Member Since: 3/14/2006
Band Website: earlgray.com.au
Band Members: Cazoo - Buchman; Triangle - Nick "the wild dog" Maybury; Tambourine - Kristian "pimp hop" Attard; Rhythm sticks - Jivan Jordan
Influences: Sly Stone for his laughing brilliance and D'angelo for his tempered control. The eccentric stoned old swagger and whimsical tales of the Duke Ellington. Jimi Hendrix in Third stone from the sun, as appolynian god of sublime creation. The sage Coltrane. The glory of the Heptones. Bob Dylan - in (God on our side) as songwriting's summa cum laude. Bob Dylan in (visions of Johanna) as songwriting's TS Eliot. Bob Dylan (in to ramona) as songwriting's first and still, best 'singer/songwriter'. The populism of Bob Marley and always the most popular John Lennon. The 5 personalities of Mingus, Tom Waits; the brawler and the bawler, The heart of the Congos, Pharrell, Howlin Wolf, Robert Johnson, Eric Dolphy, Stevie Wonder and Marvin Gaye, Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, Alicia Keys for being that girl you meet and spend a whole night with talking bout music, Erykah Badu for being that girl who your dreaming about while in bed with Alicia, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Beatles, the hyms of Leonard Cohen, the militancy of Black Uhuru, Sly and Robbie and Burning Spear, Syd Barret, My Morning Jacket, Outkast, Roots Manuva, Taj Mahal, Sly and the Family Stone, Curtis Mayfield; Jimi as singer songwriter, Elliott Smith, John Lee Hooker, Bo Diddley, Radiohead, Brownie Mghee, Cornelius, Nick Drake, JJ Cale, The Meters, Tortoise, Miles Davis,
Sounds Like: At my best you may hear; Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams, Ben Harper, Alicia Keys, Pharrell Williams, Erykah Badu, Beck, Fiona Apple, Citizen Cope, the Shins
Record Label: Creative Vibes
Type of Label: Indie