Artist description Down from the mountains of Utah to the beaches of southern California, Remedy Motel bring along their independent debut release “6 Days in Westchester”. By combining countrified indie pop sounds with thoughtful, back-road lyrics and harmonies they also bring a new brand of music their label is calling “Porch Rock”.

Music Style Porch Rock

Musical Influences Gram Parsons, R.E.M., CSNY, Lyle Lovett, Willie Nelson

Similar Artists REM, CSNY, Lyle Lovett, Josh Joplin Group, Counting Crows

Artist History In January of 2002 lead singer Mica Johnson circulated a CD of a few songs he’d started writing to a handful of carefully selected musicians. Attached was a note asking anyone who was interested in helping him record the songs to call him. First to ring-up were Mike DiGregorio and Nate Semerad who had recorded two previous albums with Mica while playing in a Salt Lake City band together. Shawn Ryan, a guitar player from San Diego, who recently collaborated with Johnson and DiGregorio in a Los Angeles studio, quickly followed suit. Finally, native SLC drummer Tim Haren signed on and completed the recording line-up. The first meeting of the band spawned five new songs (all of which landed a track on the album). Johnson boldly stated that “…it was obvious after 20 minutes that we had to become a band.” Two months later the 5 members of Remedy Motel cloistered themselves in a friend’s house (containing a make-shift recording studio) for 6 days and subsequently emerged with the tracks for 19 songs. Nineteen self-produced and polished tracks later it was obvious to everyone that Remedy Motel was much more than your average band. The only question is, what will these guys come up with when they have a month of creative time together?

Group Members Mica Johnson - Vocals Nate Semerad - Guitars Mike DiGregorio - Bass & Keys Shawn Ryan - Guitars Tim Haren - Drums

Albums 6 Days in Westchester

Press Reviews There's not a hint of 'me too' in Remedy Motel. A blend of indie pop and folk that's quite delightful! --Static Magazine One of the 30 best bands of 2003. --Cornerband.com An Americana group that sounds like Train (if Train were hip and wrote better songs) co-writing radio hits with Gram Parsons. --SD CityBeat One of San Diego's top 10 Best New Bands of 2002! --Troy Johnson FoxRox Television

Location San Diego, CA - USA

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