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the mayflies

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General Info

  • Genre: Bluegrass / Jam Band / Roots Music

    Location IOWA CITY, Iowa, US

    Profile Views: 59021

    Last Login: 7/25/2011

    Member Since 3/21/2006

    Website www.themayflies.com

    Record Label Mud Dauber Records

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    The Mayflies are a party—a delightful mess, a crazed amalgam. Electric and acoustic, fast and slow, a bewildering explosion of hectic elation and angry loss. They’re the rock end of roots and the country end of rock, and as such, they’re hard to describe, but impossible to forget. The Mayflies are a band you walk away from after a single hearing, humming the chorus and wondering, “I could swear I’ve heard that somewhere before…” What ties it all together, what unifies their songs and their sounds—is a quality of movement. Movement in Stacy Webster’s frenzied sweat-flinging guitar that owes as much allegiance to Django Reinhardt and Willie Nelson as it does to Jerry Garcia. But also movement in the skittery picking of traditional bluegrass. In infinite ways, The Mayflies jump and race, slow and sway. They never stand still. And although their music is unquestionably Americana—a distinctly Midwestern mix of blues and country guitar, folk and rock lyrics, fiddle and banjo—The Mayflies are also a firm bridge to that rabid universe of live music, that head-bobbing, crowd-shouting, young and wild world of jam and jazz. They Mayflies allow themselves to improvise, but as fiercely talented, serious musicians, they never lose themselves, or their songs, in that experience. With the nuanced, livid, jazz drumming of James Robinson, and the undeniable backbone that is Dave Lumberg on bass, The Mayflies translate as few jam bands can, from the live stage to a tight recording. A Thousand Small Things preserves some of the frenetic quality of a wild live show, but these songs never alow themselves to be untethered. They don’t noodle or wander too far. They come back, always, to their lyrics, their melodies, their roots. Artful and purposeful, devoted to storytelling and tradition, with a clear sense of pathos and place, The Mayflies take jam rock to the edge of energy. Then they pull back a little, to leave a listener wanting more. Noteable acts with who The Mayflies have shared the stage; Banyan, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Alejandro Escovedo, Robbie Fulks, Asleep at the Wheel, Vince Herman, North Indiana Allstars, Hot Buttered Rum, Cornmeal, Honky Tonk Homeslice (Bill Nershi of String Cheese)...... Sign up for our Email news and gig alerts!! .. Name: .... Email: .... Address: .... City: .... State: .... Zip: .... Country: .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

  • Members

    Stacy Webster- Guitar, Vocal.. Dave Lumberg- Bass, Vocal ..James Robinson- Drums..Gabriel Baillegeon- Mandolin, Banjo, Mandocello, 5 string eletric mandolin, Vocal...Natalie Brown- violin, accordian, piano

  • Influences

    Grateful Dead, The Who, Beatles, Bad Livers, The Band, Fred Neil, Gram Parsons, Art Blakey, Doc Watson, Leo Kottke, Led Zep, Bluegrass Music, various classic country, blues and jazz artists.

  • Sounds Like

    Take a peek from our Colorado Tour in April 2009 Branches of Willow~ .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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