Member Since: 11/30/2007
Band Website: courtneyyasmineh.com
Band Members: Courtney Yasmineh has recorded and performed with fine musicians Dean Magraw, Dirk Freymouth, Bill Mike, Jim Anton (Johnny Lang), Charley Drayton(B52's, Don Henley, Fiona Apple), Rob Genadek(Peter Himmelman, John Gorka, Keri Noble), Enrique Toussaint(SACBE international jazz), Jeff Victor(Honeydogs), JT Bates, Noah Levy, James Buckley, Matt Novachis, Jon Herchert, Joshua Stookey, John Lemkuhl, Will Charleton
THIS SPRING COURTNEY WILL BE OUT AND ABOUT WITH A NEW TRIO: COURTNEY ON ELECTRIC AND ACOUSTIC GUITARS AND VOCALS, ROB GENADEK ON DRUMS AND SAMPLES FROM THE NEW RECORD, AND JOHN LEHMKUHL WITH HIS ARSENAL OF ELECTRIC GUITARs AND EXTREME COLLECTION OF EFFECTS. (The new live show is energetic and rockin'. Courtney comes off as somewhere between joan jett and lucinda williams, with a chrissy hind and the pretenders middleground.)
Influences: Courtney Yasmineh's songwriting has been influenced by the work of Bob Dylan, Cat Stevens, early Elton John, John Lennon, Stevie Nicks, Paul Simon's Graceland record, Peter Gabriel's solo work, Suzanne Vega, Joan Jett, Nancy Griffith, The Gin Blossoms, The Wallflowers, Bright Eyes, one song from Folk Implosion, Kanye West's first record and his new fourth record, Emmylou Harris and Daniel Lanois on Wrecking Ball, Billy Jo Armstrong's writing on the American Idiot record, the Dixie Chicks last record, Tegan and Sara, the Clash, Annie Lennox, Amy Winehouse, Cheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams, track 2 of the Fleet Foxes record...........and the literary works of Charles Dickens, Theodore Dreiser, Willa Cather, Thomas Moore, Marcel Proust and Emile Zola, John Steinbeck, George Eliot........the list is ever expanding
Sounds Like: feist meets cat power meets fiona apple meets tom waits and leonard cohen at bob dylan's house
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