77 & Granite is kind of just a huge family, but here is the nucleus:
Avi (77) sings and plays Les Paul & acoustic guitars, bass, drums and shaky shaky egg;
Elana (Granite) plays telecaster and acoustic guitars, bass, and the pedal steel, and sometimes sings;
Niko sings and plays acoustic guitar, bass, organ, and piano;
Naomi plays the drums
影響
angela davis, architecture, being queer, calculus, city living, criminal injustice, country living, crop circles (and other evidence of extra terrestrial life), decay, equine science, rust, the ocean, the sound from the centre of the universe, trans liberation
Emmylou Harris, Hank Williams, Gillian Welch, Grandaddy, Levon Helm, Loretta Lynn, Low, Mates of State, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Old 97's, Ozark Mountain Daredevils, Pure Prairie League, Team Dresch, Whiskeytown.
風格近似
clatter, chugging tugboats, dirty, cruddy, old refrigerators, lots of teeth in jars, a banjo, possibly another banjo, an oil rigger, and reconstructed country rock. AKA the most awesome band you have ever heard!
77 is a highway in the Carolinas. Granite is the Rock in the "Live Free or Die" State. 77 & Granite was a country-rock band from Brooklyn.
Avi & I started 77 & Granite as an all-queer, prison-abolitionist acoustic country duo. When we realized that all of our sessions ran late into the night and left us thirsting for more, we decided to put together a band. We experimented with electronic music, taught each other new instruments, and arrived at a slower, subtler sound. After several trips to New Hampshire to record our compositions with local country-rock and experimental musicians, we settled back down in Brooklyn with Naomi (drums) and Niko (guitar, bass, piano, organ). The 77 & Granite Quartet is often augmented with fiddle, vocals, drums, bass, and guitar playing by our friends and family. ~elana
**As of May, 2008, the members of 77 & Granite have gone our separate ways. Please check out Niko's work with Dan from the I Hate My Day Jobs, and a new country-folk project from naomi and elana called The Dove and the Crow.
www.myspace.com/thedoveandthecrow
Thanks for everything!
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