Artist description The Ashes are a rock 'n roll band.

Music Style Ambient Southern

Musical Influences Velvet Underground, Pavement, Petty, DJ Shadow, Beck, Elmore James, Chemical Brothers,Ma Rainey, Albert King, Charlie Parker, Haydn, Jeff Buckley, Schubert, Springsteen, Ginsberg, Joyce, Leaders of the New School, Hemmingway, Mos Def, Neruda, Ellison

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Group Members Vocals+Guitars: Ashby Pate, Guitars: Houston Wood Drums: David Crenshaw Bass and Backing Vocals: Shawn Avery Vocals+Guitars+Keyboards: Jesse Payne

Instruments *See Members*

Albums Girls+Cars EP [2003]

Press Reviews "After receiving their demo, how could we not award these guys a Fleebie (Citation Award for Best Original Music). They're up-and-comers with a gritty sound." - Fleabomb.com "These guys sound like they sprang from the head of Zeus himself. Lightning bolts, man, lightning bolts. -D. Caspe, Patriot International 107.7 The X and WORKPLAY present the X-PERIENCE Summer Concert Series. ASHBY PATE has been seen playing at the Rocking Horse and Hippodrome this year with his band THE ASHES. He's played with such veteran bluesmen as Willie King and Birmingham George Connor. His style is considered to be very self-conscious and ironic, while still grounded in the Alabama red-clay of his home. Lyrically sophisticated and musically complex. It's rural, sexy, it's gorgeous. It's pop, it's blues, and the guitar playing is stellar. THE ASHES - "These guys sound like they sprang from the head of Zeus himself. Lightning bolts, man, lightning bolts." -David Caspe, Patriot International, Chicago. "They're up-and-comers with a gritty sound." -Fleabomb.com, Online Cool for Birmingham's Wired The Ashes are smart, sexy, American rock 'n roll. Period. With self-conscious arrangements and a rock n' roll swagger, the Ashes don't pull any punches. Whether they're plugged in and delivering sexy American, electric blues or paired down to one of lead singer, Ashby Pate's, acoustic, oftentimes self-effacing, ballads, the Ashes have a continuity in their music that is at once sinful and spiritual, walking that thin line between Saturday night and Sunday morning that most Southern bands have forsaken in order to look and sound like everyone else. The Ashes don't have that problem.

Location Birmingham, Alabama - USA

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