Spanish for 100

Fusing the emotional honesty and twangy accents of alt-country using the angular, insistent guitar strike of indie rock and roll, Spanish for 100 was shaped in Seattle, WA, within the planting season of 2002. Corey Passons and Ross McGilvary got lately retired their regionally effective group Preston Mill and had been thinking about a project that could give them even more area to explore their fascination with rootsier artists such as for example Neil Youthful, the Jayhawks, and Wilco. Passons and McGilvary fulfilled Aaron Starkey, a musician and songwriter from Chicago who got recently relocated towards the Pacific Northwest. Starkey strike it off with Passons and McGilvary, as well as the initial model of Spanish for 100 was created. In past due 2003, after learning to be a powerful live appeal in Washington condition, Spanish for 100 released their 1st album, Newborn Traveling, which was documented and made by Phil Ek. An EP, Metric, was documented in the summertime of 2004 (also with Ek in the settings) and released in early 2005, and after going right through a disproportionately large numbers of drummers, Spanish for 100 teamed up with percussionist Chris Crumpler, who finally offered the group a reliable lineup. Even more touring followed, using the music group spreading the term right out of the Pacific Northwest in to the Midwest and East Coastline, and in 2007 they released their second full-length album, State WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE to express to Me, written by the impartial Fish the Cat label.