The Only Children

Hard as it might end up being to assume, emo ‘s been around very long enough like a music style that not merely is there second- and third-generation emo rings, nowadays there are rings which could logically end up being dubbed “post-emo,” like the Just Children. THE ONLY REAL Children’s innovator, Josh Berwanger, was guitarist and vocalist for the Lawrence, KS, emo stalwarts the Wedding anniversary from 1997 to 2004. During the period of two albums along with a blizzard of singles and break up EPs, the Wedding anniversary had been the textbook description of emo, right down to having been found out by picture godfather Matthew Pryor from the Get Up Children and being authorized to the canonical emo label Vagrant Information. However when the Anniversary divided in early 2004, Berwanger, bassist Wayne David, and drummer Christian Jankowski shaped a new music group, Josh Berwanger & the Holy Spirits, with Canadian Heidi Lynne Gluck (also one-third of Some Women with Juliana Hatfield and Freda Like) on accordion and body organ, Hot Pole Circuit’s Casey Prestwood on pedal metal, and blues guitarist T.K. Webb. Those three fresh members directed toward Berwanger’s fresh, rootsy Americana path. Quickly renaming themselves the only real Children, the music group released its warmly countrified debut, Modification of Living, in nov 2004, but after a protracted tour, Webb came back to his single profession and David and Jankowski remaining the band. Keeping Gluck and Prestwood and adding fresh guitarist Ricky Salthouse and drummer Ryan Benton, the only real Children returned making use of their second recording, Keeper of Youngsters, in the springtime of 2007.