Bryan Cohen - Vocals, Guitar;
Andrew Nelson - Keyboards, Vocals;
Paul Christofferson - Bass;
Matt Carr - Drums, Percussion
Dave Patterson - Guitar, Vocals
Influences
Wilco, Jayhawks, Lucinda Williams, Matthew Sweet, Crowded House, Josh Rouse, Kathleen Edwards, Steve Earle, Squeeze, Kings of Convenience, Neil Finn, Tim Finn
Sweetlou plays "doubter"
For SweetLou, rock n’ roll is obsession. Guitars, drums, amps, best gigs ever, shit gigs, vans, heroes, has-beens, almosts, drunks, fuck ups, dreamers, failures, haters, doubters, lovers, players, the grunge, the pop, a lust for twang, Wilco, Keith Richards, the Beatles, the Beach Boys, Steve Earle, The Replacements, Tom Petty (pre-‘Free Falling’), the Pedal Steel, Dicks Drive-In… These are all part of the rock n’ roll universe that The Year of the Rock celebrates.
The Year of the Rock is a return to full-tilt roots rock, and features up-tempo rock rave ups such as Whiskey World, Test Patterns, St. Paul and Sleeping Around; slow twang cookers like Gravity’s Pull; and a few off-beat pop tunes like Ugly Business and AA Snowflakes. Each of these tunes in some way uses rock n’ roll in its story arc: sometimes a mention or sometimes an entire story line. The Year of the Rock is almost a concept album about rock n’ roll, but not nearly as awesome as Bat out of Hell.
The last year and a half living in Seattle I waited for a Sweetlou show and maybe i missed some, but now I am gone. I would have enjoyed seeing you live! Come to Cali this summer!
