Member Since: 7/25/2005
Band Website: stokeswood.net
Band Members: ADAM PATTERSON: Acoustic Guitar, Lead Vox
MARK GODWIN: Electric & Acoustic Guitars, Harmonica, Vox
REED IRVINE: Piano, Bass, Vox
CRAIG GENDREAU: Percussion
JON JOINER: Drums, Vox
Influences: STOKESWOOD Live Video Archive CLICK HERE to view their 12/28/07 show
Performer Magazine SouthEast January 2008Stokeswood's Studio FireEarly this past October the boys of local rock band Stokeswood had tragedy strike when their home and past recording studio suffered a huge fire. The home, which was rented, was once the sole recording studio of original members Mark Godwin (guitars) and Adam Patterson (guitar, vocals), as well as the inspiration for the band's name, being on Stokeswood Avenue.
Though the band now records at Atlanta studio Stonehenge Recording, the band's first EP, Cellar Door was completed at the home. The band had an incredible amount of recording equipment and intruments stored at the home, but it was all miraculously saved by a knowledgeable fireman.
"One of the firemen was a musician," says Godwin. "He covered up the piano and guitars with tarps."
The fire was started in "the least of rock star ways," says Godwin. An emergency light caught on fire, igniting the top floor of the house. Being down below the blaze, Godwin was completely unaware until a friendly neighbor came to the door.
"This litttle old lady knocked on the door and said, "You know your house is on fire," says Godwin. "I took a garden hose upstairs, but the entire place was engulfed in flames."
Though the equipment was saved from water and fire damage on the ground floor, virtually all of the band members' possessions have been completely destroyed, save a mysterious voodoo doll, a St. Rita statue and a closet of clothes.
"We wrote this song 'Lucy's Lullaby,'" says Godwin, explaining the band's theory. "We believe there is a ghost of a girl in the closet up there. There was no damage and the shirts were completely clean."
To give donations to help the band rebuild what wasn't mysteriously saved from the fire, visit the band's myspace page, listed below.
www.myspace.com/stokeswood
Sounds Like: A Cosmic Waltz
Record Label: ~All Tricks No Sleeves~
Type of Label: Indie