Paul’s Grandfather

Feb 22, 2009

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This impressive female group is in the process of recording a full length album of ebullient lyrics, vocal harmonies and Devendra Banhart-esqe sounds when we checked back in with Rebecca.

So there’s three of you, all girls – do you think you have a stronger presence by not including males?
Not necessarily a stronger presence, but I think if we added guys it would take away from our sound. We like it like this.

What’s the common thread that brought you all together?
We all met here in Fredonia at school, just by chance. We started playing together, the early work was kind of weird because we weren’t friends before we started playing together. We’ve become really close since.

How long have you all been singing together now?
Just since October.

You have a pretty developed sound – gospel and folk with a contemporary twist. What’s your thoughts behind that?
I think it just worked out with our three different styles that we bring together – that’s how it fell.

Do you all write?
Yeah, we all write together. Basically, one of us will write a song and bring it to the others and we’ll add other parts. So I’d say we all write an equal amount.

Who takes on what role?
We all sing, me and Karrah play guitar, Katie plays piano and we all take turns doing percussion

Why did you choose such a masculine name for the band?
It’s a Beatles reference from a Hard Day’s Night and the one thing the three of us did have in common was a love for the Beatles. I’m not sure how that specifically came up. I think we were all sitting around singing, drinking and joking around when we picked that name. I do know Katie thought of it.

Have you recorded your first CD yet?
We’re working on it right now here in Fredonia at the studio with my friend John from the band Longitude. I think we’re recording nine songs with John, but then there’s another guy in Fredonia that wants to record more for us, so we’re probably going to be coming out with a lot. We have about twenty songs together now that we’re going to be recording. We should be done recording it in the next couple of months, then it will be sent away, so we have a few months before it comes out.

Now you’re very loyal to your friends in Fredonia, but with your talent, do you see going to a bigger city and working with a larger label? Or do you consider yourself lucky to be involved in the Buffalo scene?
Yeah definitely, we don’t really know what we’ll do right now, but once Katie and I are done with school, we’ll look into moving somewhere else. I really like Buffalo, but, moving somewhere bigger…

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