Member Since: 26/03/2006
Band Website: This is it...for now.
Band Members: Sometimes it's just me. Sometimes it's a band.Band has included:Voyce McGinley III - percussion
Mona Tavakoli - percussion
Kirk Brundage - percussion
Craig Ferguson - pedal steel and mandolin
Nate Crow - percussion
Influences: Townes Van Zandt, Johnny Cash, Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Hank Williams, Leonard Cohen, Billy Bragg, Dick Gaughan, Guy Clark, Steve Earle, Bill Monroe, Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Bill Morrissey, Utah Phillips, Warren Zevon, Woody Guthrie, Doc Watson, Jimmy Martin, Dave Alvin, Bruce Springsteen, Ben Harper, M.Ward, David Dondero, Tony Tidwell, Frank Sinatra, Buster Keaton, Joe Maphis, Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant, Wilco, Tinariwen, Issa Bagayogo, Ali Farka Toure, Johann Buis, Julien Dembele, Toots and the Mayals, Bob Marley, Horace Andy, Jacob Miller, The Meditations, Si Kahn, Robert Johnson, Snooky Pryor, Johnny Shines, Patti Smith, Ralph Stanley, Kris Kristofferson, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, The Band, Los Lobos, Quetzal, John Lee Hooker, Roy Buchanan, Little Richard, The Replacements, John Prine, Neil Young, Greg Brown, The Carter Family, Lucinda Willians, Vic Chesnutt, Emmylou Harris, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, Velvet Underground, Richard Buckner, Alfred Hitchcock, Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Anna Akhmatova, Boris Slutsky, Andre Tarkovsky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Shibari, Henry Miller, Arthur Rimbaud, Antoine De Saint-Exupery, Wilton Barnhardt, James Dickey, Thomas Wolfe, William Least Heat-Moon, Richard Ford, Charles Bukowski, The Louvin Brothers, Ted Hawkins, Jack Logan, Son Volt, Uncle Tupelo, Elder Roma Wilson, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, Steve Forbert, Don Walser, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, The Mavericks, Robert Earl Keen, Elvis Costello, The Pogues, Richard Thompson, Gram Parsons, Nick Drake, Bill Kirchen, Danny Gatton, Skip Heller, Jeff Buckley, David Bowie, Lightning Hopkins, Junior Kimbrough, Hank Garland, Junior Brown, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Johnny Horton, War, Lenny Bruce, Bill Hicks, Billy Joe Shaver, Nick Cave, Henry Rollins, Jimmy Scott, Patsy Cline, Boozoo Chavis, Billie Holiday, John Coltrane, Minor Threat, Charlie Pride, Chet Baker, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Michael Shermer, Julia Sweeney's "Letting Go Of God", Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, Bart Ehrmann, Susan Jacoby, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernest Tubb, Phil Ochs, Joe Hill, Honeyboy Edwards, Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch, Iris Dement, Serge Gainsbourg, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Fela Kuti, Taj Mahal, Charlie Parker, The Fairfield Four, Nina Simone, Ildefonso Ramirez, Henri Cartier-Bresson, O.Winston Link, Andre Kertesz, Weegee, Diane Arbus, Nan Goldin, Garry Winogrand, Jeff Brouws, Robert Frank, Edward Hopper, Walker Evans, Harry Callahan, Horace Bristol, Andy Goldworthy, Lewis Hine, Brassai, Tseng Kwong Chi, Harry Crews, Mark Twain, Eric Bogosian, Ilia Varcev, motorcycles (got first one for my 9th birthday - go Dad!), empty roads, experience and the places I've been, the things I've heard, tasted, touched, smelled, seen, remembered, forgotten and anyone who's ever had something to say that grabbed me by the collar and made me pay attention.
Sounds Like: Me.
Record Label: Gritbiscuit Records
Type of Label: Indie