The Catbirds

Chandler Travis cannot carry out anything with a completely straight encounter; throughout his profession, his excursions in pub music group, rock and roll & roll, fresh wave-influenced power pop, and eclectic jazz-influenced big-band music have already been delivered having a understanding wink and a sly feeling from the absurd, however nothing he’s completed has have you been simply “funny.” He’s not really a parodist or a comedian, even more of an unrepentant intelligent aleck. In lots of ways, he’s like Massachusetts’ response to R. Stevie Moore. Created and elevated in the Cape Cod city of Eastham, Massachusetts, Travis got his musical begin in the past due ’60s for the fertile Boston music picture, starting out having a teenage garage area music group called the nice Fairies, that they transformed to the St. Wayne Infirmary after they noticed the implications of their unique name. In 1969, the guitarist and songwriter fulfilled up with Steve Shook, another regional musician, and shaped Travis Shook & the Golf club Wow, a loose-knit group that performed the Boston night clubs for two years before conference comedian George Carlin, who was simply so taken using the duo’s combination of rough-edged, R&B-laced rock and roll & move and significantly prominent wordplay and musical humor, that he employed them as his starting act, a posture they would maintain before early ’80s. For the reason that period, the group just recorded one recording, 1973’s THE FUNDAMENTAL Travis Shook & the Golf club Wow, that they released independently label, the puckishly called Just Like Genuine Records. The recording presented songwriting and playing the help of various people of cult heroes NRBQ, a music group which would quickly become inextricably intertwined with Travis’ musical profession. In 1981, Travis & Shook determined that the idea of Travis Shook & the Golf club Wow had opted so far as it might; with fresh drummer Vince Valium (also called Rikki Bates) and guitarist Johnny Spampinato, sibling of NRBQ’s Joey Spampinato, Travis & Shook created a whole new music group known as the Incredible Casuals. Poppier than Travis Shook & the Golf club Wow, having a sound comparable to the new variety of post post-punk acoustic guitar jangle groups appearing out of cities like Athens and Hoboken, the Amazing Casuals debuted with 1982’s Summer time Fun, Let’s Proceed EP, but didn’t launch their 1st full-length, That’s That, until 1987. Carrying on a release routine commensurate with the music group name, the follow-up didn’t show up until 1991; Your Seems premiered on the neighborhood indie Sonic Trout. The 3rd Amazing Casuals record, IT REALLY IS Balloon, wasn’t released until 1996, where period the group experienced downshifted right into a part-time task; when Big Al Anderson still left NRBQ in 1993, Johnny Spampinato overran the electric guitar role for the reason that long-running music group. As the Amazing Casuals wound down, Travis belatedly began his solo profession with 1992’s eclectic, Truck Dyke Parks-like Writer-Songsinger, offering guest looks by Shook and David Greenberger. 1998’s Ivan in Paris, a restrained and mainly severe folk-jazz pop record, can be an atypical follow-up, but a fantastic one. That sidestep was adopted almost instantly by the forming of the Chandler Travis Philharmonic, an eight-piece music group with a complete horn section. Their debut recording was documented in 1998 and originally announced beneath the name Her Stewardess Suitcase, however when it had been finally released in past due 2000, the recording name had been transformed to Let’s Possess a Pancake. Also in 2000, Chandler Travis announced that his personal CD-R label, Iddy Biddy Information, would concern 26 CDs of previously unreleased materials that year; in the long run, only 22 had been released, offering live and studio room recordings from the Chandler Travis Philharmonic, the Incredible Casuals, and Travis Shook & the Golf club Wow, and offered by concert events and through the Sonic Trout site. In ’09 2009, Travis released the recording After She Remaining, and by 2011, he was remaining busy along with his side task the Catbirds, who released the EP Viborate. The Catbirds’ solitary “Gonna Maintain Drivin'” adopted in 2012.