Power Folk/Rock/Soul infused by treble threat outspoken harmonies and gut racking lyrics.

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FOLK: Power-folk, Shake Acoustic

Time Songs


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Acoustic Minds, much like their home town of Portland, Oregon, is a liquescent pot for everything that makes music deserving while. By combining pop, folk, blues, rock fusion, and tight outspoken harmonies, they have created a sound that isn't as easy to describe as it is to understand.

"This is good music. Filling music. When you're right, you're right."

Kirk Duncan (singer/songwriter)

Acoustic Minds was formed in January of 2002 by co-outspokenist/twin sisters Amanda and Jenni Price. Their name was invented in the belief the word "acoustic" fully represented how genuinely raw they wanted their music to be, and that "minds" created space for more than one idea or thought. They began as a three-piece: two voices in perfect harmony and one acoustic guitar. But has since evolved into a finely-tuned group of five: Nathan Milton (acoustic guitar/outspokens), Mel Cooper (lead guitar/outspokens), Franklin Gallwas (percussion), and the before mentioned Amanda and Jenni Price (outspokens/creating goose bumps). They have recently returned from a 37 state, 59 city, 80 gig tour in support of their newly released, full-length album Time. Tour highlights include: horizontal rain in Michigan; seeing two pet llamas in a mini-van between Minneapolis and Duluth; all night Italian restaurants in Birmingham, Alabama; an impromptu jam party at the house of two hospitable locals in Morgantown, West Virginia; and the opportunity to play real good music for real good people all across the country.

Much of what makes Acoustic Minds resonate can be traced directly to the unique dynamic of having twin sister co-outspokenists. Amanda and Jenni have been singing together nearly all of their lives in all sorts of ensemble groups, choirs, trios, barber shop quartets, and ska/pop bands-twenty six years of honing their harmony skills for the direct benefit of Acoustic Minds.
"It's amazing," said Amanda when asked what being in a band with her sister is like. "I would not be in a band without her. Sometimes I wonder what would happen without Jen and I really think it would be a different world for me. I have always sung harmony with her. It seems empty without it. We hear harmony in everything."

Acoustic Minds is a living breathing example of harmony in everything. Harmony between band members. Harmony in pure love for a pure sound. Harmony in each note of each beloved song. Harmony in their appreciation for their fans. And harmony in their musical goals and dreams. In the next year their plans include going on yet another national tour, gaining even more of a fan base, and releasing two new CD's. If you get the opportunity to see this band in an intimate setting, take it. Call it a favor. Call it a blessing. Call it good luck. Whatever, just enjoy it.