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Little Pieces
12+ albums
rockindie rockindieamericanseattle
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Little Pieces is Sunset Valley frontman Herman Jolly and the bang-up rhythm section of Grant Badger and Rob Lloyd—a partnership that was a long time coming, indeed. Here's the story: Bassist Badger and drummer Lloyd hail from Illinois, where both grew up in rival towns near St. Louis. They met and began playing together while at U of I in Champaign, where their band, Bantha, was a fearsome battering ram of rock. An unbreakable connection was formed in their bass-drum interplay, and after the Champaign years, they hit Seattle via Chicago, backing Lanterna and Chris Mills along the way. In Seattle they played as a two-piece, appropriately named Guitar Defamation League. While playing with Chris Mills, Badger and Lloyd occasionally crossed paths with labelmates Sunset Valley at SXSW, CMJ, and around the Pacific Northwest. (Mills was actually covering a Herman Jolly tune, "Crooked Vein”, at the time.) Even then, Herman, Grant and Rob seemed to have some connection that went beyond intermittent partying, and the instant friends stayed in loose touch over the years. Flash forward to 2006. Herman Jolly moves out of Montana to Seattle. After four lionized Sunset Valley records, he was set to release his third solo album and needed a band--it took about five seconds for the natural solution to surface, and after one rehearsal, the equation became obvious: Jolly + Badger + Lloyd = SUPERGROUP. For a few months, they played under Herman's name, supporting Jolly's album, Bunker Life. A
