The Gulf Of Michigan

2007 Brooklyn New York USA. The Simplest Thing Sometimes. The Most Obvious Thing & Right There Under Your Nose. Faith & Good People. Music From The American West. Loud & Pure Dramatic & Violent & Hopeful & Yours. JD Elliott Sings & Plays Guitar & Banjo & Keys & Some Other Nonsense Too.
Florian Minier Plays Bass & Keys & Sings & Sometimes Drums. The Band Is From Brooklyn New York USA. In December Of 2009 The Gulf Of Michigan Relocated To Savannah Georgia Leaving Behind Many Great Musicians And Many Great Friends. The Gulf Of Michigan Released Advance Copies Of Their Debut "Honest Girl EP" At The Trash Bar In Brooklyn NY On Oct 27 2007. It Was Their First Performance. In The Fall Of 2009 The Band Released The New "Country Mile EP" Recorded With Andrew Mathews At His Exit 4 Plan Studio In Brooklyn. Musically The Gulf Of Michigan Plumbs The Religious Longing & Fervor Of Skip James The Raw Ugly Sexuality Of Leadbelly The Drunken Romanticism Of Hank Williams.
Equally Important & Obvious Too The Gulf Of Michigan Attacks These Roots These Themes With An Energy & Tonality Demanded By Childhoods Entrenched In The Selflessness Of Punk Rock & The Fury Of Heavy Metal. The Gulf Of Michigan Trades In Narrative Love Songs As Murder Ballads Murder Ballads As Love Songs. Religious Allegories Can Be Ghost Stories. Every Song Is True Just Like Every Dream Is True. In The American West The Roads Are Straight & Endless.
One Has Time To Think.
And And But Eventually
one Runs Into An Ocean. 2010 Savannah Georgia USA. read less