Member Since: 6/18/2005
Band Website: giantbeartn.com
Band Members: Robert Humphreys
bass, vocals, percussion
Nuckolls
drums, percussion
Jana Misener
vocals, cello
Jeff White
guitar, vocals
Influences: Tom Waits, Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, Vic Chesnutt, Chopin, Dusty Springfield, Schubert, Radiohead, Edgar Meyer, Wilco, New Pornographers, Neko Case, Blackie Ranchette, The Pixies, Brian Eno, Flying Burrito Brothers, Dvorak, Gram Rabbit, Victoria Williams, CCR, Edward Elgar, Velvet Underground, Morphine, Woody Guthrie, Talking Heads, The Boss, Tortoise, Blair Combest, Cowboy Junkies, REM, Drive-By Truckers, Carl Perkins, Elvis Costello, Willie Nelson, Christopher Rouse, Laurie Anderson, Beethoven, Frank Zappa, Calexico, The Decemberists, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Leonard Cohen, Townes Van Zandt.
Sounds Like: Southern-Fried New Pornographers, Acoustic Minded Flaming Lips, The Decemberists from Shiloh, The Pogues of the MidWest, Zappa & The Mothers of Invention reinvented as a modern folk-pop dynamo.
Record Label: Red Wax Music www.redwaxmusic.net
Type of Label: Indie