West Kingston, Rhode Island
Singer-Songwriter

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"www.jeffbyrddirtyfinch.com"

BIOGRAPHY

Jon Ostrow From Miccontrolblog.com had this to say about Jeff Byrd & Dirty Finch: "These guys are a solid alt-country band from Rhode Island. I want to commend the band on their ability to keep the songs upbeat, something that I typically find to be lacking in alt-country. It really adds to the music helping the harmonies, melodies, and tight instrumentation soar (check out their song Better Without You for an example of the SOLID harmonies)."

SMT Publishing
"Jeff Byrd & Dirty Finch are an alt/country vs acoustic rock group with some great songs, and a unique sound that causes you to listen up."
-Terry Stephens
SMT Publishing - Nashville

LEVEL

semi-pro

GENRES

Alternative Country, Singer/Songwriter, Indie Rock

Contact

Booking: losersuperstar@gmail.com
Administrative: Jeff Byrd

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

drums / acoustic guitar / electric guitar / percussion / vocals

INFLUENCES

Ryan Adams Ellliott Smith Wilco The Replacements (Westerberg) John Lennon Jeff Buckley

I AM INTERESTED IN

in pitching songs to tv
in getting a record deal
in getting a publishing deal

I WRITE:

For a living

I Also Write:
by myself
for myself

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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Cadillac Sky

Cadillac Sky should be a lot more tired. It’s early Saturday afternoon at MerleFest and the band–Bryan Simpson, Matt Menefree, Andrew Moritz, Ross Holmes and newest addition David Mayfield–has already logged two performances on the day....

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Sessions: David Bazan

It was pretty slow. I mean, I played [the songs] on acoustic guitar for a long time, but I didn’t know how to transfer them to the other format. I didn’t want it to be a solo acoustic record. I wanted there to be bells and whistles and full band arrangements even if I didn’t want it necessarily to be electric guitar rock....

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Sessions: Vetiver

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but then no one really digs to find out that there are those other things going on.”

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Behind The Song: “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing”

Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell sang, it has been remarked, like lovers, although they weren’t. Similarly, Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson, the team behind one of Marvin and Tammi’s most enduring hits, “Ain’t Nothing Like the Real Thing,” wrote as if under the influence of amatory forces; even if, in the spring of 1968,