The Songbirds

Knoxville, Tennessee
25 Years Old
Band

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BIOGRAPHY

Very short and sweet. We started singing Patty Griffin covers in October 2007 and people liked it, so we decided we should start writing our own songs in January of 2008. After an EP and a crash course in being a band (in the form of lots of shows :)) we're still around and coming out with our first full length in the next month! We love, and are so thankful for, what we do!

LEVEL

aspiring

GENRES

Folk, Pop, Singer/Songwriter

PUBLISHING COMPANY

BMI, I own my own publishing

Contact

Booking: thesongbirdsmusic@gmail.com

P.R.O.

BMI

INSTRUMENTS

cello / acoustic guitar / piano

INFLUENCES

Patty Griffin Ryan Adams local nashville and knoxville musicians

DAY JOB

Student

I WRITE:

It's my second job

I Also Write:
by myself
with others
for myself
for others

I Prefer To Write:
lyrics
melody
music

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AWARDS & ACCOLADES

~Songwriters of the week on American Songspace. The only other time we have been as excited about anything was the time Lisa won front row Ryan Adams tickets over the radio. ~A link to a really nice article by Steve Wildsmith of The Daily Times http://www.thedailytimes.com/article/20100304/ENT/303049960

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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,

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hey!

oh. you know. i am trying to get in touch with him. haha. i'm going to try and give him a call again tomorrow.

it's going to be awesome to hang! see you soon!

03/02/2009 01:00 AM

Your voices are like angels!

02/12/2009 04:01 PM

Can't sop listening to your music.! These are awsome songs and the sound is so sweet. Write on!
Peace&Luv&Rock&Roll&Huggin Everywhere!

10/31/2008 01:08 PM