BACKYARD TIRE FIRE
BACKYARD TIRE FIRE
http://www.myspace.com/backyardtirefiremusic
"Instead of being just another collection of guitar driven, middle of the road rock music full of stolen riffs from some of the worst excesses of the 1970's, these guys know how to write and arrange songs and understand what melody means."
- Richard Marcus - BlogCritics.org
"The bluesy piano romps are just as good as the rock anthems -- lovelorn with yearning nostalgia but coupled with straight-up Southern-fried noise -- Highly recommended."
- Can You See The Sunset
"Take everything you love about Patterson Hood’s emotional grit, The Old 97s classic barnburner footstompers, and the spirit Whiskeytown had when Ryan still had something to prove, and you’ve already got a good sense of what the band is about: It’s Midwestern Americana at it’s slice-of-hard-life best."
- Berkeley Place
"Backyard Tire Fire's exposed new sounds and ideas and shaped a record that is completely different from anything we've heard from them before...they've grown more than should be possible a few short months since they were offering up a collection of acoustic ditties."
- Hero Hill
"Note to the World, if your tired of the same refurbished, drivel that continually makes the air waves, this is your door way to walk through the mundane and into the vividness of raw but polished Americana. There are ordinary story tellers who write lyrics and then their are master narrators, who make you believe what they are saying like you were there with them when they wrote the song."
- Ozone and Shadow Blog
JOHN SWARDSON & THE GET GONE
My name is John Swardson, I'm a singer-songwriter. I play the guitar and write about alot of things, those things usually end up being on the edges of where we live. My band is called Get Gone. I have one record out and one on the brink. Ablaze, my debut, was released in April of 2006 and the new record Silver Dust should be wrapped in plastic by early April '08. I write the songs , sing'em and play the guitar.
RYAN PAUL & THE ARDENT
Folks will come and go and will leave their mark on us to be passed on to others, but those etchings will come out in the wash. We are not your messengers, but we’re here for you. We’re simple, but we’re smart. Our individual parts are not fetching to the eye, but when combined you will notice the pulchritude. We’re commonplace, but exotic. We’re Ryan Paul & THE ARDENT.