Colorado fast-pickers Grant Farm announce “Huckle and Grant Farm - Farmageddon Tour 2012,” which is set to rock the Sweetwater Music Hall in Mill Valley on December 2nd. Every show will be a food drive via Huckle’s Music For Food program, in which Huckle will give free CD of his new record Wooden Melodies to fans in exchange for non-perishable food items. Food items will be donated to local food banks, supporting the local communities and people who need it! Check it out at www.HuckleMusic.com
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Grant Farm – Roots, Rock, Crisco
Grant Farm is a band on a mission. Tyler, Chris, Adrian and Sean are experienced players of renown in their own right, but as a unit they form a greater whole, and are working hard to grow into the best band that they can be. Former members of Leftover Salmon, The Drew Emmitt Band, Emmitt-Nershi Band, Snake Oil Medicine Show, Bill Nershi's Blue Planet and Hot Soup, these fine young players have been featured on stage with the likes of The String Cheese Incident, Yonder MountainString Band, The Infamous Stringdusters, The Motet, Head For The Hills, Sam Bush, JerryDouglas, Tim O'Brien, Dumpstaphunk, Tony Rice, Larry Keel, Keller Williams, Jon Oates, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, Disco Biscuits, Abigail Washburn and Peter Rowan.
The seeds of Grant Farm were planted in 2009 by Tyler Grant and Andy Thorn. Tyler was fresh off the boat from Nashville, TN and Andy from Chapel Hill, NC. The duo found themselves in Boulder, CO as members of The Emmitt-Nershi Band, and were eager to showcase some of their original music. When Tyler gave his notice to ENB at the end of 2010 he was driven to make a bigger statement with his music so he dusted off his Telecaster, started a conversation with the experienced and equally driven drummer Chris Misner, plugged in, turned up, and watched the sprouts of the Grant Farm concept grow.
With the help of Thorn and stellar bassist Keith Moseley of The String Cheese Incident, the electric Grant Farm started rehearsing in early 2011. Their concerts in Denver, Boulder and the mountains beyond caused a ripple in the local music scene that led to some fine festival plays the following Summer, including Yarmonygrass, Four Corners Folk Festival, Fort Collins Bark n' Bluegrass, Riverfront, and Harvestival. With a country-disco (Cris-Co), roots-rock, booty-shakin' jam-tastic concept fully formed, Adrian Engfer and Sean Foley were brought on board to bring the band into 2012. Now, after a couple solid seasons of touring Coast-to-Coast behind their eponymous debut CD, Grant Farm, released on Grant Central Records in March 2012, audiences everywhere are a-buzz with the Roots, Rock and Cris-Co statement that Grant Farm brings to every performance.
Huckle - Roots, Rock, Folk
This Northern California-based singer-songwriter-guitarist is a natural child of the world. One picks up on some of the blessed West Coast vibe of Jack Johnson and the oceanic oomph of John Butler in his readily appealing music, but there’s also a winning attack to his sound, a hunger felt in the gut of the listener. Huckle rocks in that beautiful wide-armed way the genre once did back in the day, embracing country, blues, folk and anything else he fancies, something evident throughout his organically flowing, lovingly charged debut album ‘Wooden Melodies’.
Live, Huckle tours as a trio, and his band includes bassist Murph and drummer Ezra Lipp. Hot off the heels of a relentless touring schedule, Huckle has been spreading his music throughout California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada and Colorado. Huckle has shared the stage with and supported many great bands and musicians including Donovan Frankenreiter, The Mother Hips, Steve Kimock, ALO, the Lee Boys, Melvin Seals and JGB, and Greensky Bluegrass to name a few.
Despite the impression of ragin’ electricity in many spots on the new album "Wooden Melodies", what one hears is an 10 string acoustic and a homemade Weissenborn lap steel guitar, along with banjo and other assorted instruments Huckle brings to bear alongside his rhythm team of bassist Murph (Izabella) and ALO drummer Dave Brogan. The album also features harmonies from Tim Bluhm (The Mother Hips) and guest turns from college friends Lebo (ALO) and Zach Gill (Jack Johnson, ALO) as well as harmonies from Nicki Bluhm on one cut. All tunes were tracked live as a trio on Jerry Garcia’s old A-80 Studor 2” tape machine.
Connection to the great outdoors and Community is central to Huckle’s philosophy, and not just working closely with the rich array of Bay Area talent he calls friends. He’s partnered with outdoor retail manufacturer Marmot to begun a Music For Food program, where people who bring two items of non-perishable food to a Huckle show and receive some free Huckle music. It’s an effort that strives to help raise much needed food and awareness about those less fortunate in every local community Huckle visits – a small act of kindness that incrementally moves things towards the positive. It’s a characteristically Huckle thing to.
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