Reid and Kathryn Johnson, Billy Alphin, Maria Albani, and then Tripp Cox, Megan Culton, Wes Phillips, Nathan Oliver White, Scott Phillips, Thomas Moorefield, Mark Lebetkin, Billy Sugarfix, Dave Bjorkback, Zeno Gill, John Harrison, Ivan Howard, Kuki Kooks, Harold Brady, Chad Coward, Alan Cain, Alex Cox, Jordan Hudson, Jeremy Ferrel, and the Pox Family Singers.
Influences
Durham.
Sounds Like
Hum dee-dee, hum dee-da.
"Ominous Bird" video by Billy Sugarfix. Check out Billy's TV show at Sugarfix Mix!
Schooner with a "video/interview" for WRAL's "Hear it from Hutch" featuring "Feel Better," a new song from our Jerry Kee sessions...
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Schooner is from Carrboro, NC. We like water, dogs, and cats. We enjoy experimenting with simple song structures and sounds and aesthetically tend to go for understatement. We play disheveled pop that moves from mellow sad-eyed tunes to erratic rock numbers highlighted by boy-girl harmonies and existential lyrics. We've been around since 2003, and during that time we've put out:
-"You Forget About Your Heart" - 2004 (Pox World Empire)
ITUNES
-“3x4” - 2006 (Pox)
-“Rocky P.” - 2006 (Pox) ITUNES
-"Hold on Too Tight," - 2007 (54º 40' or Fight! Records),
As well as some early homemade CD's and a few of tracks on various compilations that you can ask us nicely for.
Stay in touch to see when we're going to be driving around and playing shows in your town.
“Schooner are hard(er) to describe: their first impression is of kinda-croony pop music, but that quickly gives way to an undercurrent of weirdness that's always threatening to well up & overwhelm the pop with something far freakier.” –Ross Grady, trianglerock.com
Reid Johnson’s voice “can be as wintry and challenging as Mark Kozelek's distant tone and as confiding and intimate as Sam Beam's breathy whisper. (His) songs…follow suit, pushed-to-the-edge statements about taking comfort in the small things, especially if they're all that's left. Pretty great.” –Grayson Currin, Independent Weekly
"The quality of frontman Reid Johnson's songwriting is consistently high. No lulls, no hints of attempting to cover a lack of inspiration, no filler, not a single welcome overstayed. Classic stuff, in other words" -Copper Press
"...rarely has a sibling relationship created something this harmonious....swooning vintage pop, fuzzy Guided By Voices-ish rock and woozy Sinatra/Hazlewood-like country for an overall effect that's equal parts dreamy, deadpan and doomed." -CMJ
"What a fucking marvellous band." -Sian Claire Owen, Americana UK
