Artist description Digby Wallace is a five piece recording group. The music is alternative pop that sounds somewhat like The Wallflowers with a slight Celtic overtone and Suzanne Vega singing. The instrumental foundation for all the songs is piccolo bass which sounds like an electric cello. In fact all guitar sounds, except the solos, are piccolo bass. Piano, bass, drums, electric guitar and flute fill out the rest of the instrumentation. The velvet-bullet vocals of Kim Lawrence provide the lyric and melodic sound of Digby Wallace.

Music Style Digby Wallace sound is pop vocal / coffee house rock featuring piccolo bass.

Musical Influences Paul Simon, Sting, Gin Blossoms, Sheryl Crow

Similar Artists Natalie Imbruglia, Nina Gordon, Wallflowers, Joni Mitchell

Artist History The group was started in May of 1998 by Bruce Swanson and Kim Lawrence.

Group Members Kim Lawrence has wanted to become a great singer since she was six and would stand in front of the mirror singing Abba tunes into her hairbrush. She has extensive experience singing in Karaoke bars, for her friends in her living room, and in her car. She decided to move beyond singing in the shower and uses her talent in studio work and recording.Garrett Evans is a devout funk freak and Van Halen fanatic. His influences combine the styles of Edward Van Halen with Stewart Copeland and Dennis Chambers, the Greyboy Allstars with Galactic and Rage Against the Machine. The result is a whiplash meter, propelling even the clumsiest dancers to the floor. He started music lessons in the fourth grade and kept at it through college. While in high school, Garrett won the Louie Armstrong award for best jazz student as a senior. He is currently enjoying a burgeoning success with his four piece funk act, Gris-Gris (gre'gre). http://www.mp3.com/grisgrisBruce Swanson is the songwriter, piccolo bass, and bass and keyboard player of the group. Like the rest of the group, he had an early start. Watching a neighborhood garage band hooked him while in elementary school. He saved his lawn mowing money to buy a Sears Silvertone guitar and started his own garage band. Later on, Bruce switched to bass and studied jazz and composition while in college. After too many bar bands and near successes, he decided to find his “own voice,” which lead him to the piccolo bass and Digby Wallace. Other than the guitar solos by Jim Boardman on the Digby Wallace CD, all the guitar “sounding” voices are actually produced by the piccolo bass.Jim Boardman provided all the great guitar solos for the CD. He was musically trained at the College of Music at the University of Colorado at Denver. Jim quite capably constructs solo parts to fit any style of music from the mellow-jazz flavor of “When You’re Here” to the tasty Celtic-rock fills on “Hold Me” on the Digby Wallace CD, “Sweet Talk”. His past experiences, besides the usual band routine, include writing film and television music as well as a stint in the house band for the TV game show, Nitro.Dennis McCarthy has an extensive background in jazz and Latin music and excels in percussion as well as flute. Although his musical preferences run along the lines of John McLaughlin, he is adept in many styles. Recently, as a reward for his talents, Dennis was given a gift of a shakuhachie flute from a 75-year-old flute master while visiting in Japan.

Instruments Voice, piccolo bass, bass, piano, electric guitar, flute, drums, percussion

Albums Digby Wallace -

Press Reviews REVIEWS of Digby Wallace's CD "Sweet Talk" I’m very impressed with this band. This is a very well developed sound and is very appealing on a number of levels. The voice is clean, clear and emotional. Players are all very strong and feel good together. Open Bar - Make A Star .com ......"a truly excellent 'n unique pop release - VERY good!!" LordLitter, LordLitter RadioShow (Berlin and Europe) All the performances are solid and everyone shows great pop sensibilities. The lead vocal has tons of charm and personality. The performance has great energy and sparkle. I think as a band (they) have a lot of marketability. Rhino - Make A Star.com

Location Aurora, CO - USA

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