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E. Christina Herr & Wild Frontier
6+ albums
santa fe indieindie
about
E. Christina Herr realized at an early age that music is not just a sound coming out of the radio. After all, her grandfather was a professional Jazz musician, her mother played piano and she grew up next door to Linda Ronstadt. It was Ronstadt’s guitar player, Shep Cooke, who gave Christina her first guitar and taught her to play “Wildwood Flower” in her Ocean Park, California home. She started writing poetry and songs at 13. Her mother said the songs sounded like lullabies. Christina began creating music mostly for herself behind closed doors for many years. After drifting around the country she landed back in Los Angeles just as Punk Rock was becoming the rage. Christina found herself caught up in that electrifying whirl of creativity, soon leaving the halls of thrash for the vibrant Rockabilly scene. She formed the band Jumpin’ Bones with Randy Weeks on lead guitar. The group became a fixture at venues like Club Lingerie and Cathay de Grande on the Sunset Strip, even opening occasionally for Rose Maddox. Soon Christina was asked to join the Comstock Jug Band with Smokey Hormel on drums. They called their music “Jug Rock”, a mix of Bluegrass and Rockabilly with a Hee-Haw attitude. The band was, to say the least, controversial but ahead of its time. She took on a side project, Days of Glory, to delve deeper into alt Country and Bluegrass. It was Americana music before there was a name for the genre. While Guns & Roses was climbing the charts, Days of Glory was turning Ra
