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Gena Rowlands Band

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THE GENA ROWLANDS BAND...plays songs about b-movie starlets, x-movie starlets, ex-movie starlets, Academy Award Winning Actresses, people born in the wrong skin, blonde strangers, barstool wisdom, bad parties, the Eisenhower Interstate system, and Kong's words with Jesus in the aftermath of a rough first date. ............................................................ ............................................................ .. “It's tragic, hilarious, brilliant writing,” according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Flesh and Spirits is The Gena Rowlands Band’s third full-length recording for Lujo Records - their most focused, cohesive, and catchy work yet. ............................................................ ............................................................ ..For this album, GRB ringleader Bob Massey assembled a virtuosic band of Washington, DC’s most acclaimed musicians. GRB regulars Jean Cook (who also plays with Beauty Pill, Ida, and Jon Langford) and David Durst were joined by Vin Novara (formerly of CrownHateRuin, Oswego and Canyon) as well as Jason Caddell and Eric Axelson (formerly of The Dismemberment Plan). ............................................................ ............................................................ ... The result is eleven instantly memorable songs built on Massey’s trademark lyrical formula that combines dry wit, a grappling with darkness, and glimmers of love and light. If the band’s debut (La Merde et Les Etoiles) was the soundtrack for a night of heartache, Flesh and Spirits is the jolt to get you out of bed in the morning. ............................................................ ............................................................ ... Flesh and Spirits was recorded and produced by Chad Clark of Beauty Pill (Dischord) and TJ Lipple of Aloha (Polyvinyl) of Silver Sonya, in Washington DC’s legendary Inner Ear studios. ............................................................ ............................................................ ... The GRB has toured with Andrew Bird, Enon, The Dismemberment Plan and others. In March 2007 the band will make their third appearance at SXSW in Austin, TX, as part of a tour of the southwestern U.S. A tour of the entire U.S. will follow in May 2007. ............................................................ ............................................................ ... The Gena Rowlands Band are graduates of the Washington D.C post-punk community. But what you hear is utterly unexpected. Strings stolen from a b&w movie score or New York's experimental scene. The skitter of jazz brushes. A voice that draws more power from a whisper, a wry lyric, or a soulful falsetto than a scream.
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Member Since: 27/10/2004
Band Website: www.genarowlandsband.com
Band Members: Gena Rowlands Band - Love, For Want of a Lesser Word

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++ Bob Massey - voice, guitar, piano - has played with the Out_Circuit, Telegraph Melts, Tsunami and others. ............................................................ ..................................................... ++ Jean Cook - violin and viola - has played with Beauty Pill, Ida, Jon Langford, Jenny Toomey and others. ............................................................ ...................................................... ++ David Durst - organ, keys - has played with Maritime, Troubled Hubble, Likeness to Lily, Fast Eddie and others. ............................................................ ..................................................... ++ Eric Axelson - bass - has played with The Dismemberment Plan, Maritime, and Statehood. ............................................................ ..................................................... ++ Jason Caddell - lead guitar - has played with The Dismemberment Plan, Cex, Rose and others. ............................................................ ..................................................... ++ Amy Domingues - cello - has played with Fugazi, Mary Timony, Jenny Toomey, Garland of Hours and others. ............................................................ ...................................................... ++ Luther Gray - drums - has played with Ida, Tsunami and others. ............................................................ ...................................................... ++ Johanna Claasen - double bass - has played with the Most Secret Method, Lincoln, and others. ............................................................ ..................................................... ++ Eric Bruns - clarinet - has played with EBSK, American Workplace and others. ............................................................ ...................................................... ++ Lary Hoffman - vibes - has played with Aerialist, Mr. Lary and the Kids and others. ............................................................ ......................................................... ++ Danielle Seiss - flute - has played with Paradigm9 and others. ............................................................ ......................................................... ++ Brian Fending - udu - is a mysterious man. ...............................................
Influences: The wind, streetlights, the sound of car wheels on rainy pavement, the dim glow from the apartment across the way, her, some place I've never seen.
Sounds Like: THE GENA ROWLANDS BAND......plays songs about b-movie starlets, x-movie starlets, ex-movie starlets, Academy Award Winning Actresses, people born in the wrong skin, blonde strangers, convenience stores, bad parties, the Eisenhower Interstate system, and Kong’s words with Jesus in the aftermath of a rough first date. It’s late-night music. Have a smooth beverage.But what does it sound like? The Gena Rowlands Band makes the sounds you put on, alone in your apartment as you look out over the strange city at night, wondering who all those people are, and how they managed to find each other, and is it last call yet?
Record Label: Lujo Records (lujorecords.com)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

March 20, 2009. Los Angeles.

Friends!A rare event: Bob plays solo in Los Angeles. Friday, March 20, 2009. 9pm (for real).1519 Griffith Park Blvd. near Sunset Junction.There will be art and drink. And also other music by The Movie...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Feb 2009 10:52:00 GMT

Strange Times

Funny how time moves. You can walk into a movie theater and come out having experienced a lifetime. You can lose nine months and it seems like a week. The headphones are on the head but no music is pl...
Posted by on Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:04:00 GMT

Circle

I used to hate the band that sang this:I quit.I give up.Nothing's good enough for anybody else, it seems.And I quit.I give up.Nothing's good enough for anybody else, it seems.And being alone's the bes...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:00:00 GMT

The 2007 Summer Jam?

It's summer!Where I come from back in The Nation's Swamp the advent of summer always meant one thing: We must determine the identity of The Summer Jam.Generally, The Summer Jam identifies its own sel...
Posted by on Mon, 25 Jun 2007 11:34:00 GMT

The world of information.

I think it's clear that, officially, The Gena Rowlands Band just doesn't blog enough. But where do all you people find the time to build this vast new infrastructure of humor and pathos? We (the royal...
Posted by on Tue, 15 May 2007 07:35:00 GMT

Endless Summer

It's about to be November in the endless summer of Southern California. You can tell because the mosquitos are gone and sales of hoodies are up. The windows have remained open for the last 13 months. ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 01:59:00 GMT

August = Loot homes of the idle rich.

June was hot as blazes in Washington, DC and New York City, where the GRB recorded a new full-length (No. 3) and played some shows to celebrate the release of our second record, The Nitrate Hymnal. Ju...
Posted by on Mon, 21 Aug 2006 15:42:00 GMT

A brief report from SXSW 2006

S X S W 2 0 0 6 Please consider buying our new record, THE NITRATE HYMNAL, to help pay for our ill-fated visit to Austin. Thank you.The Gena Rowlands Band
Posted by on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 22:26:00 GMT

Greetings from Tularosa

Different house, different street, different view from my window. Now it's a lemon tree and some famous hills. Hummingbirds. A dependably blue sky. Sometimes I miss the view down 13th Street at night,...
Posted by on Tue, 24 Jan 2006 14:19:00 GMT

The Magic Hour

There's a reason the GRB site lists shows under the heading 'The Magic Hour.' Madeleine L'Engle wrote a bunch of fiction that I've never read. But her book, "Walking On Water: Reflections on Faith...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Sep 2005 12:52:00 GMT