Gabe Daigle - vocals, guitar
Lee Barbier - vocals, guitar, mandolin
John Kaufman - drums
Casey McAllister - keyboards, lap steel
John Bossier - bass
Influences
Indie rock, alt-country, space rock, shoegazer, classic country, cosmic american music, soul, 60's pop, pop that sounds like it's from 60's, Rock and Roll, ELO, punk, psychedelia, "life in a southern college/industrial/suburban/cow town/state capital," heartbreak, alchohol, vices, thinking/drinking too much...
Sounds Like
"They approach Americana from noisy indie-rock, the addition of the fiddle and lap steel ensuring they?re not so welcome there anymore and the noisy guitars will inflame the country purists - but for us Americana fans - well, this is an excellent example of why the genre exists and an excellent example of how it can embrace mongrel music." - Americana-uk.com
"...a more experimental, indie rock version of Americana" - Ink 19.com
"We've heard these Louisiana co-eds called 'boot gazers' because they take
traditional country elements and throw them into a sea of fuzzed out guitars.
Plus, we thought the term 'boot gazer' was sort of funny. But the truth is
that this is simply a more experimental honky tonk band that fans of The Old 97s
Son Volt or My Morning Jacket will like a lot and fans of more experimental indie
rock will also cheer about. In some ways, their sound is deacdes old. In other ways, you've never heard this before. Highly recommended." - Insound.com
"...a sound that fuses Deep South iconoclasm and middle-of-the-road accessibility." - splendid e-zine
After playing around the country in rock and experimental bands such as Becky Sharp (MCA/Way Cool Music), Girl Scout Heroin and Liquidrone, the members of The Myrtles found themselves home in Baton Rouge, LA with a renewed appreciation for the roots music that is ever present in the region. Being members of the post-punk generation, however, they can't help but deliver the songs with tons of energy, firepower and dynamics honed in their earlier projects as well as bits of noise and electronic effects. The bands strong local following ranges from teen aged punk and emo fans to older roots music lovers and they find a similar diverse response on the road. The Myrtles have to date shared stages with a wide range of acts including Spoon, The Rev. Horton Heat, Cub Country, Pat Green, Cory Morrow, Rainer Maria, Rilo Kiley, The Radar Bros., The Bottle Rockets, The Mendoza Line, Okkervil River, The Mountain Goats, We Ragazzi, The Trouble With Sweeney and others. Debut record "Nowhere To Be Found" garnered positive reviews and college radio airplay (especially on the east coast, holding the . 1 spot at WYBC - Yale University - for a couple of weeks) as well as specialty show broadcast and internet airplay and european radio airplay. "All Your Precious Things," a track from the record, was included on two episodes of SPIN magazine's syndicated college radio show. With the departure of violinist Talice Lee (off to graduate school) the band has brought piano, lap steel and guitar to the fore in its newer material, some of which explores territory beyond the roots rock sound of the first disc. Compared often to roots/indie minglers Whiskeytown and My Morning Jacket, The Myrtles count as influences everyone from The Replacements and Gram Parsons to Sonic Youth.
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