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About Me

Useful Jenkins was created from friends jamming around campfires. Pat and Lucas had been playing guitar together off and on since 2004, never playing shows, just some open mics, and campfires. In 2006, Josh came along and brought his drum to some campfires. It wasn't long before he was doing open mics with us and we had written our first few songs. Meanwhile, in the fall of 2006, Travis snuck in through the backdoor and surprised the hell out of all of us. We had stumbled upon a fairly unique sound, and wanted to keep it rolling, so we asked our good friend Ryan to play some bass for us.The 5 of us have been Useful now for just under a year, and if you still have no idea what Useful Jenkins is, you'll have to ask us at a show. :)

*You can also get a copy of the album at PROFESSOR'S in Mankato*

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 29/06/2006
Band Website: www.usefuljenkins.com
Band Members:

Pat Forsyth

Lead Vocals
Guitar

Lucas Volz

Mandolin
Lead Guitar
Vocals

Travis Blunt

Guitar
Vocals
Didgeridoo

Josh Harvey

Congas
Djembe
Auxiliary Percussion

Ryan Donahoe

Bass
Vocals

For booking email us at [email protected]

If ya just want to chat email us at [email protected]

Influences: are so many they are hard to vocalize. life, love, nature, people, places, politics, friends, family, freakshows, walmart :( Fast Eddie :), digeradoo's, digeradont's, drums, Harmony Park, Rivers, lakes, streams, thoughts, prayers, dreams, hope, suffering, sorrow, yesterday, today, and tomorrow, we are all (even you) constantly influenced by everything around us, present and past, good and bad, and I believe that is what Useful Jenkins is all about.
Sounds Like: a celebration of jam, bluegrass, reggae, and folk. High energy, tribal percussion, and delicious kazoo solos.
Record Label: Front Porch Productions
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Thank you so much for your support!! Here's a little teaser.....

Ok, so we've been taking our sweet ass time, we know. But we wanted to make sure everything was in it's proper place before we set everything in motion.It's been just about 2 years since our first le...
Posted by on Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:03:00 GMT

Useful Jenkins Street Team

So, this is still in the works, but we're looking for a crew of people to get crowds to live shows when they come through your city. Every one has more fun when there's more people to party with righ...
Posted by on Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:20:00 GMT

Friends...

As we get closer to the day when we hit the studio and begin our first album, I can't help but think about these last two years leading up to it. So many great times it's hard to even begin to pick a ...
Posted by on Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:11:00 GMT