Jeremiah Sammartano - vocals, guitars, harmonicas, and on the new recordings - bass, accordion, percussion and various other intruments.
The Red Eyes: Lauren Austin (vocals, mandolin, banjo, guitar, percussion), Johnny G. d'Artnenay (upright bass)
James Morgan (bass), Kyan Wynuck (drums), Dale Warner (bass), David Garza (drums), John Lacques(drums), Jimmy Paxton (drums), Eric Douglas(drums), Dominic Elliott (bass), Frank Lee Drennen (harmonica), David Cates (drums).
Just Above the Ground @ Norm's 6/09
Screaming and Hollering the Blues @ Norm's River Road House Feb. 11 2009
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Some Favorite Albums: Monkey On A Chain Gang, Red Roses For Me, Marquee Moon, Surf's Up, More Fun In The New World, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Tim, Songs The Lord Taught Us, Electric Warrior, Zen Arcade, The King Of The Delta Blues Singers, Exile On Main Street, Station To Station, The Modern Lovers, Horses, Phases And Stages, Bringing It All Back Home, Bewitched, Hollywood Town Hall, Live At The Regal, Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, The Band, Moanin’ In The Moonlight, The Who Sell Out, The Sun Sessions, Sweetheart Of The Rodeo, Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, Radio City, Canadian Amp, Astral Weeks, The Velvet Underground, Nebraska, Bryter Layter, Butch, Loveless, Dummy, The Trinity Sessions,Mule Variations…
April 2009 - Nashville, TN.
Originally from Los Angeles, CA. where they spent time being a part of the vibrant Americana/Country/Roots rock scene - moved to Nashville in October of 2008 to further follow dreams in Music City by continuing to create music influenced by the Delta blues of Charley Patton and Howlin’ Wolf, the raw, brilliant sounds of the Replacements, the lyrical, romantic and often raucous sounds of The Pogues, and the genius of Tom Waits.
November 2009 - Back in Los Angeles and making plans for the release and tour for Under Your Spell - ready to see some new places and to continue writing and playing and expanding the Red Eyes crew.
In 2004 the debut album "Red Eyed and Restless" was released on the independent Bull Stud label which captured the raw spirit of the band and found critical acclaim and radio programs around the world.
A new album, the 10 track "Under Your Spell" has been completed and will soon be released.
Review of Red Eyed & Restless
JEREMIAH SAMMARTANO ****** (translated from French)
Red Eyed & Restless
Bull Stud Records
This young California man with the allure of a south-american Indian (his origins?) has been
working hard since 1990, from bars to dives, from encounters to experiences, and who has all
the same made 3 discs, arrives suddenly with an original album, excessively exciting and even
a little disturbing. Between minimalist country ballad, alternate rock and tortured blues, with a
caressing or sliding guitar, acoustic or plugged in, the songwriter Jeremiah Samartano, who
goes simply by his first name, practices a music pure, whose authenticity must have it's origins
in his long years of wandering. His music, punk and traditional, coming out of nowhere if not
far-away lands, is a sort of cross over whose references are at the same time from some found-
ing fathers of the blues (Charley Patton, Muddy Waters and Howlin Wolf for example) but also
from another sphere, more alternative and rock: Paul Westerberg, ex-guitarist of the disbanded
Replacements, and most of all a band of musicians based in Arizona at Cave Creek.
In spite of all this, the music remains rather faithful to the tradition of Delta Blues and this
too-short (for me) album, recorded live in the studio with the bassist and producer (of this cd)
Dale Warner, and drummer Jimmy Paxton, captures perfectly the spirit (wit/intelligence) of
Jeremiah and his music. The singing is raw, mocking, the guitars rough, and the sound crude.
It's magical and spellbinding, the type of thing that makes you vibrate...
This artist has his sentiments "a fleur de peau" (note from fran: this means he is very sensitive,
but I can't think of an idiomatic phrase in English to translate it), the talent to write, the truth at
the end of his guitar and the sincerity of a real music. MAGIC!!
His objective from here forward: come to do a tour in Europe.
- Francis Rateau
Programme 'Hot Time'
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