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Mystkdog

About Me

Mystkdog began its musical journey in March of 2008 as the brainchild of singer, songwriter, and guitarist Todd Verts. Verts began to record songs to serve as the sonic basis for Mystkdog while gigging locally and searching for like-minded musicians. During this time, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jack Benedict was writing, recording, and occasionally gigging locally as a solo act. Verts and Benedict were introduced by a mutual friend and a fast friendship was formed. Soon, they began kicking musical ideas around and threw in together to save bus fare. The music of Mystkdog is the result.With the emphasis on telling stories of everyday life, Mystkdog is hard at work writing, arranging, and recording songs for a soon to be released cd, and tracks are posted in their various stages of development, as well as other interesting gems and out-takes.The 'dog is on the loose...

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Music:

Member Since: 21/05/2008
Band Website: http://www.mystkdog.com
Band Members: Todd Eric Verts:
Vocals, Guitar, Bass Guitar
Jack Benedict:
Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin

Additional musicians :
Jess Paul:
Vocals/Backing Vocals
Tim Fogarty:
Guitar
Chris Lord: Lead Guitar on "Little Man"
Influences:Life is a major influence; it would be hard to not be influenced in someway, whatever the genre, by artists such as Woody Guthrie, Hank Williams, Elvis, Bill Monroe, The Beat Writers, Jazz legends such as Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman; Blues legends Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Robert Johnson; The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. This being said, some of the favorites are: The Band, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Lou Reed, Willie Nelson, John Fogarty/CCR, Jerry Garcia/The Grateful Dead, Tom Waits, The Eagles, U2, The Pogues, The Doors, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, X, Steve Earle, Richard Thompson, early Genesis, Chet Baker, Roy Orbison, A.I.C., Don Williams, The Mavericks, 16 Horsepower....just to name a few....
Sounds Like: The soundtrack to life lived on the fringes....the music playing in your head when you get home but don't know how you got there.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

And so it begins....

Here it is: the very first blog entry on the Mystkdog music page. For starters, thank you for stopping by to check out the songs, and for reading this here blog. Very kind of you! The songs that are ...
Posted by on Sat, 31 May 2008 21:44:00 GMT