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Atom Lax

About Me


Good things that people have said about my music...
"You are beautiful." - Miles Riley
"All of your songs tell a story." - Evan
"His living room a simple, functional unit. A big screen television with a floor/sea of regular nintendo games. Against the wall six acoustic guitars lay, most in tunings I can hardly spell.
Watching him play guitar is so captivating. He plays with all ten fingers, creating multiple melodies keeping you attetive without any other instrument. He really is a blockbuster musician." - Randall
Contact and Booking Info:
AIM - thislevelisadam
email: [email protected]
I started playing guitar when I turned 17 and got my first guitar. Before then I knew how to play a few riffs but wouldn't have considered myself a guitar player. Eventually I started to delve into the style of people like Michael Hedges and Don Ross. Soon playing other peoples songs wasn't enough so I started to make my own songs.
The songs on my page are all one guitar and two hands. There are no overdubs and there are no loops or any tricks of any kind. When you hear what sounds like a bass line and drums and guitar that is me using the guitar and guitar body to do it all at once.
Untitled New Album - Track Listing
Release Date - Late 2008..Early 2009
1 - The Meadow At Sunset
2 - You Are Beautiful
3 - Sleeping Easy
4 - 20 Miles Outside of Midland
5 - Arbury Place
6 - Watching Cars Go By
7 - Fireworks Are For the Birds
8 - True to the Heart
9 - Don't Eat From the Candy Tree
10 - Everything and Nothing
11 - Majestic
12 - When Gravity Left Everyone Alone
251 LP - Track Listing
Released - October 2006
1 - Riverside Slingshot
2 - Watermelon*
3 - Rain
4 - 251
5 - Petoskey Shoreline
6 - Through the Hedges
7 - Joi O' Fortuna
*Leo Kottke cover
Down By the River EP - Track Listing
Released - September 2007
1 - Sleeping Easy
2 - Riverside Slingshot
3 - Petoskey Shoreline
4 - Through the Hedges
"Years from now, after I'm gone, someone will listen to what I've done and know I was here. They may not know or care who I was, but they'll hear my guitars speaking for me."
- Chet Atkins

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 07/09/2005
Band Website: http://www.youtube.com/adamlaxmusic
Band Members:
Download my first full length "251" on Cllct.com as well as many great DIY musician's albums.

Thin Air - Cover, Don Ross

Majestic - Orginial

Fireworks Are For the Birds - Original

"Dracula and Friends" in Ellicott City, MD
Influences: Leo Kottke
Michael Hedges
Kaki King
Andy McKee
Preston Reed
Justin King
Mike Doughty
Bob Dylan
Pinback
Keller Williams
Cake
Regina Spektor
blink-182
Ani DiFranco
Nick Drake
Colin Hay
Umphrey's McGee
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Gorillaz
Jimi Hendrix
Built to Spill
Three Mile Pilot
Ben Harper
Donovan Frankenreiter
Don Ross
Craig D'Andrea
Tommy Emmanuel
Tenacious D
caleb jehl
Buckethead
Tuck Andress
Incubus
Kurt Vonnegut
Family Guy
Ramen Noodles

Sounds Like: Keller Williams
Leo Kottke
Michael Hedges
Justin King
Kaki King
Craig D'Andrea
Don Ross
Antoine DuFour
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

new album, new ep, shows, turtles

Firstly, I want to thank everyone who was out at the last couple TLIC! shows. It had been awhile since we had played and it was nice to see all of your faces at the shows. Hopefully we'll have more sh...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Feb 2008 15:06:00 GMT

Michael Hedges; Dec 31,1953 - Dec 2, 1997

This past Sunday (December 2nd) marked ten years that Michael Hedges, probably the greatest guitarist in the past twent years, was found dead in a car crash in California. He was a very uniq...
Posted by on Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:05:00 GMT

New EP details

Songs to Get High To EP - Track Listing 1. Majestic 2. Fireworks Are for the Birds 3. A'loovahchay 4. Song for Mom 2 5. Tuscarawas River LullabyIt is to be recorded sometime within the next few weeks ...
Posted by on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 19:24:00 GMT

This Weekends shows in Michigan...

This weekend I will be playing at the Midland Creative Spirits Center and I will have my full length album as well as new EP's entitled "Down by the River." The new EP has three tracks from the full l...
Posted by on Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:50:00 GMT

summer tour 07 - heading to massachusets and ROBOT MANSION!!!!

currently we are sitting in massachusets in a hotel room watching VH1. the past few days have been crazy, but a whole lot of fun. after leaving the motel 8 the other night we drove for a few hours tow...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 13:39:00 GMT

heading for connecticut

so right now i am currently sitting in a super 8 motel with nate penney and we are rocking out to some aphex twin. the tour with us and glynis has officially started and things are looking good. after...
Posted by on Mon, 06 Aug 2007 23:13:00 GMT

homeward bound

so i finally got back a few days ago from tour and it was a hell of a time... but im glad to be home too. every show we played was great and the duo seems to be working out quite well. at the shows ev...
Posted by on Sun, 17 Jun 2007 01:31:00 GMT

summer tour 07 part one

the past few days have been the best ive had in a long ass time. no worries, no nothing... just having fun and playing shows. we hung out with glynis for the past few days in midland and now we a...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Jun 2007 08:34:00 GMT

other sites with more songs on them...

so if anyone is interested in listening to songs that aren't on my myspace you can check out my virb siteor you can go to my soundclick siteboth have some of my electronic music as well as the acousti...
Posted by on Tue, 29 May 2007 23:23:00 GMT

many things for so little time

right now its time for getting ready to tour. this one should be a great one too because we are touring with glynis and dear dead city. both are rocking bands from the michigan and chicago areas respe...
Posted by on Wed, 23 May 2007 03:02:00 GMT