Drivin’ n’ Cryin’

Produced in Atlanta in 1986, the hard-rocking, Southern root base music-steeped Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ had been never embraced on the nationwide level, but possess reigned supreme in your community throughout their tenure. Originally composed of vocalist/songwriter Kevn Kinney on acoustic guitar and vocals, Tim Nielsen on bass, and Paul Lenz on drums, the band’s debut was the classic hard rock and roll/bluegrass fusion Scarred But Smarter (1986) on 688 Information, the label that grew from the punk-era Atlanta golf club from the same name. The music group adopted with Whisper Tames the Lion in 1988 for Isle, and changed Lenz with Jeff Sullivan on drums. There have been high expectations for Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ at that time because of the achievement of R.E.M.; everything Southern had been tipped to be another big thing. However the band’s distinctively Southern spin on rock and roll was dropped on all of those other globe. Persevering with Secret Road, with the help of R.E.M. acoustic guitar roadie Buren Fowler on lead acoustic guitar, the music group didn’t alter its design all that very much. For Take a flight Me Courageous (1990), the music group finally took over the rock mantle and were left with an excellent hard rock and roll record, using the unusual folk track tossed in. The effect was perhaps stunning and significantly less than fashionable in the years when choice music was simply coming into its. The greatest power of Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ was being a live music group, because they toured tirelessly throughout the South, sketching a keen, college-age market. A Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ present in Atlanta needed to be noticed to be thought — the audio from the audience performing along would in fact drown out Kinney’s very own unusually strong tone of voice. That same calendar year, Kinney recorded the stunning acoustic folk LP MacDougal Blues for Isle. Smoke, another record from Drivin’ n’ Cryin’, premiered by Isle in 1993 and eventually completed the band’s liaison using the label. It had been accompanied by another, actually sparer solo recording by Kinney, Down Out Regulation (Mammoth) in 1994. He followed his solo produces by touring with R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck, who created the first recording, while he as well as the music group also stuffed the distance between their 5th and sixth information performing acoustic times through the entire South. By enough time the more mild Wrapped in Sky, the band’s Geffen debut in 1996, strike the racks, Drivin’ n’ Cryin’ had been nearly neglected — dropped in the void where many rings of their era would end up in the wake of grunge. Kinney, Nielsen, and Sullivan kept strong — with the help of Joey Huffman on keyboards for Wrapped in Sky. Fowler remaining the fold soon thereafter, however the music group continuing to record, liberating the self-titled Drivin’ N’ Cryin’ in 1997. A live arranged, THE FUNDAMENTAL Live Drivin’ n’ Cryin’, arrived in 1999. Next up was a four-song EP, Detroit Town Rock and roll, in 2003, accompanied by another studio room album, THE FANTASTIC American Bubble Manufacturing plant, in ’09 2009. Embracing the immediacy and thematic likelihood of the EP file format, the music group formed its label, New Information, and started issuing some five-song EPs, you start with Songs from your Laundromat in 2012. Another EP, Tunes About Vehicles, Space as well as the Ramones, also made an appearance in 2012. Early 2013 brought the 3rd of four prepared EPs Songs from your Psychedelic WALL CLOCK, a assortment of throwbacks to the first days of garage area and 60’s psyche.