MP3 Lamont Skylark - High Wire

Roots based songs and harmonies with indie attitude and rock delivery.

9 MP3 Songs
ROCK: Roots Rock, COUNTRY: Country Rock



Details:
Lamont Skylark was formed around the turn of the century. Originally a three piece focused on song writing and solid harmonies, they released an album in 2003 entitled 'Love Poems and Fight Songs" on the now dissolved Broken Home Records. The album was a great success for the small band out of Wilmington, NC. After enduring a few line up changes the band has since been reborn as a four piece which includes original members Kevin Rhodes and Lincoln Morris. Kevin was stuck behind the kit for they're first incarnation, but has since been freed up to explore his song writing abilities on piano and Hammond organ with the addition of not just one but two multi-instrumentalists. Bill Donovan came aboard first, showing up for his audition (if you could call it that) with a Moog Prodigy, Therimin, and a turntable upon which he placed an album of whale songs. He spun it backwards. He also picked up a bass to learn the tunes. I first met Bill when he was playing in a great band called Lily Ire. I remember in briefly speaking with him that his knowledge of music was wide and seemingly nondiscriminatory. Not just if it sounds good it's music as I view it but ,' if it sounds it's music'. The next few rehearsals he showed up with, in no particular order, a wooden flute, trombone, and some percussion instruments. The next addition to the scene was Ted Crenshaw. He first showed up as a guitar player and also brought a banjo and a lap steel. We asked if he could play some bass and I'm pretty sure he said, "I don't give a shit", and by the next rehearsal he had learned all the songs on bass. That's how you get into a band boys and girls. So Kevin and I after a long and frustrating winter hammering out tunes for the next album alone have suddenly found our selves in the middle of Bill and Teds' excellent adventure. Rehearsals now are like, "so you want to play drums on this or trombone?" Each song has become a new band. Like the man said, "The Way Will Show Itself." Previously described as an Alt. Country band, which in my mind these days is any band that plays a standard tuning, strums a G chord and sings three part harmonies, the new line up will surely challenge this generic sub genera of American music. One thing is for sure, Lamont Skylark will continue to write and make music that is honest and true. The kind of music that grows on you like a beard overnight. One day you'll wake up smiling with a tune in your head that reaffirms your faith that a simple melody from a heart felt song transcends fad and the noisy chatter coming from your neighbors TV.