Ronnie Rivera, drums; Steve Evans, bass; Herman Eberitzsch, keys & backup vocals; Ian Lamson, guitar; Carl Trent, cungas and backup vocals; Monique Timberlake, pedal steel; Natasha James, guitar & lead vocals.
Influences
Janis Joplin, Bonnie Raitt, Bob Dylan, Odetta, Young Rascals, Youngbloods, Buffalo Springfield, Crosby Still Nash & Young, Traffic, Brewer & Shipley, Joy of Cookin', Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, Leonard Cohen, Judy Collins, Ian & Sylvia, Simon & Garfunkel, Brownie McGee & Sonny Terry, iBessie Smith, Tim Buckley, Joan Baez, Susan Reed, The Rolling Stones, Roger Miller.
" Country after country, it’s a landscape of the mind. So many lifetimes up ahead, so many left behind. Well, I guess, I always wanted them all, but only some of the time, I guess I was born, The Restless Kind." -- Natasha James
She's the consummate singer-songwriter and the kind of unique artist who can craft visuals merely through her songwriting. Natasha pens works that cross many musical genres and pull at the heartstrings all music lovers... especially country music enthusiasts.
Check out her new release, “Bad Judgements” on the Highway One Records label. Natasha James is a Sonoma County, North Bay based musician/artist steeped in the Americana, Blues/Rock, Country tradition. It is music that is solidly based in the storytelling tradition, but unlike most music from singer/songwriters, Natasha James' unique musical sound wraps itself around a solid and diverse percussive backdrop, incorporating elements of Bluegrass, Norteno, Zydeco, and second line as well as blues forms ranging from Delta to the Stax-Volt era
Thankx Natasha for the add request,great site, great tunes, and I've heard great things about you from Phil too! Hoping we can do show together sometime in the near future. SD
