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    Artist description
    Four piece unit celebrating the shotgun marriage of straight ahead rock and roll and rural white trash poetry.
    Music Style
    Glammy roots rock
    Musical Influences
    Andy Boy, KISS, Velvet Underground, Van Halen
    Similar Artists
    Cheap Trick meets Woody Guthrie
    Artist History
    Raised int he oxygen-deprived mountains of East Tennessee, bassist John P. Smith, drummer Mark Ryalls and deadbeat poet Brian Relleva developed their Arena-cana appraoch as college bar faves, Brian and the Nightmares. Meanwhile, 3000 miles away, guitarist Kevin Abernathy was shredding ears and swiping chops from West Coast big hairs.
    Group Members
    Brian Relleva -- vocals, guitar, harmonica John Smith -- bass Kevin Abernathy -- guitar, vocals Mark Ryalls -- drums, vocals
    Instruments
    guitars, drums, bass, harmonica
    Albums
    Alienated
    Press Reviews
    Nashville Scene By Jim Ridley August 27, 1998, Music, Local View Shapeshifters, Alienated (Chowder Town Hall) Glammy roots-rock from a Nashville foursome that swings for the back of the arena on its debut CD. "She Always Cries in Kingston," is a bitterly sardonic sketch of two lovers rotting their brains and ambition in a generic small town. Most surprisingly, their best numbers are the ones that indulge an amiably manic sense of humor, especially "What Did I Know (When Did I Know It)" and "Rock City." In the latter, carny-barker frontman Brian Relleva hails Chattanooga's most dubious tourist attraction above all those overrated national parks and monuments. "Mount Rushmore?" he screams with undisguised contempt. "What are those things...MAN-MADE?!?"
    Location
    Nashville, Tennessee - USA

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