500 Miles to Memphis

Located in Cincinnati, Ohio, 500 Miles To Memphis was shaped in 2003 by singer-songwriter and guitarist Ryan Malott. The length from Malott’s home-town towards the Memphis house of Elvis Presley motivated the music group name. The line-up was unpredictable in the first many years of the music group’s career, making use of their 2005 self-titled debut finished by Malott, Jason Gallagher (electric guitar), Wade Owens (bass) and Lee Steele (drums). The record’s interesting and energetic combination of punk and nation music was definitely not first (punk bands have got frequently considered roots music before), nonetheless it was uncommon that Malott’s songwriting steered nearer to nation idioms as opposed to the contemporary malaise favoured by the majority of his emo contemporaries. A bunch of musicians after that handed through the rates before the fairly steady line-up of Malott, veteran regional musician David Rhodes Dark brown (lap metal/keyboards), Jeff Snyder (bass), Stephen Kuffner (electric guitar/vocals), Paul Patterson (fiddle), and Kevin Hogle (drums) finished the music group’s first accessible release, Sunlight In A GO Glass.