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  • Genre: Blues / Folk Rock / Roots Music

    Location Amherst, Massachusetts, Un

    Profile Views: 119887

    Last Login: 12/14/2011

    Member Since 3/6/2006

    Website www.rustybelle.com

    Record Label self-released

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    Rusty Belle is a junk-folk trio based out of Amherst, MA. At the root of the band are Matt and Kate Lorenz who, after many years of sharing the same cassette tapes, decided to get form a group. The two met drummer/guitarist Zak Trojano in 2006 in a big old group house situation and convinced him to bring the skills and join the band. In duo-form, the Lorenz siblings go heavy on the percussion. Matt plays a one-man-band set up of suitcase, washboard, a babyshoe pedal and gas can and classical guitar; Kate rips up washboard and a pared-down snare/floor tom/cymbal deal, and the two lay down tight, powerful harmonies around clever lyrics and musicality. Add Trojano with some slide guitar, an additional high-hat and a sweet country voice and you've got something pretty tasty. Rusty Belle recorded two DIY records, two albums with Bankrow Records, and recorded their most recent album, On A Full Moon Weekend, at Signature Sounds with Mark Thayer. That's just the beginning. . . .... ..You should create your own ..MySpace Layouts.. like me by using ..nUCLEArcENTURy...COM's ..MySpace Profile Editor..!.. .... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ...... ...... .. ...... ...... ......

  • Members

    Matt Lorenz - Voice, nylon string guitar, fiddle, foot-drums. Kate Lorenz - Voice, washboard, glockenspiel, drums. Zak Trojano - acoustic and electric guitars, drums, vocals

  • Influences

    going to the dump. sitting by a river. other musicians, such as Etta James, Tom Waits, Leadbelly, Bessie Smith, Lightning Hopkins, Nina Simone, The Band, The Stones. most of us were raised on Rock'n'Roll, so. . . "...One of the more interesting bands to come into my periphery in a while... They're a little bit country, a little bit rock'n'roll, a little bit old-timey and a whole lotta weird. But in a good way. This quartet mashes genres as if they were tasty little sonic potatoes. " -Dan Bolles Seven Days Burlington, VT

  • Sounds Like

    "Rusty Belle....This is some clever shit...clever both musically and lyrically..if that's all there were to it you could leave it, but it's like clever with a sledgehammer and a knife. I love it."- Chris Smither. "...a band that can hand you your ass, or make you miss your mom."-Tom Friedmann, The Message "Rusty Belle has a curious, compelling habit of coaxing very different, even huge sounds out of a relatively small stable of acoustic instruments. Some tunes offer harmonies reminiscent of '60s folk, others country blues, and still others a plaintive, swinging melancholy. The common thread is the brother/sister vocalizing of Matt and Kate Lorenz, a unified presence even when things get cacophonous. Influences abound, but there's not really anything else exactly like Rusty Belle." —James Heflin of The Valley Advocate Matt and Kate Lorenz harmonize with the intuitive strength of siblings while laying down a percussive layer of junk-drums, classical guitar and an odd array of melodic instruments. Expect to hear anything from a whiskey lullaby or a tiny tango to a rock anthem or a smoky blues. Poignant, honest lyrics with a rustic, dusty feel. Rusty Belle is unpredictable, original and raw. It is a convergence of styles. Not a knew genre, but a fresh approach. Whatever the flavor is, it's mixed up good. Dirty kids with badminton guitars making a backyard hootenanny. The front yard lemonade stand in deep summer, a middle-yard secret meeting in the clubhouse under the rhododendrons with cookpot helmets and broomstick getaways.It looks like just the mess you'd want to stumble upon in an attic. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..

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