Marc Koch - vox, acoustic guit, kazoo
Steve Dahlberg - vox, tele guit, trumpet
Steve Eddy - drums
Kirk Larson - fretless bass
Matt Dollar - pedal steel guit, banjo
Influences
Johnny Cash, Old 97's, Jason and the Scorchers, Dave Dudley, The Ramones, Bob Wills, X, Hank Snow, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, George Jones, The Smithereens, Carl Perkins, Sonic Youth, Dean Martin, The Band, Iris Dement, Lyle Lovett, Elvis Presley, Willie Nelson, XTC, Buck Owens, Wanda Jackson, Presidents of the U.S.A., Red Sovine, Red Simpson, The Minutemen, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Dwight Yoakam, Hank Thompson, The Butthole Surfers, Ronnie Self, Lefty Frizzell, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Gang of Four, Merle Haggard, Rush 2112, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Bobby Fuller 4, The Rolling Stones, Joy Division, Foo Fighters, Waylon Jennings, Loretta Lynn, The Everly Brothers, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Paul Revere and the Raiders, Hot Snakes, Robert Earl Keen, Tammy Wynette, Reverend Horton Heat, The Velvet Underground, Green Day, The Fall, Al Di Meola, King Crimson, Bob Dylan, REM, Buddy Holly, Elvis Costello, Lynyrd Skynrd, Roxy Music, The Dixie Dregs, Radiohead, Steve Earle, Faron Young, T. Rex, The Paladins, Hank Sr, The Who, John Prine, Brian Eno, Big Black, Jim Reeves, Al Dexter, Patsy Cline, Souxsie and the Banshees, Jimmie Lloyd, George Strait, Social Distortion, Randy Travis, Southern Culture on the Skids, Nazareth, Patty Loveless, The Offspring, Ferlin Husky, The Cars, The Jam, Neil Young, The Au Pairs, Clint Black, Tom Waits, Roger Miller, Jerry Reed, The Cramps, Vince Gill, The Jayhawks, The Turtles, The Talking Heads, The Kentucky Headhunters, The Dandy Warhols, Truckstop Honeymoon, The Sex Pistols, Adrian Belew, The Embarrassment, The Dead Kennedys, The Mavericks, Junior Brown, Lucinda Williams, The Dresden Dolls, Roy Orbison, Alice Cooper, Commander Cody, The Monkees, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Jaco Pastorius, Bob Marley, Ten Years After, The Meatpuppets, Lou Reed, Stevie Ray Vaughan, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mando Diao, New Grass Revival, Black Sabbath, Los Lobos, Eddy Arnold, Judas Priest, Siouxsie & The Banshees, Van Morrison, Emmylou Harris, The White Stripes.
Sounds Like
Honky-tonk like a shot of cheap whiskey at a gourmet restaurant
Cryin' Out Loud is an eastern Kansas area band that has been playing its own blend of swingin' twanged-out garagabilly honkytonkification for a handful of years now around the area in bars and clubs, at weddings and parties, on farms and in pole barns, and in city parks and cafes. The members are all veterans of and represent a diverse and rich lineage in the Lawrence, regional, and in some cases national music scene reaching back through the early 1980's.
These guys' eclectic roots in punk, classical, ballad, jazz, and yester-year'sear-splitting garage and alt rock appear today as nuances in a unique blend of traditional and modern, driving and melodic, recognizable and obscure. Or more simply, this music ranges from ass-whoopin' stampede stomp to tear-in-your-eye raunch to nice n' pretty. The Cryin' Out Loud sound is created by players whose musical journeys have collectively traversed jazz and classical, college alt-rock and punk, folk and country, hillbilly and rockabilly, progressive rock and blues, Deadhead and psychedelic, subway-singing and coffee-house acoustic story-telling, with a bit of reggae and ska and even experimental electronica thrown in along the way. Not to worry though; you won't hear any experimental electronica at a Cryin' Out Loud show.
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