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Artist
Drea Gunness
10+ albums
about
Where does a kid from small-town New Hampshire get the kind of empathetic, down-and-dirty song and lyric writing skills that Drea has shown on her first album? You will find here not just the bio, but the journey that she took from home to her first musical offering, this great, raucous, broad-audience collection of thoughts put to music. Things didn't turn out the way the 'Rents had planned (especially Momma 'Rent). While she begrudgingly took the obligatory piano and voice lessons demanded by her musically-inclined extended family (along with trumpet, trombone, French horn and organ), Drea, always hard-headed and free-spirited, played and sang her own crashing music and lyrics anywhere and everywhere she could. She would make such a racket in the house that her folks would send her to her room just to get some peace and quiet. She wrote her first song at the age of twelve, and one could readily see the influences of Gwen Stefani, Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette, Metallica, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith and Janis Joplin, to name a few. After high school, Drea spent 2 years at a college near New York City, and, always band shopping, became the front woman and song writer for a group named "Left Two Lanes". This band's focus was heavy alternative rock, and female lead singers were definitely not the norm. This made gigging in New England and New York difficult, as many of the venues booked all-male lineups. Drea held her own with the best of them, but after a while felt that "Left T
