Member Since: 12/14/2005
Band Website: landonarkens.com
Band Members: Just me. Some of my pictures show me playing in other bands. Those bands have made a glorious comeback from the fate of failure and frustrated fizzling-out.
Influences: I want to start writing songs like Bruce Cockburn and Mississippi John Hurt. I want to coin a genre called "dark lullabies." I want the next generation of emo-lugans to have suckled on my songs from birth. And I want them all to fall with pockets full of posies when they discover that I, their nursery father, was not the tender-hearted, whiney bitch-queen that they’ve all become.
Jeremiah Nelson (Patchwork, guitar/vocals) and Adam Cargin (Airborne Burn Victims, drums/beer) have been incredible musical collaborators. Their influence is undeniable.
And another thing... my Mom wrote a book. I can recognize qualities that I’ve gleaned in the way I write my words from the way she writes her words.
Sounds Like: I ripped off a lick from Sesame Street in "Somebody Else." I borrowed chords from Rick Nelson in "Alone." I learned how to stand on stage from Peter Mulvey. I learned how to sit on stage from Chris Smither.
Type of Label: Major