Member Since: 10/25/2005
Band Website: JennWertzMusic.com, rustedroot.com
Band Members:
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Influences:
.Rickie lee Jones, Katell Keinig(jet),The Rollin’Stones; Buttons,Beggars,Exile,Let it Bleed,Sticky,jammin with Edward,yayas,gimmeshelter,most good old (Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed, Muddy)blues,and really any old rock and roll records that influenced the second wave( chuck berry,buddy,everlys,gene vincent and blue caps,etc,etc)
Neil Young, CRazy horse,the KingBobDylan,the Band,Broken Social secene. Alcohol and Weed, Beck, Queen, Pretenders, Zeppelin, the GoGos, theReplacements, ELO, talking heads, Franz ferdinand, Blondie, Ben Harper(cruel world!!!),..the Stray Cats
beach boys, New Invisible Joy,Everly brothers, Buddy Holly, Cat stevens, james taylor, elton john, (but mostly just madman across the water)INXS before kick.
bruce Cockburn, j.buckley, Cowboy Junkies trinity sessions, wildflowers by Tom Petty, the Cars, Roxy Music, marianne Faithfull, the police, the Talking Heads(esp. the naive melody)
Gary Musisko,Nick Drake, AnitaPallenberg, Michael Jackson;pre thriller,the Kinks, crawlin’lowband, Trevor Hall, the Sweet, the Babies, Joan Jett,Peter Case, Ike and Tina Turner,Gov’t Mule, John Cash, Billie Holiday, Janis, Tom Waits, the Clash, Elvis COSTELLO!!!, Coldplay-rush of blood, old Rusted Root, U2, the Frames,Velvet Underground,the Doors(morrison hotel),Aerosmiths first record only,Chaka Khan with Rufus. I love me some Steely Dan, PFloyd, and Zappa, but only really in small doses
I love cheesy, emotional pop hits from the 70s, like;rich girl,sara smile, and shes gone by Hall and Oates, Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty...exile and Firefall,Nick Gilder, and too many other one hit wonders to name.
Movies; anything involving
barry pepper, cate blanchett,edward norton,james dean, rita hayworth,sam rockwell,maggie gyllenhal, daniel day lewis, bill murray,John Cusack,Kate Hepburn, wes anderson,John Cassevetes....
Memento, dog day afternoon,the unbearable lightness of being,the deer hunter,rebel without a cause, east of Eden,the celebration, Five Easy Pieces..Harold and Maude, Rushmore, shine, slingblade, royal tannenbaums, best in show, Performance, Gimme Shelter, groundhog day, usual suspects..team america ,american beauty,sexy beast, the French Connection,Casablanca, Being John Malkovich, Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, twelve Monkeys, Brazil, the Fifth Element, Galaxyquest,the piano, the pianist, Flirting with disaster,the Shining,Michael Moore flicks,the Fountain,Elizabeth, Koyandiscansci(sp),Monty Python, Boxof moonlight, the last temptation of Christ, made in heaven, defending your life..,dumb and dumber, the ice storm,Secrets and Lies, Angels and Insects, About a boy, High Fidelity too too many ..
The Fountain
Record Label: indie
Type of Label: None