Meanflower was formed late one muddy night in August, 2000 at the Galax Fiddler’s Convention in Galax, VA. Soon after that, the band began to make a full-time go of it touring across Virginia and North Carolina in a beat up RV called the Lazy Daze.
Singer/ songwriter Dave McCormack began writing down what would now become 2003’s first great independent release, “...a distant episode”. The band’s early bluegrass beginnings took on a contemporary twang/alt country sound, and way back in March 2001, Meanflower took 10 new songs to their sparse studio attic and put the stuff to tape. The self-released, “Postmark New Mexico” was the result. Full of moving, straightforward lyrics and stirring harmonies, the songs quickly earned the band a loyal Southeastern regional fan-base and the praise of critics on both coasts.
With “… a distant episode”, the band teamed up with producer and musician Peter Griesar (who co-wrote a Grammy Award winning song while with the Dave Matthews Band, Lauren Hoffman) and engineer Rod Coles (Hackensaw Boys, Carter Beauford) to fullfill their bleary-eyed vision. Joining them in the studio, 20 year-old guitarist wunderkind Chris Eldridge (Seldom Scene) lent his talents to the recording. The result, Meanflower’s debut album---inspired songwriting, superior production with a well crafted original sound that leaves you pining for more….
“. . .more than a little magic . . . that good kind of melancholy that makes you realize how lucky you are to still be alive and relatively intact . . .” —Richmond Times-Dispatch
“An intelligent weariness that's as comfortable on the Left Bank as in the New American South.” Walter Salas-Humara of The Silos
“It's that moving, that engaging; it really is music for any time or place.”
Ryan Shepherd, Nancies.org
Meanflower is brothers Dave and Tom McCormack on guitars, vocals, accordion and keys, Lewis Harris (of Bucket fame) on bass and Michael McCormack (from the Los Angeles Mod outfit—The Waking Hours) on sticks and brushes. Kiernan Wagner is the band’s touring drummer. The band is based in Richmond, Virginia. and were recently filmed in Charlottesville, VA. for a British documentary on Music in America. They fall right in line behind modern songwriting greats Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Adams and Mark Linkous.
Singer/ songwriter Dave McCormack began writing down what would now become 2003’s first great independent release, “...a distant episode”. The band’s early bluegrass beginnings took on a contemporary twang/alt country sound, and way back in March 2001, Meanflower took 10 new songs to their sparse studio attic and put the stuff to tape. The self-released, “Postmark New Mexico” was the result. Full of moving, straightforward lyrics and stirring harmonies, the songs quickly earned the band a loyal Southeastern regional fan-base and the praise of critics on both coasts.
With “… a distant episode”, the band teamed up with producer and musician Peter Griesar (who co-wrote a Grammy Award winning song while with the Dave Matthews Band, Lauren Hoffman) and engineer Rod Coles (Hackensaw Boys, Carter Beauford) to fullfill their bleary-eyed vision. Joining them in the studio, 20 year-old guitarist wunderkind Chris Eldridge (Seldom Scene) lent his talents to the recording. The result, Meanflower’s debut album---inspired songwriting, superior production with a well crafted original sound that leaves you pining for more….
“. . .more than a little magic . . . that good kind of melancholy that makes you realize how lucky you are to still be alive and relatively intact . . .” —Richmond Times-Dispatch
“An intelligent weariness that's as comfortable on the Left Bank as in the New American South.” Walter Salas-Humara of The Silos
“It's that moving, that engaging; it really is music for any time or place.”
Ryan Shepherd, Nancies.org
Meanflower is brothers Dave and Tom McCormack on guitars, vocals, accordion and keys, Lewis Harris (of Bucket fame) on bass and Michael McCormack (from the Los Angeles Mod outfit—The Waking Hours) on sticks and brushes. Kiernan Wagner is the band’s touring drummer. The band is based in Richmond, Virginia. and were recently filmed in Charlottesville, VA. for a British documentary on Music in America. They fall right in line behind modern songwriting greats Jeff Tweedy, Ryan Adams and Mark Linkous.
