Member Since: 11/15/2004
Band Website: sawwheel.com - coming soon!
Band Members: R.J. Cresswell - acoustic guitar, harmonica and vocals
Justin Smith - recording engineer, backing vocals, acoustic guitar and many other instruments
Jenny Cresswell - the wife
Jeremy Zills - videographer and sometimes roadie
Influences: Against Me, Avail, Tim Barry, B.B. King, Billy Bragg, The Black Keys, Bright Eyes, Johnny Cash, Cedell Davis, Chuck Ragan, David Dondero, Dax Riggs, Deadboy and the Elephantmen, Drag The River, Eagles of Death Metal, Frankie Stubbs, Hank Williams, Hot Water Music, Howlin' Wolf, Mississippi John Hurt, J.W. Warren, Leatherface, Leadbelly, Lucero, Lightin' Hopkins, John Mellencamp, Muddy Waters, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Precious Bryant, Charlie Patton, Queens of the Stone Age, R.L. Burnside, Rumbleseat, Robert Jonson, Sonvolt, Bruce Springsteen, This Bike is a Pipe Bomb, Uncle Tupelo, The Weakerthans, Wilco, Whiskeytown, and Whiskey & Co.
Sounds Like: Saw Wheel – The Next Train, CD"Saw Wheel is RJ. A guy with a beard, a flannel shirt, acoustic guitar, harmonica and a road worn but rich voice. He sings songs about drinking brown liquor, working shitty jobs and not knowing where certain roads are gonna lead that I think is both an analogy for the uncertainties of life AND just being lost as fuck after too much of that brown booze. Granted the best way to experience these homespun and personal (but still kind of punk- he covers Avail’s Lombardy St) accounts is in a smoky bar or in front of a smoky campfire, but the recording is good and the songwriting sound."Tim Scott
Screaming Bloody Mess
Record Label: No Idea, Pizza Wolf, Hill Billy Stew, Team Science
Type of Label: Indie