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If you're looking for a band with a lot of original variety of sounds and great vocal harmonies, then, Movin' Target is the perfect band for your venue. Featuring "Multiple" lead singers, rich instrumental mixes and several creative songwriters. The original material is clever and home-spun, covering the classic love songs to the front porch philosophies that anyone can identify with, mixing sounds of Americana, Roots, Rock, Country and R&B originals with a list of standard covers. For lack of a better word, Roots Rock Americana, may vaguely describe the music.
Movin' Target has just released their new CD, UnPegged , which has been in process for almost a year. Fueled mostly by the writing of Jim Wyly, Movin' Target, as the name implies, moves around from genre to genre and some instrumental switches as well. It is a four, five, six, seven or eight piece band, according to the venue, with a blend of guitars, keyboards, midi-guitar, harmonica, lots of percussion and vocal harmonies. And don't be surprised if a fiddle or sax is sitting in for the evening.

This seven-piece group is somewhat unique in the fact that four of the band members sing lead vocals. "We span several generations and formats, from Country, Americana, Rock and R&B," said founding member and head writer Jim Wyly. All band members are writers and the influences portray a long list of diverse styles, stemming mainly from the late 60's thru early 70's music.

Mike Arterbury and Jim Wyly have known each other for over 30 years and have singing together for years. About four years ago, they hooked up with his son, Mark, and a friend named Larry Murray and started jamming together. They slowly picked up the other guys; Eddie Penix , Riley Hickerson and Gerald Lowen , and Movin' Target have been playing together ever since.

"We're very confident about our original music because we started off playing in bars where covers are king, and we got away with playing mostly original songs right from the start. The cover tunes we do are carefully selected from our individual influences”, said Jim Wyly.

In 2004 Movin' Target won best Americana Band and Best Songwriting at the "Texas Music and Entertainment Awards" in Arlington. Movin' Target  has the blend of genres,  vocals and new material that will keep your patrons locked in from the first song till the last. The smooth vocals of Mike Arterbury, the flexible and acrobatic vocals of Mark Arterbury, stylistic performances of Jim Wyly and Eddie Penix, some tasteful Fiddlin' , the somewhat hard edge of Eddie Penix on the bass, the Harp from Riley Hickerson and the creative drum spins of Gerald Lowen, keeps the sounds fresh and interesting through out the evening.

Catch a Ride on the Movin' Target Train.

Movin' Target performs in several different formats. You might find Jim Wyly doing a single singer songwriter act, or Jim, Mike and Mark doing a trio or several different acoustic variations, besides the main band performances..