Have you seen Whild Peach? Chances are you have. In the past two years theyve performed all over the world with Platinum selling, Grammy award winning hip-hop super stars Outkast. If you missed them on the Stankonia tour then maybe you caught them on:
Saturday Night Live
HBOs Chris Rock Show
The 2004 Grammy Awards
The 2003 American Music Awards
The David Letterman Show
BETs 106 And Park
HBOs Reverb
MTVs TRL
The Tonight Show w/Jay Leno
Good Morning America
The Dave Chappell Show
The ESPY Awards
The 2004 MTV Video Music Awards
Imagine a rock superstar mothered by Nina Simone And Fathered by George Clinton, a musical Frankenstein love child with the left arm of Jimi Hendrix, the right arm of Bootsy Collins, and the soul of James Brown. With the vocal chords of Janis Joplin and Aretha Franklin. A lanky, multi-instrumentalist who raids the wardrobe of Sly and has the cool of ten Princes. If you can fathom such a creature, I present to you Whild Peach and their brand of Slunky music.
Forming in Dallas, Texas, Whild Peach made the move to Atlanta in 1994. After their deal with Capital Records went sour, the band started over again on the show circuit hitting the biggest venues in Atlanta. After breaking down Atlantas genre partitioning walls, the band assembled a bandwagon on which the likes of Atlantas most respected artists jumped.
While the rappers tend to get all the credit, Hip-Hop music particularly the southern kind, which relies heavily on live instrumentation doesnt get made without the work of musicians like the ones that make up Whild Peach. Theyve spent the last ten years working on projects with Goodie Mob/Joi/Cool Breeze/Lil Will/ Khujo Goodie/Sleepy Brown/The Ali Movie Soundtrack/The Scooby-Doo Soundtrack and most notable among these efforts is their collaboration with Outkast. Beginning on Outkasts second album and continuing on to their newest record, Speaker Boxx/The Love Below (which includes two songs co-written by the band), Outkast and Whild Peach formed a relationship that included co-writing, lending a hand on vocals and instrumentation and eventually manifested itself as Whild Peach becoming the backup band on the groups tours.
But Whild Peach is more than just a backup band. In addition to their work on Outkasts tour dates and their hectic studio calendar, the band has started a busy touring schedule of their own playing over 100 dates in the last year at colleges, nightclubs, concert venues and festivals all over the United States. Theyve opened for Erica Badu, Goodie Mob, Ohio Players, War, Fishbone and Chingy. This soul-Rock, Slam-Down groups tight ensemble includes guitarist/vocalist David Whild, funktress/lead vocalist Peach, drummer Tuesday Henderson, bassist/vocalist Blue Gomes and guitarist Matt Hollums. Do yourself a favor, make plans to see Whild Peach.
Discography/Collaborations
OutKast - Speakerboxx/The Love Below
Co-wrote Church & Bust
Performed on I Like The Way
You Move Church, Bust, Unhappy,
Ghetto Musick, Flip Flop Rock, Reset,
Happy Valentines Day, Bowtie and War
Outkast - Aquemini
Co-wrote Liberation
Performed on various tracks
Khujo Goodie - The Man Not The Dawg
Produced, co-wrote & performed on "Pimpz & Hoz" & "Shawtly"
Pink - Cant Take Me Home
Performed on You Make Me Sick re-mix
Raphael Saadiq - Live at the House Of Blues
Performed on all tracks
Big Gipp - Mutant Mindframe
Performed on "Creeks"
Killa Mike - Monster
Performed on "A.D.I.D.A.S." and Monster
OutKast - Big Boi & Dre Present Outkast Greatest Hits
Performed on The Whole World
OutKast - Atliens
Co-wrote You May Die
Performed on various tracks
Goodie Mob - Still Standing
Produced & co-wrote "Just About Over", performed on "Just About Over" & "They Don't Dance No Mo", "I Feel Resposible" and "The Walk"
Sondtrack - Scooby Doo Original Movie Soundtrack
Performed on "Land Of A Million Drums"
Backbone - Concrete Law
Performed on Yes Yes Yall, Believe That and Under Streetlights
Soundtrack - Tomb Raider Original Movie Soundtrack
Performed on "Speed Ballin"
Soundtrack - Ali Original Movie Soundtrack
Performed on "Set Me Free" & "Death Letter"
Dungeon Family - Even In Darkness
Performed on "Follow The Light" and "Rollin"
Slimm Calhoun - The Skinny
Performed on Dirt Work, Current Events and Red Clay
OutKast - Stankonia
Performed on various tracks
Witch Doctor - Witch Doctor
Performed on Goo Goo Eyes
Lil Will - Wrote, co-produced, & performed on I Still Love You, performed on Georgia Girl
Soundtrack - Shaft
Performed on Automatic
TLC - Fanmail
Performed on "Silly Ho"
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