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The Ermoian Brothers

About Me

The Ermoian brothers, Jeff, T.J. and Chris have been performing together since the '70s. In the '80s they started writing songs. Working together and independently, each have composed many songs in a variety of styles. In the '90s they formed the electric rock combo "King Coyote" that performed at virtually all of Waco's best-known music venues.
In 1996 while trying to get discovered as composers, the brothers realized that others more deserving of recognition, were not being discovered either. They decided to respond by creating a television show that would bring some of these songwriters to a larger audience. The resulting show, entitled the "All You Can Eat Texas Music Cafe" , rapidly found it's way onto many PBS stations and the show just kept getting better. Eventually the show was aired nationally and finally internationally.
The challenge of producing television all but stopped the brothers' own performances. The new millinium finally brought about the formation of "The Ermoian Brothers" as an acoustic act that entertains at large venues and small ones, mainly in the Central Texas area.
"Either a fight or a song is gonna break out, and you don't know which." Known for their brother harmonies and on-stage friction, they continue to compose and perform new songs before audiences of all ages. In more ways than one, the brothers have been responsible for bringing hundreds of songs to their audience for over 20 years.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/08/2007
Band Website: http://www.ilike.com/artist/The+Ermoian+Brothers
Band Members: Jeff Ermoian - Lead & Backing Vocals, Songwriter, Percussion, Harmonica
T.J. Ermoian - Lead & Backing Vocals, Songwriter, Guitar-Rhythm, Mandolin
Chris Ermoian - Lead & Backing Vocals, Songwriter, Guitar-Lead
Influences: Brother acts of the past 40 years, John Prine, Willis Allen Ramsey, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Steve Miller, Glenn Gibbs, Mike "Mikey" Raines, CSN&Y, Eagles, America, James Taylor, The Weary Boys, The Gourds, The Beatles, Ritchie Havens, Texas Tornados, David Bromberg, Dr. Demento, The Kinks, The BeeGees, The Ramones, Van Halen, The Smothers Brothers, The Scotti Brothers, Sam & Dave, Sister Hazel, The Beach Boys, Roger Miller, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Ricky Scaggs, Hank Williams, Bill Munroe, Del McCoury Band, Nickle Creek, Slaid Cleaves, Aretha Franklin, Ruthie Foster, Mark Ambrose, Shelly King, Freddy Krc, D'Javaheads, Lenny Kravitz, Ben Harper, The Rolling Stones, The Barbershop Quartet groups of the last 100 years, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Elvis Costello, Little Richard, J.J. Cale, Herman's Hermits, Freddy and the Dreamers, Manfred Mann, Howlin' Wolf, Rice Miller, Dick Siegal, Slim Harpo, Willie Dixon, Jimmy Lee Vaughn, Kent "Omar" Dykes, Z.Z. Top, Shel Silverstein, Andy Kauffman, Bill Moyers, Fred Rogers, Joe Raposo, Meredeth Wilson, and our Dad. Probably lots of others just as important that I can't recall right now.
Sounds Like: American acoustic rock and folk acts of the last 30 years. This band has garage rock roots but shows the diversity of it's influences. Their songs are hard to categorize as a group.
Record Label: E-Cleff
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

I hate playing in bars

Last night we did our second show at Hog Creek. The parking lot already had many cars when I arrived around 6:30. I thought, "that's great!" but then I noticed the marquee that read "Free Food". "When...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Mar 2009 13:31:00 GMT

Back in the Studio

The brothers E returned to the studio last week to get rolling on their first real production CD. David Jones' Blue Room is doing the recording and Casey Pittman is producing and engineering. We laid ...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:47:00 GMT

Were back and were bad!

Hello friends, The brothers have been laying low for the last few weeks. Jeff has made some progress at kicking his addiction to food and sleep. Teej ended up representing us alone at KFF. Chris becam...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:44:00 GMT

Secret Mission

Two of the brothers have deployed to an undisclosed location in the middle east. Their stated mission is one of peace, but the secrecy surrounding the trip may be cause for speculation. Armed with gui...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:45:00 GMT

The NEXT E-Bros. CD

We decided on our last rehearsal night that we are going to make our next CD a priority. We continue to write new tunes and will seek bookings in the new year, possibly as an opening act for several o...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:27:00 GMT

Bloggin down easy

Howdy my loyal readers. I should probably say reader, because besides myself, I don't know if anyone else is reading. Assuming you showed up (oh, there you are now, welcome) I will write as if I was b...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Nov 2007 14:05:00 GMT

Great Weekend

The weekend was great. We went to a private party so thick with songwriters that you couldn't swing a guitar around your head without smacking a few. It was loud enough at one point to merit a visit f...
Posted by on Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:32:00 GMT

Rehearsal this Week

Rehearsal went fine this week. We got a couple more tunes ready to be sent off to our bass player who will record his part there in Dallas and send it back to Waco as an electronic file. Ain't technol...
Posted by on Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:33:00 GMT

Triune

Peace everybody. This is Jeff, here to say I am looking forward to this week. Chris was ill last week and had to cancel our rehearsal. I saw him yesterday and he is feeling much better. T.J. look...
Posted by on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 11:48:00 GMT

Band of a Thousand Names Game

Here's the list so far. It's going to take a few minutes to read it all but a thousand is a lot.Schatze Gundersson and the Matress SidesMae Knott with Will Theiu and the AmbivalentsRhee Klein-Stander ...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Aug 2006 17:35:00 GMT