Connie Lynn Petruk - Vocals / Tambourine *
Christmas Davis - Guitar / Vocals *
Katia Floreska - Organ / Vocals *Jesse Krakow - The Bass*
Denny McDermott- Drums
Influences
Flannery O'Connor, Nature, Sam Peckinpah, Nurture, Bobbie Gentry, Jim Ford, Dusty Springfield, Russ Meyer, Kris Krtistofferson, The Staple Singers, Johnny and June, Tony Joe White, Blind Willie Johnson, The Moon, Dolly Parton, The Sun, Sly Stone, Avant Garde Magazine, George Harrison, Ike and Tina, Canadians, The Chuck Wagon Gang, Americans, Mick Taylor, Willie Nelson, Jesus, Stevie Wonder, The Band, Playboy Magazine 1967-1977, Bobby Womack, Shel Silverstein, Boyde Holmes, Hank Williams, horses, camp fires, ghost stories and other true tales that stretch the imagination.
Sounds Like
The Tall Pines! Or, the house band from your favorite imaginary Russ Meyer movie.
Get your copy of the new Tall Pines CD "Campfire Songs" by clicking the iTunes link here:
And the first TALL PINES CD - which NPR called one of the Top Ten best CDs of 2007 - is still available by clicking on the picture below. It's that easy. you can also download the first album from the iTunes general store just by clicking here: Don't forget to leave a review.
About The Tall Pines:
The Tall Pines debut release was recently featured in National Public Radio’s Top Ten Best CDs of 2007. NPR contributor Meredith Ochs provides the following description of The Tall Pines unique style:
“With long straight hair falling over sky high cheekbones and a penchant for floor-length dresses Connie Petruk looks like she stepped out of late ‘60s / early ‘70s Nashville and sings like the lost sister of Bobbie Gentry or Dusty Springfield. Her honeyed alto will melt the frost off your windshield, and the band’s confident backing matches her attitude flawlessly. The Tall Pines are equal parts soul and twang, molasses and moonshine, sass and skill. The Ten songs on their debut CD, all written by Christmas Davis and inspired by his Southern upbringing, evoke the heyday of the country-soul hybrid without ever sounding unoriginal, a difficult feat.”
“But the story of The Tall Pines begins long before we ever recorded any music” says Petruk. “The Tall Pines began pushing their tiny roots into the earth when Gram Parsons and Emmylou Harris decided to sing together, and when The Band came down from Canada, and when Tony Joe White and Bobbie Gentry first started writing down stories and pickin’ their guitars at the same time. That’s when The Tall Pines really started. It’s just taken us a few decades to be born, grow up, get together and start making our own version of the music that we love.“
The Tall Pines is a family collaboration of singer Connie Lynn Petruk, and songwriter Christmas Davis. Connie Lynn was born in Edmonton Alberta, and started singing at the Calgary Stampede Rodeo when she was just a little girl. After a few seasons spent entertaining the cowboys in Calgary, she moved to New York to seek her fortune. Christmas was raised with a colorful southern family whose members often find their way into his songs. Growing up, he spent every Sunday attending a Pentecostal church, at the insistence of his mother who was addicted to two things: Jesus, and the tambourine.
“The Tall Pines” is the band’s first recording. According to Christmas Davis “In it you’ll find a generous helping of pretty young ladies on the make, drunken reverends telling tall tales, satanic choirs, small town drifters, aging dreamers, innocents with broken hearts, and all kinds of crooked characters, squeezed into ten short songs. Like a collection of Flannery O’Connor stories, with a beat. It's our first manifesto, open to interpretation, and ready to lead the sing along. We hope that you enjoy it and come back often to visit The Tall Pines.”
Thank you so much for "bandfriending" us, The Tall Pines! We truly appreciate it.
We
hope that you find something of ours that will wriggle into your ears,
burrow down next to your heart (in a good way), and compel you to ROB
US BLIND (again, in a good way: "Free downloads, ahoy!”…that is, if
Myspace ever gets around to reactivating that feature).
If you like us, please, tell a friend. If you hate us, hell, tell an enemy!
Looking forward to your participation in this year's Wave Gathering Be sure to check the schedule tab on www. WaveGathering. com for Day, Venue & Set-times C'ya there!
Wave Gathering '08 www. wavegathering. com The 3rd Annual Wave Gathering Music Festival will be held June 20th, 21st & 22nd! ~~~DAILY or THREE DAY PASSES AVAILABLE NOW THRU TICKETWEB~~~ For more info click on the link above ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Thank you for your kind words. I'd be honored to be in your network. I see we have a lot of mutual friends. If you have a moment, I would appreciate it if you could check out my son Jesse's tribute page, at www. myspace. com/jessetributepage. He was an aspiring musician when he passed away in 1994. Thank you.
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