Jascha Herdt is a graduate of Sheridan High School and Sheridan College. He grew up a drummer with guitar on the side, playing in high school bands and local jazz combos. A love for the blues prompted him to pick up the electric guitar and learn the intricate stylings of Stevie Ray Vaughn, B.B. King, Albert King, and Jimi Hendrix. You’ll find Jascha anywhere he needs to be in a jam. With a good feel for lead playing and a drummer’s sensibility for rhythm, Jascha’s style drives music forward and upward, the way good roots music wants to be.
Micah Wyatt, a Sheridan, Wyoming native, after years of playing cello in classically oriented groups, picked up his grandfather’s acoustic Epiphone and never put it down. After years of bouncing around from blues to bluegrass open jams, he finally decided to learn and expand on the songs he loved the most. Driven by a fierce love of folk rock and jam-band music, Wyatt is mostly a rhythm man, although rare days will find him hammering out acoustic melodies.
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Much to their surprise, but also to their utter rapture, roots music brought Jascha Herdt and Micah Wyatt together in the fall of 2006. Both students at the University of Wyoming, the two guitarists played together for the first time in September and found that a mutual love for early blues, soul, jazz, reggae, folk, and rock music had infected them both beyond cure. Only a few months later, they were playing together on a regular basis, relying on a common musical heritage and a love for creating the magical and elusive jam to keep them truckin’. The “almost acoustic” duo weaves sometimes familiar, sometimes progressive melody and harmony lines together in ways that surprise even them, and pride themselves in being able to breathe new life into old standards. Though much of their repertoire is cover tunes, the duo’s ever expanding library of original songs reflects the roots that first inspired them.
