The Back Row Baptists
When asked why Birmingham singer/songwriter Chris Porter assembled the back Row Baptists his reply is simple, and direct. "I wanted to make something real." After years of consistent touring and recording with his alt-country bar burners, The Stolen Roses, Porter seems to have finally found his voice. "I'm sick of the lack of substance in country music! There has been so much heartache and turmoil to hit the Gulf Coast in the last decade its hard to believe that there hasn't been an honest voice to rise from the rubble."
The Back Row Baptists are a collection of reluctant troubadours straight from The Magic City, who's musical roots are as deep as the iron buried in its soil. Sarah Green (The Sunday Lovers, The Good Neighbors, and formerly of the Contraband) holds down duties as vocalist, drummer, and band parole officer. Handling the task of providing the soul and wisdom that only he can, Heath Green's duties include vocals, piano, harmonica, and bartender. Next comes the incomparable Stephen Riley on the upright bass guitar, Susan Nuckols (the contraband, Blue Galaxy, Wayne Newton, Neil Diamond, and God knows who else) on the fiddle, and the sonic insanity of Adam Guthrie (PAIN, The Wayne Mills Band and the Starmakers) and his Ukulele the Baptists have a sound and a show to be reckoned with.
The Back Row Baptists will be touring in support of there freshman release "Me and the Devil" throughout the year, and they will be looking to release a new full length record before the summer comes down hard on Birmingham Alabama.
