Tony - Guitar Vocals
Dan - Guitar, Vocals
Phil - Keyboard, Vocals
Jonathan - Bass, Vocals
Jered - Violin, Vocals
Tyler - Drums, Vocals
Influences
Johnny Cash, Social Distortion, Bad Weather California, Slim Cessna's Auto Club, The Railbenders, Munly & The Lee Lewis Harlots, The Films, Machine Gun Blues.
Sounds Like
A lone rattler keeps time for an outcast coyote, howling at a train rolling through the Arizona desert.
Born under mysterious circumstances to unknown parents, the Winchester brothers – Colt, Trigger, Cal, Clip, Hammer, and Buckshot – were raised in the Sonoran Desert of Arizona by a silent and nameless old man whose only possessions were a tamed pack of coyotes, a deadly collection of rattlesnakes, and upwards of 150 pistols, shotguns, and rifles – most of which were trophies of battles won with cowboys and Indians alike. The boys learned to shoot before they could stand and quickly became excellent marksmen. By the age of five, for instance, Colt could shoot a woodpecker off the side of a cactus from 200 yards blindfolded, using only the faint pecking sound to guide his aim. Five years later, on a clear and still day, the three boys could stand 300 yards apart from each other, simultaneously fire a shot into the air, and have the six bullets collide in the sky, fuse into a single bullet, and fall gently into the outstretched and unmoved palm of their master. One year later they could do the same thing, blindfolded and in the middle of a thunderstorm.
Their wise master being mute, they spoke only the subtle tongues of their brothers the coyotes and the rattlesnakes and learned also to hear and play the endless music of their howlings and hissings. When they had become young men, they bid their wise master farewell and set off, armed with two guns each, a few rattlesnakes and one loyal coyote, to claim their own stake in the world. Settling finally in Denver, they quickly assimilated the American way of speaking and playing music, and although they have become noted masters of Western music, they never cease to incorporate the primal sounds of their desert brothers. By day they can be heard as The Riflemen, a six-piece rock n' roll outfit of unquestionable talent and relentless creativity. But by night, when the air is still and the moon is full, their shots ring out in harmonious unison reaching the ends of the earth through the stirrings of the desert's soul whence they came.
You best be comin to my birthday show at Lifespot (in centennial) on the 15th of May, or me and my band will show up at your favorite swimming pool and pea in the water without telling you about it!!! :)
Go ahead and test us, I'll be holding it til the show :)!!!
Good question!!! Ha! Glad we are now though... now we can contact each other any hour of the day. Great job last weekend guys. We had a lot of fun! Hopefully we can play again soon!!
I have been busy on tour with Conor Oberst and The Mystic Valley Band and haven't had a chance to tell you about my new record! It's called "Bad Little Kitty" and it came out back in July. There are a few tracks to sample on my MySpace but you can also check it out on iTunes or on my own website, www. TaylorHollingsworth. com. Thank you for continuing to be a friend and I hope you like the new collection of songs.
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