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Travis Hendrix and the Blessed Moonshiners

About Me

Rodin (a.k.a. Travis) is a musician yielding from Santa Rosa, CA who performs, records, and produces the entirety of his own music (with occasional guest performances). He draws inspiration for his music primarily from his interest in southern, scandinavian, and celtic folk, classic literature, and ancient philosophy. His musical influences include the likes of Skip James, Hobart Smith, Jimmie Rodgers, Chatham County Line, Rice Miller, Howlin' Wolf, Al Stewart, and many different artists recorded by the singular Alan Lomax.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 09/05/2006
Band Members: Travis Hendrix - Vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, upright and fretless acoustic-electric bass, drums, keyboards, mandolin, miniature maracas, clarinet, harmonica, miniature elecric pipe organ, batyphone, soprano saxophone, accordion, spoons, tamborine, tin whistle, pizzicato violin, human whistle, lap steel.

On The Mountain Tragedy:
Seb Shader - Violin
Piano - Ben Weiner
Electric Guitar - Hadley Black
Kevin Gonyo - Bass Clarinet
Jake Wendt - Tuba

Live:
Josh Jackson - Bass
Ben Weiner - Drums
Emily Benecke - Violin and Vocals


Influences: Ayn Rand, Sam Walton, Vermeer, Charles Dickens, Oscar Wilde, Ken Burns, Dan Aykroyd, Satoshi Tajiri, John Stetson, Rockefeller, Hank Crawford, Saul Williams, Jerry Seinfeld, Aristotle, Simon Blackburn, Agatha Christie, Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Socrates, Cervantes
Sounds Like: A bipolar renaissance-era composer attempting to write bluegrass for a crowd of turn-of-the-century novelists.
Record Label: Object Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

An album is coming

I am currently in the process of recording an album of approximately 9-12 tracks. Six of these are already completed, and the rest could be done anytime between next winter and two weeks from now. I e...
Posted by on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 01:22:00 GMT