Breeze and Toby Wilson.
Influences: The possibility of a soul-pleasing multi-harmony hook line draws us in, which almost always means back to the American country scene: Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, tex-mex period Ry Cooder, Delbert McClinton, Albert Lee, Lowell George (with and without Little Feat), Harry Nilsson, Big and Rich, James Taylor (early stuff), Keb Mo, Bonnie Raitt, Louden Wainwright III, Patty Griffin, Patty Loveless, Randy Newman, Rickie Lee Jones (everything), Take Six (early)."For a duo with a country roots feel, they have a deceptively wide range, and, to each song they perform, the two players bring their distinctive, modern, fresh approach. They are stylish, sometimes simple, always smooth, and always full of an understanding and appreciation of an older, acoustic tradition. If you listen to only one of their songs then listen to Harriet’s Song, one of their own compositions. The song has something Irish about it, a Celtic melancholy, so that it would sit easily in a Mary Black collection. It has a fiddle sequence that pulls and lifts the emotion and yet, then again, that fiddle and the high lonesome feel of Toby’s harmony just sitting on top of Graham’s gentle, dry vocal, suggests some slow, Tennessee inspired, bluegrass heartbreak. The song, their arrangement and treatment, defies easy classification; a modern song, dusted with age and sprinkled with hard to define transatlantic magic. ........................"Neil Dalton - December 2006 - (Maverick Magazine March 2007 issue)
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None