"Durham's minimalist duo turns stripped-down swamp rock into amp up alt-rock excursions that are heavy on the vocal drone, wallops of explosive drumming and piercing riffs." - The Independent Weekly, Durham
"The first time I performed in public was in English class after I'd missed an assignment," remembers Rebekah Meek, also known as Eberhardt. "The teacher asked us to turn in a poem, and I asked her if I could sing instead ... I kinda liked it."Meek kept her songs mostly to herself for the better part of a decade. Then, two years ago, she linked with Colin Booy to form Eberhardt, creating a sound she calls "swampy" from drums and guitar—"kind of a dark atmospheric sound with a lonely cabin and whiskey bottles clanking in the background."After Booy left the band in December, Meek began working on new material she describes as a little alt.country. "It's not all about dead sailors and broken relationships anymore, and the sound is brighter," she says. —Kathy Justice, The Independent Weekly, Durham
We once were a duo. Now eberhardt is a solo project with plural tendencies. eberhardt was mostly recently seen hollerin' and foot stompin' with Colin Booy (SOC Rovers), Heather Williams, Kym Register (The Midtown Dickens), Mike Hacker (Future Kings of Nowhere) and you.
Sometimes it's just eberhardt. one guitar. one microphone. one foot pedal tambourine.
The solo/duo ep will be released on April 5th.
eberhardt has played at venues like BCHQ, 305 South, the Nightlight, and Duke Coffeehouse with bands like des_ark, Beloved Binge, the Numbers, TWIN, the curtains for night, Sweater Weather, Cantwell, Gomez and Jordan, Midtown Dickens, Future Kings of Nowhere, Megafaun, and Dead Elephant Bicycle.
Oh and we love to ramble, but we love Durham more.
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1.19.08 at the Nightlight by Bonnie from Sequoya
