Night Driving in Small Towns are land dwellers. Having moved from small south Georgia towns to the city of Atlanta in 2008, the band has seen its share of topography. So has their music. Having navigated the spaces between artsy folk pop and brazen indie rock, their sound is sometimes gutsy, sometimes reserved, but always premeditated.
The group’s musical content originates from the songwriting duo of Andrea Rogers and Colby Wright. The two have written together for almost a decade, getting their craft down to a weird science in the process. Wright provides a lush musical backdrop for Rogers’s intimate lyrics, an amalgamation that has been described as a “potent cocktail” of sound (Michael Shaunessy, Flagpole). This intoxicating vibe led to Night Driving’s inclusion in a 2008 list of the “Top 25 Bands on Myspace” as determined by Rolling Stone, as well as their subsequent inclusion on the roster of Atlanta’s Lower 40 Records.
The band’s debut album on the Lower 40 label will be released April 20, 2010. Night Driving in Small Towns are currently playing regionally in support of the record.
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Schooner is from Carrboro, NC. We run our mouth from time to time. We enjoy experimenting with simple song structures and sounds and aesthetically tend to go for understatement. We play disheveled pop that moves from mellow sad-eyed tunes to erratic rock numbers highlighted by boy-girl harmonies and existential lyrics.
Schooner started from a 4-track project by Reid Johnson in 2003, and soon turned into a full band. The current lineup includes Reid Johnson, Billy Alphin (The Ashley Stove, The Rosebuds), Maria Albani (Organos, Pleasant, Un Deux Trois), and Chris Badger (Hotel Lights). We've released 2 full-lengths: 2004's "You Forget About Your Heart" (Pox World Empire), and 2007's "Hold on Too Tight" (54,' 40° or Fight!) as well as a couple of limited edition EP's we've sold out of. Our latest EP release "Duck Kee Sessions" recorded at Jerry Kee's "Duck Kee Studios" (Superchunk, Kingsbury Manx, Polvo) has been released exclusively on Cytunes.org, a music downloading site that donates all proceeds to brain cancer research. (http://cytunes.org/album/62)
"What a fucking marvellous band." (Sian Claire Owen, Americana UK)
"The quality of frontman Reid Johnson's songwriting is consistently high. No lulls, no hints of attempting to cover a lack of inspiration, no filler, not a single welcome overstayed. Classic stuff, in other words" (Eric J. Ianelli, Copper Press)
"(Schooner) simultaneously marry “swooning vintage pop, fuzzy Guided By Voices-ish rock and woozy Sinatra/Hazlewood-like country...rarely has a sibling relationship created something this harmonious." (Rebecca Raber, CMJ)
“asking Schooner to travel in one direction would diminish the intimate joys.” (Harp)
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All of Wages available recordings were created at Echo Mountain with producer Hank Sullivant, Godfather of Transmutilation.
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