Bobbie Gentry, The Cure, REM, The Clash, Cat Stevens, T Rex, Phoebe Snow, The Beatles, The Blake Babies, Johnny Cash and June Carter, J.S. Bach, Cowboy Junkies, Nina Simone, , Television, The Pixies, Patsy Cline, Nick Drake, Leonard Cohen, Satie, Mazzy Star.
In 2005, a roadside fortune teller in Mississippi told Amy Clay to move to Boston. So she packed up her 2000 pound piano and her eight pound chihuahua and drove East just as the winds of Katrina swept into her hometown of Jackson. Not really knowing what else to do once she arrived, Amy Clay spent her first six months dancing around Boston pretending to be in an iPod commercial.
Around this same time, Josh Cole moved back to town after some highlonesome traveling out West. He had his guitar and his philosophy degree and he knew how to use them both. Since Amy Clay also had both of those things, they decided to get engaged. In fact in the third conversation they ever had, Amy Clay told Josh Cole, "I've got a feeling we're going to be best friends; why don't we just go ahead and get married." Very philosophical, yet effective nonetheless.
So they joined forces in life and in love and finally in music in 2008 as the Fool Saints, an indie rock amalgamation reminiscent of dreams where you fly or show up at school naked. Ethereal and raw, the Fool Saints are for real. Amy Clay's Mississippi Delta storytelling roots mingle with Josh Cole's frenetic contemplations to form a cross-pollination that would make all Southern Oracles proud.
Congratulations on a rocking good first performance at TT's! You all sounded awesome. Only wish your set could have gone on longer. Was great to see you. Much love, -Adam & Jenn.
It has been forever, you guys disappeared, i just stumbled on your page, i'm not gonna be around this weekend so i won't be able to, but if you get more shows i def will...hope you guys are doin well..see ya soon hopefully : )
i could never "dis"miss you as anything..but i can miss you as a roommate...make sense of that i dare you! I LOVE IT AMY CLAY and you, see ya at the show ;)
I am so sad I missed you, too. We went to a recording studio to record our first album that weekend. It was really fun. Bryan Ledford is producing it for us. I miss you Amy Clay. Please lemme know next time you head south. Sen Josh some love for us, too. Love you!!!!
