Frank Woodman- lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter
Hillary Woodman- vocals
Derek Woodman- vocals and lead guitar
Kevin Maliszewski-drums
Adam Fuller-bass guitar
Summer, The ocean, Mazzy Star, Al Gore, Evel Knievel, Dinosaurs, Daniel Johnston, doggies and kitties, Billy Jack, Neil Young, Detroit, The Beatles and The Stones, Late nights, Batman, and Old and New England.
We also like these bands-
The White Stripes
Tears For Fears
Brendan Benson
Wolfmother
The Muldoons
Old Prince
Blanche
Hayden
The Hard Lessons
Verbena
Human Eye
Ben Kweller
The Dirtbombs
Nirvana
SSM
Cat Stevens
The Gories
Of Montreal
Detroit Cobras
Devendra Banhart
The Stooges
B.R.M.C.
Paybacks
Eagles of Death Metal
Elliott Smith
The Go
Neil Young
Jawbone
low
the mood elevator
Tom Waits
Mark Lanegan
Tin Knocker
the Cramps
the Decks
Elvis Costello
Duende!
Lisa Germano
The Oscillating fan club
the kinks
Carjack
the Black Keys
the Displays
Wilco
The Bird Dogs
Sloan
The Sights
The Breeders
The Muggs
The Who
Prussia
The Sonics
Magic Shop
Brian Jonestown Massacre
The Readies
Mudhoney
Scarlet Oaks
Spoon
Lightning Love
and many more
Like the Osmonds, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, the Jackson 5, Kings of Leon, The Shaggs, The Muldoons, The Carter Family and The Brady Bunch, Woodman believe that making music can be a family affair. Frank Woodman, songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitar, 19 year old son Derek Woodman on tremolo soaked lead guitar and 17 year old daughter Hillary Woodman with haunting vocals, are Woodman. Registered Nurse and aspiring songwriter, unable to get a band together due to afternoon shift restrictions, recruits his young ones to flesh out his plaintive songs. The experiment worked, with the Woodman voices melding together for some sweet Americana. Songs about childhood joys, lost innocence and stolen car rides, show their love for the American folk song.
Joining the Woodman 3 are drummer Kevin Maliszewski and bassist Adam Fuller. This swinging rhythm section add an adventurous rock edge that is ready for the stage. With a dozen shows around their beloved Detroit already played, they are currently booking shows around the youngsters school schedule and hoping to get into the studio in the spring time of 2008 to work on their first long player.
Found A Way:
Woodman
jeff milo
Frank Woodman’s pink bicycle, bendy-straws around its spokes, has a $5 scuffed guitar in its flower basket and a mini-amp clamped on his belt-loop.
We’re riding around looking for some lunch — I ask him to play “Smoke on the Water” and he, beaming a smile through his orange pirate beard, happily obliges.
A registered nurse, kind soul and father, he leads the eclectic folk-rock group called Woodman with his son Derek on lead guitar and daughter Hillary on vocals, (both exceptionally capable for 18 and 16-years-old respectively). Alongside them is the burgeoning and able rhythm section of Adam Fuller (bass) and Sam Sequin (drums).
A long-time Detroit rock fan fixture, he and his wife of 20 years, Shelly, have been going to local shows, (ya know ... Rocket 455, The White Stripes, etc.) for more than 10 years. “I need to get a band,” he’d always say to Shelly while in the crowd, having taught himself guitar through rigorous studying of Cobain’s fingers on the TV screen as MTV looped Nirvana Unplugged ceaselessly after his death.
Since no local musicians were compatible with his afternoon work schedule … well … he needed a band … “So he made one,” Shelly quips.
With only two shows spread between ‘05 and ‘06, these elegiac troubadours of cathartic, freewheeling Americana anthems, have been playing their folkin’ heads off in ‘07 with a slew of shows and a recently recorded EP. Time is split between Hillary’s high school, Derek’s U of M tenure, Adam’s aspiring filmmaking and Sam’s beauty school attendance, but they make the most of it — sometimes rehearsing at 3 o’clock in the morning.
Flavors of grunge, blues, British Invasion, Hendrix, Young and Brendan Benson permeate Woodman's sound, which is atmospheric but earthy, heartbreaking but still believing in love. | RDW
Hey! Listen in to Arboles on KSUN this Sunday at 4pm! I'll be playing some new songs off the upcoming EP. Just go to ksunradio.com and click at the top of the page!
hay thanks for checking us out, i got pooped from the show and took (what i thought would be) a short nap after the set and then everybody partied at my house and nobody woke me up (i live behind the alley stage, i dono how i slept with it so loud....) ... so i missed p much everybody else's set ... i hope to catch u soon i like it maybe at the lager house? or are you playing a show for sinclair somewhere?
Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.
ohh i loved hearing you guys at the factory! i didn't know you were the brady bunch of music! :) you're awesooome. hopefully you play again with catscratch...i'll be there watching and dancing!!
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