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The Gulf of Michigan

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devil's darker day blues
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Released: Jun 8, 2009
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General Info

  • Genre: Americana / Country / Rock

    Location Austin, Texas, Un

    Profile Views: 20479

    Last Login: 2/12/2012

    Member Since 7/22/2007

    Website reverbnation.com/thegulfofmichigan

    Record Label unsigned

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    2007 Brooklyn, New York, USA. The simplest thing, sometimes. The most obvious thing & right there under your nose. Faith & good people. Music from the American West. Loud & pure; dramatic & violent & hopeful & yours. JD Elliott sings & plays guitar & banjo & keys & some other nonsense, too. Florian Minier plays bass & keys & sings & sometimes drums. JS Spencer drums & sings The band is from Brooklyn, New York, USA. The Gulf of Michigan released advance copies of their debut "Honest Girl EP" at The Trash Bar in Brooklyn, NY on Oct 27, 2007. It was their first performance. In the fall of 2009, the band released the new "Country Mile EP", recorded with Andrew Mathews at his Exit 4 Plan Studio in Brooklyn. Over the summer of 2010 JD and Florian recorded the "Tecumseh" album in their new Savannah, GA home, again mixed at Exit 4 Plan, before packing the car again and going out West to reunite with JS Spencer on drums. Musically, The Gulf of Michigan plumbs the religious longing & fervor of Skip James; the raw, ugly sexuality of Leadbelly; the drunken romanticism of Hank Williams. Equally important & obvious, too, The Gulf of Michigan attacks these roots, these themes, with an energy & tonality demanded by childhoods entrenched in the selflessness of punk rock & the fury of heavy metal. The Gulf of Michigan trades in narrative: love songs as murder ballads, murder ballads as love songs. Religious allegories can be ghost stories. Every song is true just like every dream is true. In the American West the roads are straight & endless. One has time to think. And, and but, eventually one runs into an ocean. 2011 Austin, TX, USA.

  • Members

    JD Elliott--vocals, guitar, banjo, keys, ukulele, kazoo, harmonica || Florian Minier--bass, keys, drums, vocals || JS Spencer--drums, vocals || || Extended family and past players: G. Mathieson "Truckee" Sterling III--organ, keys || Thomas Jones--guitar, vocals || Andrew Mathews--production, drums || Vincent Baratta--fiddle, guitar, vocals || Grady Walker--drums, lap steel, vocals || Street--drums

  • Influences

    Tom Waits, Hank Williams, Drive-By Truckers, X, Old 97's, 16 Horsepower, Django Reinhardt, Queens of the Stone Age, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Steve Earle, Murder City Devils, Wesley Jeremiah, Kyuss, The Misfits, Leonard Cohen, Jason Isbell, Fleet Foxes, Black Sabbath, Clutch, My Morning Jacket, Constantines, The Decemberists, Sam Cooke, Midlake, Mark Lanegan Band, Grizzly Bear, Marvin Gaye, Okkervil River, The Reigning Sound, The Two Man Gentleman Band, Wilco, M. Ward

  • Sounds Like

    A long, fast drive through a desert into the sea. With all of your best friends.........

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