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Heartbreak Orchestra

About Me

We can’t all come from Connersville. Indiana is not big enough. We’d all have to have been born there, to have the sleepiness cleared from our newborn eyes, to have stared in wonder while a Middle American doctor slaps our bottoms, crying, being breastfed from the red tractors and green, green grass of home, to have spent our childhoods playing with barn cats and endless blue skies, expecting square deals and wolfing down home cooking cooked (and sometimes burned, for who among us are perfect?) in blackened pots inherited from grandma.The best bands are travel writers. Through their music and their words we are brought, beyond our will, thank goodness, to places where true love sometimes dies, where our darkness becomes our better half, where we betray the ones who trusted us, where we are scorned and scorn back, and where all that we once sought with such assured fury throws the last shovel-full of earth into our graves.Heartbreak Orchestra is one of those bands.Cello and guitar, voice and reply, tambourine and mandolin, harmonica like a troubled conscience — all bubble and froth and simmer and flame into a country blues early era rock-n-roll with a symphonic twist. They paid their dues. Here is their music.We can’t all come from Connersville. But now we can pretend we did.— Josh Dubrow, 2007

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Member Since: 06/07/2005
Band Members: Jill Garratt--vocals, guitar; Jeannine Hetzler--vocals, percussion; John Garratt--guitar, mandolin, vocals; Richard Lucas--guitar, bass, keyboard, recording guru; Deb Wilson--cello, bass
Influences: Gillian Welch, Lucinda Williams, Greg Brown, Wilco, R.E.M., www.cropchecker.com, www.radiolone.com
Sounds Like: Country soul rock 'n' roll with a symphonic twist
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Another birthday

So we played a show just a few days prior to Deb's birthday. Actually, we did two in a row. We did Victorian's on a Friday and then Espresso Yourself on that Saturday. It wasn't really "us," it was De...
Posted by on Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:52:00 GMT

Our new bass

Deb called one day to say that she bought a P. Bass. Since I really dont know any electric bass lingo, I didnt know if she said P. Bass, Pee Bass, Pea Bass, or if it was just a bad connectio...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:02:00 GMT

My idea for peace has been stolen

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091024/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_lebano n_hummus_record
Posted by on Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:54:00 GMT

Idea

Okay, I got this idea. Stay with me because it's brilliant. Ready? Okay, someone go and combine these two things:Recording Studio + Daycare Center.Got it? Make sure you get licensed by the state and a...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 08:04:00 GMT

Miles and miles of packaging

The next time someone tries to tell you that Miles Davis wasnt awesome, throw this at them: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/ref=pe_27590_13126890_pe_00 _head/?ASIN=B002EOF7U8Be careful though, it cou...
Posted by on Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:14:00 GMT

Videos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfxaxEE4Ts4http://www.youtube .com/watch?v=8otlnyED7c8Fan and lyricist Jay Osborne has two youtube videos of us at Comfest. Just like the ones from big Mike. Only differe...
Posted by on Sat, 19 Sep 2009 20:17:00 GMT

Nursery rhymes? More like...uh...umm...

It's raining; it's pouring. The old man is snoring. He went to bed and bumped his head, And he wouldn't get up in the morning. A man went to bed with head trauma and didnt get up in the morning. If y...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:18:00 GMT

More nursery rhymes

Seesaw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new masterHe shall earn but a penny a dayBecause he can't work any fasterOh wow. Are we on a plantation now? The fastest Johnny can work is a penny a day. That s...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:51:00 GMT

Lets dissect nursery rhymes

Hey diddle diddle,The cat and the fiddle,The cow jumped over the moon,The little dog laughed to see such sport,And the dish ran away with the spoon. Lets ignore what a diddle could be and notice that...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 08:57:00 GMT

There's a new sound sherrif in town

When you play music locally, you meet all kinds of sound men. And women, who happen to run sound. And I gotta say, not many of them are very passionate about their job. Sure, a few of them are happy t...
Posted by on Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:07:00 GMT