Convoy!

The seeds from the country-rock outfit referred to as Convoy! had been sown when vocalist/songwriter and guitarist Noah Slater shifted from his indigenous Toronto to Northfield, MN, to wait Carleton College or university. There he fulfilled a fellow pupil and Crimson Wing, MN-native called Scott Wells, whom he befriended and started playing music with. The set, plus drummer John McCarthy and multi-instrumentalist Kathryn Hobgood, started playing the campus place, the Cave, as the rag-tag root base rock and roll outfit Workhorse. It had been at these displays where they fulfilled Nate Johnson, the Cave’s reservation agent and co-owner from the fledgling Fighting with each other Electric Information label, who ultimately record the band’s singular LP, the adroitly entitled Record. When the short-lived Workhorse party finished, Slater and Wells considered the employees of Wells’ various other band, Nationale, hoping of reviving the motivated country-punk plan of their prior group. Enter Alex Achen, Nationale’s boisterous guitarist and business lead singer; Achen finished up a perfect suit for the drum package, and Convoy! was created. In 1999, the recently shaped combo released a self-titled debut as the first genuine Fighting with each other Electric discharge. The record was an excellent — if sloppy — debut, and brought the music group to the interest of local magazines and Turf Membership regulars. In 2001, Convoy! released their sophomore record for Fighting with each other Electric powered, Fleur de Lis, the name of which sources Slater’s Québécois upbringing, aswell as the need for the original French symbol towards the early-’90s underground rock and roll picture in Louisville, KY. The record was a more accomplished exemplory case of Convoy!’s unique, semi-traditionalist country-rock, and gained the group even more critical praise.