Michael Hurder - Singing, Organ Keyboard, Knob Twiddling__Elliott Conley - Guitar, Slide, Fuzz__Max Horwich - Drums, Vocals, etc.
Influences
The Beatles, Stephen Sondheim, The Funk Brothers, The Velvet Underground, Miles Davis, Igor Stravinsky, La Monte Young, Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, Animal Collective, Pavement, Tennessee, Abbie Hoffman, Randy Newman, Nat King Cole, IM Harjito, A Band Called Wanda, Can, David Bowie, Prince, Spirits, Self, Post-Modernism, Charles Mingus, James Brown, Friends, The Beatles, Roxy Music, Radiohead, George Gershwin, The Stooges, The Pink Floyd, MGMT, Hunter S. Thompson, Prentiss Hobbs, Bo Diddley, Peer Pressure, Miles Davis, Beck, Anthony Braxton, Spacemen 3, Van Morrison, Anti-anxiety Medication, Hippies, Ludwig van Beethoven, Silver Apples, The Zombies, Funkadelic, Nothingness, Everythingness, My Family
Sounds Like
There are free downloads of MORE of my MUSIC at ANOTHER WEBSITE - greengrocer.bandcamp.com. There's even some classical music. You could also BUY the music at said website using PayPal, and then I would send you a limited edition handmade CD. Fancy that.
After spending his youth learning to sing, play piano, trombone, spoons, bass, guitar, gamelan, accordion, organ, didgeridoo, drums, and raw noise, Michael Hurder had to get all the noise out of his bedroom, so he created Green Grocer. With a resonant, 3 octave voice that can bring to mind Frank Sinatra, Tom Waits, or Joe Cocker (with stage banter that "sounds like an NPR announcer!"), Hurder writes and sings about the relationships, real and imaginary, that shape our lives. While his songwriting is rooted in folk music, Green Grocer arrangements send the melodies into uncharted territories. The catalog includes over a hundred songs, a symphony, a string quartet, as well as other unclassifiable works. __________________________________________________________________
Green Grocer spent much of 2009 recording, releasing the "Picture of the Year" EP; live recording "Know Your Grocer"; and the LP’s Fun Time Gospel Hour and Summer. In May, the first video “I Feel Fine” was filmed and directed by Kenny Reed. All media is available for preview at greengrocermusic.wordpress.com, and more videos are forthcoming. (“That video could have been directed by Michel Gondry!” – Bob Rock, Chicago MC) Currently playing the blues using a 404 sampler and a Casiotone, live Green Grocer performances also feature Future Folk Records impresario, Max "Sewing Machines" Horwich on drums and guitar conjurer Elliott Conley. In concert, the band has been described as "possessed," "marketable," "a little different," and "the next big thing." Come see why.
