Member Since: 2/6/2008
Band Website: myspace.com/jdaldridgemusic
Band Members: JD Aldridge - lead guitarist, lead and harmony vocals, specializes in slide /
Gary Bostick - lead vocals and harmony vocals, keyboards and acoustic and electric rythm guitars /
Scott Woodruff - bass guitar, harmony and lead vocals /
Paul Langley - drums, bongos and other noise making items
Influences: as a writer my biggest influence was my mother. As a young boy I remembered my mom coming home from her job at the Blue Bell clothing plant in Red Bay, Alabama, and taking out all of the little notes of paper that she had written different lines to songs on thruout the day, while at her job. She would take all of those scratch notes and work on them and before you knew it, she would have another song written. I love all of the songs my mother wrote, and still sing some of them from time to time. Other influences on my music in general were all of my 'hometown music heroes' around when I was growing up around Red Bay between the ages of 10 to 15. The Hollands consisted of sister Robbie Mae who played piano at the Ten Acre Field Church Of God for years and years and her sons Arvis and Jerry who always made music when they were around and were patience enough to let a novice like myself sit in when ever they could. Also The Seahorns, Billie, Gene, and Randy. Randy and I later played for a number of years in a great southern rock band called 'Daybreak', along with Tim Malone, Donny Stephens and Brent Sparks. Randy and I wrote a lot of songs together. He left this world of ours too soon and I miss him dearly. There were also the gang out at Fowler's Garage that I believe Randy and Jerry Thorn used to let me go with them to hear now and then. Jerry's sister Kathy Ivey was and is one of my favorite singers since way back then. And gosh I have to say my drive probably came because of the fact that my good friend Lionel Leathers would always let me stay at their practice garage even during closed practices, for his band, Phoenix. I would sit for hours and listen to Lionel teach and instruct his band members on how to apply theory to performance and I soaked up every word he ever told them about why you needed to accent here and punch there and compliment this and that. It was a life lesson in music. I couldn't begin to tell you how big a part those times played on my never giving up on this business. Thanks to all of them.
Sounds Like: In my early days they always told me I was too rock for country or that my songs were too different. Later when I toned myself down and tried to write more traditional styles, they told me I was too much like everyone else. I decided to just to what ever the heck I wanted to do in the way I want to do it. So that's what I sound like now. Sometimes too different, sometimes too much the same but always........ always......... like me.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie