We are four guys who write and play music in Boone, North Carolina.
Here is the hoity-toity version from our press kit:
The Worthless Son-in-Laws are a Boone, North Carolina-based band formed in early 2004. They are a group of friends, old and new, with long and diverse musical histories that inform a mixture of acoustic indie rock, electric southern rock, american roots music, and 80's punk and 90's pop rhythms.
Fate played a role in the band's origins. Long ago, in Athens, Georgia, Jimmy Davidson and Rob Brown played together as founding members of the band Blue George. When Jimmy and Rob found themselves reunited in Boone several years later, purely by chance, they decided to commence a musical recombination several degrees away from their original blues-based direction.
Jimmy's (acoustic guitar/vocals) tortuous musical path has included stints as a restaurant piano player, indie-rock singer/songwriter, and, most notably, member of Vic Chesnutt's Scared Skiffle Group. Rob (electric guitar/vocals) has been in hot pursuit of a wide variety of rock, Americana, and the perfect plate of barbecue. The two guitar players enticed Aaron Cummings (drums) and Rich Crepeau (bass/vocals) to join their musical reunion. Aaron and Rich provide the matrix to which Jimmy and Rob's playing adheres. Aaron, who hails from the wilds of upstate New York, applies rock and funk-based percussion, with the occasional afro-cuban rhythm. Rich tries to reconcile his abiding love of power pop and the truly bizarre with Rob and Jimmy's new south underground.
The tension of four diverse tastes meshing together produces a sound that is unusual and familiar at once. The songs show a heavy emphasis on lyrics and melody. The Worthless Son-in-Laws draw most of their material from Brown's and Davidson's singer-songwriter catalogues but also have a repertoire of covers from the likes of Merle Haggard, Farmer Not-so-John, Vic Chesnutt, Flying Burrito Brothers, Little Feat and John Hiatt.
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