I'm a member of the Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang, Some Say Leland, and Larkspur, and for my gigs I usually play with Marty Rigby on lead guitar (also lead player on the demo songs), his son Naiman on harmonica, Adam Kobetich on banjo, hopefully the coolest kid in school, Lindsey Verrill on the bass, Darren Kobetich on mandolin, guitar, dobro, or any other instrument the talented bastard has picked up at the time, Alli Reece with vocals, the hauntingly beautiful voice of Dabney Rigby, and just about anyone else who will come jam with me (Thank you all!)
Influences
Anything that I hear, from dueling banjos to traffic jams, and all of the emotionally charged moments that move me to write and make music. More specifically (and in no particular order), Patty Griffin, Marty and the Crackbabies, Alli Reece, Tori Amos, Rachel Bissex, Adam Kobetich, Erik the Orchestra, Diasporic, Rusted Root, Ashley McCulloch (now Parkinson), Leonard Cohen, Dabney Rigby, Beethoven, all my Lubbock peeps (viva la Five Subject Notebook!), Green Mountain Grass, Mr. Oliver Steck (bringing joy to the faces of New Orleans volunteers with his happy insanity), the Redstick Ramblers, Michael Franti and Spearhead, M. Ward, the ueber awesome Some Say Leland, Manny and the Brokeback Boys, The Lovers, Ween, Jason Webley, Heart, Jon Hogan, the Be Good Tanyas, White Ghost Shivers, Raina Rose, Darrin Kobetich, The South Austin Jug Band, Reverend Glasseye and his Wooden Legs, Johann Wagner, Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven on the piano got me my first love, I'd never heard of Led Zeppelin, but I learned the song because it sounded like a nice Christian song (I was a good southern baptist girl)), the Scabs, Sick and Raina, Gary Graves, Michael Shay, Tom Waits, Spoonfed Tribe, Zoe Lewis, Gary Graves, and a whole lot of others that I know I'll remember as soon as I'm done with this...
Sounds Like
My friends call it porch music. Let me know what you think.
My love affair with music truly began at the age of seven when my mom got me into piano lessons. As I was studying the work of Beethoven, it was said that he always had a song in his head, and I thought to myself, "Well, golly gee! That's just like me!" My first vivid memory of singing was, ironically enough, on my first cross country trip with my family in an R.V. singing along to a Joe Scruggs tape, thinking, "Gee, I kinda sound like one of the backup singers." I then went on to learn many many classical songs and the bass clarinet in band, but then when they said that I couldn't march in high school with the bass clarinet, I decided to "rebel" and learn the tuba (my dad played had played it in high school, and I wanted to strengthen my reading of the bass clef for the piano.....I don't think it helped, but it sure was fun.)
I picked up the guitar about four years ago when I realized that the piano wasn't portable (and all I could afford was one of those cheap casio keyboards that I would rather pawn for rent than consider a piano surrogate). My friend Alli Reece had started about the same time, and learning along with him really helped to boost my desire to get out and write songs. Folk You! is a dream still left hanging in my stars. About three years ago due to a ride situation where I was trying to move to Lubbock, I ended up volunteering at the Kerrville Folk Festival, and my musical life has never been the same again. I definitely attribute this demo CD to my desire to be able to swap music with the many other talented musicians out there.
It was at the festival this last year that I met the handsome and very talented Mr. Adam Kobetich, who has touched my life in so many ways. He was not only the first person that I could jam with, but he helped me to reach one of my dreams of being able to play bluegrass. I am the fifth (of six) member of the Electric Mountain Rotten Apple Gang, and very happy to be playing and singing with so many talented musicians.......so, yeah. That's me in a gruesomely large nutshell. Manny and the Brokeback Boys have arrived!!!! Check us out at www.myspace.com/mannyandthebrokebackboys. Three guesses as to who I am, and I'll give you a hint: it ain't the pretty one, that's for sure!!!! Any questions???
Hey Dumpsta Gurl, just wanna say that last coupla times I seen youz Gang play, it was really bad-ass. A well oiled machine, one might say. Tight shit, yo.
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