Shiloh Lindsey : Guitar, vocals
Mike Flunkert : Pedal steel & lap steel
Jordie Dammet : Bass
Frank Nichols/Tayor Little: Drums
Influences
Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Willie Nelson, Tom Petty, Rickie Lee Jones, Patty Smith, Patsy Cline, Neil Young, Ian Tyson, KD Lang, Joni Mitchel, Wanda Jackson, Kris Kristofferson, Don Williams, Janis Joplin, Tracy Chapman, Seanade O'Connor, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvy, Roy Orbison, Emmylou Harris, Dixie Chicks, Waylon Jennings, Social Distortion, John Prine, Woody Guthrie, Elliot Smith, Annie Lennox, Corb Lund, The Band, The Beatles, my cats - Bear and Xander, Johnny Horton, Tift Merrit, my family, friends, old cowboys/girls who tell great stories, Nirvana, Violent Femmes, Bill Hicks, Sarah Silverman, Texas Chainsaw Massacre 1 & especially 2, Evil Dead, Ace Ventura, Kahlil Gibran, Gin and Tonic, Beer ... lots of it.
Hailed as “The whiskey sipping darling of the Vancouver country scene” Shiloh’s music is for somewhere between that after-hours moment in the dimly lit bar when Johnny Cash comes on the jukebox for the last time, and that instant when the sun first starts to turn the sky from darkness to dawn.
Named after a character in an old western movie, Shiloh remembers sitting beside her dad in the pick-up, a road-pop between his knees and a cigarette dangling from his mouth, as he drove the family from their Alberta ranch to their new homestead in
British Columbia.
Shiloh jumped out of the truck and onto a horse - riding through the glorious backcountry for what seemed like about five minutes, gulping in all fresh mountain air she could hold. Due to bar room antics and whiskey driven madness, the new ranch was soon history and Shiloh and her mother moved to a trailer park in town. At 14 she took a job as a waitress in a truck stop diner to pay to keep her horse at a local ranch. It didn't work for long, so she soon developed another vice - songwriting. She stole her brother's guitar and hit the road, moving from town to town looking for the next great drama.
Vancouver stopped her in her tracks, stuck in a dead-end job with dreams as wide as a Western sky. Before long, producer John Ellis (Be Good Tanyas, Leeroy Stagger, Jeremy Fisher) spotted her at an open mike session and offered to produce her debut CD "For my Smoke", a collection of songs combining images of the beauty, darkness and determination that have brought her this far. Shiloh's gone as far west as she can without hitting deep water, but she's not done yet. Not by a country mile.
“Think early Sheryl Crow posessed by the spirits of Patsy Cline & Johnny Cash.” - SiN, Antidote Records
"Shiloh Lindsey sounds like a Great White North Lucinda Williams, her vocal as clear and as constant as a mountain stream."
- The Vancouver Sun
"Shiloh Lindsey is a diamond in the rough, with the potential to stand beside some of the heaviest artists in the folk-roots genre. Her vocal and writing abilities really caught my ear, because they come out sounding effortless and real. I'm looking forward to seeing her career take off as her record "For my Smoke" was one of the most satisfying projects I did in 2004."
- John MacArthur Ellis, Producer
"Shiloh Lindsey was amazing - what a singer! Whoo. Sure made me feel like Lou Reed's
tone deaf bastard pizza boy" - Doug Smith, The Cadaver Dogs/Nerve Magazine
"The first time I saw Shiloh play at an open mike
I knew she had something. There's vulnerability
as well as strength in her approach, a dark but
beautiful vibe to her songs and performance that
is both attractive and a little scary. She's got
authenticity, honesty and poetry in every note.
Shiloh is the real deal." - Leslie Alexander, Recording artist
Who is he , he should add me :) but yeah any guy interested in you is automatically awesome on acount of his taste in women and any guy who has you in his life is automatically going to win my envy... so yeah we'd prob be best friends.. I so want to come hang and open for ya.. played a little practice gig last night got an exactly 30 minute set worked up with only two covers.. damn that's a big comment.. hell you know me :)
Hey freak nasty.. miss yo fine ass haha.. :) no seriously.. the honky punks are slowly becoming a live band.. got a drummer now who rocks.. lookin' for a bass player!
New BILLY DON BURNS album 'The Berlin Tapes' out now!
Outlaw-Country at its finest, a must for fans of Waylon, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, David Allan Coe, etc.
Available from CD Baby:
www.cdbaby.com/cd/billydonburns
or directly from Rockin' H Records:
www.rockin-h.de
Decent...glad we found that box and looked it over...thanx again for playing, it had its own magic that night...we're in Bragg Creek Alberta, been a fun ride already...keep in touch, maybe we can jam a little in August if you have a band rehearsal...life is good, the road is free...love and rage..joey
Hey Chica!!!!! long time no chat how you been doing? rockin it out there in the big world I hope. keep it up girl you are awesome! gonna have to let me know if you are ever up in neck of the woods here and maybe i can make it to see ya. would love to
Well okay.. so yeah I have cooler hair than Dylan and I doubt any chic could play me in the movie of my life.. but yeah still you are way better than me.
