Misty Lyn: Songs, Guitar. Matt Jones: Drums. Jim Roll: Bass. Carol Gray: Fiddle & Tambourine. Ryan Gimpert: Pedal Steel & Electric Guitar. Colette Alexander: Cello. Variations of all of the above.
Influences
Matt Jones, Suzanne Hancock, My Bandmates, Chris Bathgate, Matthew (Iman) O’Brien, Brandon Zwaggerman, Detroit, Minneapolis, Ypsilanti, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Elliott Smith, Ethan Johns, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nina Nastasia, Rita Mae, Dabenport, The Replacements, Breathe Owl Breathe, Big Star, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, James Christopher Monger, John Steinbeck, The Pine Trees in the Bethel Church Graveyard, Pixies, Kelly Eno, Neko Case, 100 Years of Solitude, Bukowski, Lou Reed, My Family, My Backyard, The Pretenders, Joe Henry, Danny Kline, Andrew Bird, My 1999 Dodge Intrepid, The Cure, Big Blue, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Metallica, Loring Park, Chuck T’s, John Mellencamp, The Great Lakes Myth Society, Hair bands, Soaring Gas Prices, Great Lighting, Vintage T-shirts, Merlin, Neil Young, Scio Church Road, Lake Michigan, People with the guts to live passionately, do what they love, and say what they think...and lately, I am influenced by
Sounds Like
Remembering the fall. Folding in the winter. Reaching for the warm.
As a contingent of the rising Michigan indie/folk scene, Misty Lyn pens haunting melodies over simple arrangements that traverse the gothic, literary fringes of American roots music. Pulling from a wealth of vivid, melancholic subject matter, her songs are cathartic and poetically rich works that stand boldly on their own, but when accompanied by her quartet, the Big Beautiful, realize new potential. She writes of her childhood struggles and the ensuing trials and tribulations encountered while working toward a greater purpose in life. While her music also celebrates the simple joy of being alive, there is always a common thread of nostalgia for things that are lost and those that are fading.
"It was in the 19th century that faith in science invited an analogous faith in history: that history has laws, that it could be known, that it followed a pattern. What we believe now--certainly what I believe--is very different. History is impossible to penetrate, and that is its great richness." ~R. Kapuscinski
As our friend you are probably happy to know that we have started taken Pre-Orders on our new album "For Moments Never Done". Whenever you feel like it you can check www.cirrhaniva.nl.
Thanks so much for playing the 'dAP event last night. You guys are just so absolutely talented that we were so blessed to have you on our bill! Thank you!!!!!!!!!!
