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Slow Trucks

About Me

The odd production of a shy insomniac, a band of merry influences, and a forever revolving band. We whisper, roil (occasionally boiling and popping) but always dragging the sound from our hearts.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 14/04/2006
Band Members: Core:

Travis- Acoustic guitaring, Banjoing, Voicing, Writing.

Revolvers:

Alex: Electric Guitaring, Acoustic Guitaring, Drumming, Bass Guitaring, Pianoing, back-up voicing.
Kate: Marimbaing, Musical Sawing, Voicing.
Eric: Bass Guitaring, back-up voicing.
Jason: Drumming, Banjoing, E-Bowing.

Influences: Sufjan Stevens, James Taylor, Jeff Mangum, Colin Melloy, Joni Mitchell, Harvey Danger, Radiohead, Daniel Johnston, The Mountain Goats, Devendra Banhart... Some new york underground folk duet I heard in a city cab while driving to see what juilliard looked like, I only heard one song before the station switched over but it was important to me. Nick Caceres.
Sounds Like: the nature of things.
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

iTunes sales of CD, coming sooooon!

"DIVORCE" will hopefully be for sale in your local iTunes library soon."DIVORCE" includes such tracks as:Botanist (Pharmacist)Russian FolkBroken Collar BoneI think I am going to hellChurch MusicSeattl...
Posted by on Mon, 25 May 2009 22:09:00 GMT

Take me down to your dancefloor.

Through pain we rekindle our old vows to the dead remarking with anemic ambivalence through repetitivecat scratch bee stings, how sad.  It is doubtful that the ink really reminds,because death is al...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 23:29:00 GMT

Sometimes, I write poetry, I guess.

I have bloodI have blood that move all around in meI have handsbig hands and long fingersthey can touch you, they dream about itmy blood runs through themand they are dead at their endlike uslike us!I...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:34:00 GMT

For those in search of track listing!

For the new 16 song demo here are the tracks in order:1. Euphrates2. Mutatis Mutandis3. A small song for no one*4. Cigarette Field5. Morticians Daughter6. Botanist/Pharmacist**7. My Seattle*8. Rushin ...
Posted by on Sat, 20 Oct 2007 00:22:00 GMT

Oh, oh, if only we were drinking!

Track listings for the next (self-produced) album, and then some other stuffHaven't decided what to call it yet, and still compiling gear but these be the songs:1. A Small Song for no One2. Rushin' Fo...
Posted by on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 02:41:00 GMT

What the hell is he saying?

In case you wanted to sing along with Euphrates I'll put the lyrics up for youon the banks of that lonely mountain, a slow stone came tumblin' down the Tigris, it was pickin' up red rocks and roots, d...
Posted by on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:47:00 GMT

Goodbye my bastard muse

You treated me like a home and a hell should.  If you haven't heard, Iksnelib vacates Seattle today... officially, indefinetly.  I'm not so far away and since you guys are a huge music scene...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Dec 2006 09:08:00 GMT

Two hands on my nuemonic(?) pulse

California was a wonderful disaster, people are fading, new (old) sparks bouncing back into my life and restarting a fire I could of sworn I saw fading only days before.  I played another set at ...
Posted by on Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:07:00 GMT

Potential

Fingertips like footprintsHike a scenic shallow spinewith a filthy undernail nails that hammer nails that shineso you can pin up all your picturesall your old sins and your scriptu...
Posted by on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 15:32:00 GMT

Russian Folk (it's new new new lyrics lyrics lyrics)

Composin' all the long lawn chairslike a chessboardall around the birthday boya little more than he'd hopedCake smear, what mother made him wearhe digs a deep holenew home for the dogs bonesand he say...
Posted by on Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:55:00 GMT