Member Since: 8/26/2004
Band Website: thehonestvoluptuary.com
Band Members: LNT (silvertone, melody maker, rhodes, piano, voice), gene v. baker (drums, hammond, voice), devon mcclive (cello), brendon 'boy moses' massei (bass, guitar, voice), kurt kotheimer (upright & electric bass), colin held (guitar, whales), melissa metrick (accordian)
Influences: gavin bryars' "jesus blood never failed me yet" & "the sinking of the titanic", leonard cohen "field commander cohen", susanne vega "world before columbus", sibylle baier, prokofiev "dance of the knights" +woozy music; chiming & glorious mono; hymns, torch songs, fight songs, good choruses; anything artfully and honestly done; especially these albums: Bob Dylan "Time Out of Mind", Neil Young "Harvest Moon", Radiohead "OK Computer", Rasputina "Cabin Fever", Nina Nastasia "The Blackened Air" and certainly: Patsy Cline, Tom Waits, Shannon Worrell, Judy Garland, Electric Light Orchestra, Nina Simone, Neutral Milk Hotel/Jeff Mangum, Edith Piaf, Pablo Casals, what Wilco and Billy Bragg did with Guthrie remnants, Fleetwood Mac, The Kinks; and finally, these A-sides: "Whiter Shade of Pale", "96 Tears", "Oh How Happy", "Dream On", "Waterloo Sunset"
Sounds Like: milk glass
Type of Label: Indie