Music:
Member Since: 1/16/2006
Band Website: hirthmartinez.com
Band Members: Hirth Martinez: guitars, vocals, lyrics, electric bass, piano...he does it all!Hirth has also performed/recorded with: Donald Fagen, of Steely Dan, John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful and the colorful members of Japanese band, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Valerie Carter and Teresa Bright.
Influences: Bob Dylan, Jackson Pollock, Picasso, Mirot, Joe Pass, Bob Dorough, Johnny Mercer, Jean Genet, Richard Rogers, Al Hendrikson, Jack Kerouac, Barney Kessel, Henry Miller, Kenneth Patchen, Walt Whitman, Wes Montgomery, Chet Atkins, Julian Bream, Slim Gaillard, Clif "Ukelele Ike"Edwards, Joe Liggins, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Ornet Colman, Wynton Kelly, Hank Jones, Allen Ginsberg, and Monnot Lawrence and Rouzard who wrote "The Poor People of Paris" which was Hirth's favorite song as a kid.
Sounds Like: Starlight and showers, long, lonely hours upon some mountain high inches from the sky watching time go by, strolling on a late afternoon, got nowhere to be pretty soon, like some free flowing stream, all things are free in a dream.
Record Label: Dreamsville & Warner Bros.
Type of Label: Major
