Member Since: 8/2/2006
Band Website: erichein.com
Band Members: The musicians are always changing but here are the usual sit-ins:
Eric Hein : guitar, vocals, harmonica
Mike Phelan : bass, banjo, backup vocals
Chris Hein: guitar, backup vocals
Dan Handelman: drums
Dan Cyr: drums
Influences:
Anything with guts: favorites include (in no particular order) Bob Dylan, Clapton (the bluesman), The Tragically Hip, Muddy Waters, Lightning Hopkins, Neil Young, Beck, The Beatles, Ryan Adams, Nick Drake, The Grateful Dead, The Meters, and many others.
In terms of literature, influences include John Updike (Rabbit Run), Vonnegut (Slaughter House-Five), Hemingway (The Sun Also Rises), Evelyn Waugh (Decline and Fall), Ian McEwan (Enduring Love and Amsterdam), Michael Ondaatje (The Collected Works of Billy the Kid), Miriam Toews (A Complicated Kindness), Walt Whitman (Song of Myself), Zora Neil Hurston (Our Eyes Were Watching God), Kate Chopin (The Awakening), F-Scott Fitzgerald (The Great Gatsby), and so on.
Sounds Like:
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Type of Label: None