I sing and play percussion with Nyles Lannon and band members Yukimasa Kasuya, Tim Hingston and Donny Newenhouse. You can check it out Nyles at myspace.com/nlannon.
I am also on a mission to start a solo project to call my own with a little guitar, some vocals and whatever else I can come up with.
Influences
compost, islands, Bob Dylan, sunburns, sea hares, ice cream, pedal boards, Nina Nastasia, blue guitars, family, new friends, open mic nights, Nyles Lannon, bike rides, old friends, passports, Gillian Welch, Patty Griffin, socks with holes, adventures, Radiohead, The Beatles, campfires, plankton, Orion, coffee, and a good nights sleep.
"There's certain voices which convey a certain emotion... I'm thinking Emmylou when she's singing soft and Patty Griffin when she's singing loud, but what emotion is that? I can't think of its name, and perhaps it doesn't have one, but what it does is it grabs at the back of your spine and tickles your neck and can cause even the saddest of whiskey drinkers to put down their drinks and look up. Whatever it is, Laurie Henry delivers it. I think its a mixture of moxie and vulnerability, vibrato with a cool confidence - I'm not sure actually, and perhaps I shouldn't try to define it... I will say this though: when Laurie gets up there the room gets real quiet and the rowdies cease to be rowdy and then her voice drifts down ... ... well, I put my drink down and I look up." ~JJ Shultz, Host of Hotel Utah's Open Mic
