Zak Salazar-(Guitar/Vocals/Banjo/Harmonica) Sean "talks with trees" Young (Bass) David Nereo- (Mandolin/ Recording) Ayla Nereo- (Vocal/Muse)
Influences
Bob Dylan. Neil Young. Old Crow Medicine Show. Okkervil River. The Band.
Sounds Like
Folks never go to East Orange, New Jersey, it's a horrible town. I went there to play in a coffee house in East Orange, New Jersey. It was a chess playing coffee house out there. It was so bad...uh...so bad, people playing chess out there, Uh...that's all they thought about out there was chess and chess and chess. People come up to me, you play your song, you play you a real quiet song. In the middle of the song you hear "Check", And "Hey, that was a good move" and all kinds of stuff like that. I quit in two days I went there to ask the guy for my money. I says "Can I have some money, I worked two days for ya?". He says..uh.."Well OK, we don't pay you money around here though" I says "Uh..Yeah?", he says "Well" he says..uh.."Yeah, we pay ya chess men", I said "Uh, well give me my chess men then, I worked two days". I sort of...didn't really figure, I thought he was lying at first, but I took it anyway. He gave me a king and a queen for working two days.I said "Fine, that's OK". So I took my king and queen and went down to a bar, nearest bar I could find. I walked in the bar and I ordered a pint. I..I got on the bar, "Bartender", I says "Can I have a pint?" I'll be damned if he didn't give me a pint. He asked me for the money. I gave him my king and queen. I'll be damned, you know he took that king and queen, threw it under the counter, and brought me out four pawns, two bishops, and a rook for change.
"Zak showed up late and played probably four more of his songs than the audience wanted to stomach. His songs are among some of my favorite troubador tunes in Santa Cruz, partially because they are written about a romantic situation full of hilarious drama that we all know about and are all tired about so when he's singing his wishes for a girl in the song to choke we all know that its about somebody there, sitting next to that boy, with whom she sleeps in his garage. It's a fun kind of tension that he brings up and it never gets old. Zak was accompanied by a banjo player that played the exact same thing as he. The (unintentional?) comedic high point was when Zak said 'Take it away!' and then he, himself, took it away on the harmonica."-Hell yeah!
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hi! i have become preschool teacher in sweden and i NEED the first songs that you recorded in santa cruz to play during nap time. please, can you make them downloadable? thank you, and i hope that you are well!
i'm a proud father...! dude, can you believe it? the chick jusr sent me a home video of the lil bastard like two weeks ago...! how cute is he...i want you to be his god mother...! you down?
fellows, your music is so right up our alley and we hope we might share a stage with you sometime soon. in the meantime, come hang out with us for free next week.
yay! i'd be honored to teach you, although i am not much of a fiddler myself. do you think you could teach me slide guitar? what city of are you calling home these days?
hey zack its John from tandys class first quarter.. I think I saw you at the open studios but I wasnt sure, well anyway we should play some music before I leave for summer which is this coming thursday
