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One Eleven Heavy
12+ albums
USArockAlt-countrysinger-songwriterCosmic American
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Singer-songwriter James Jackson Toth (better known by his nom de plume, Wooden Wand) and guitarist Nick Mitchell-Maiato (better known as the founder of UK psychedelic rock band Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura) met while James was on tour in the UK, back in 2008. They hit it off right away. They not only discovered a shared love of Crazy Horse, The Grateful Dead, Little Feat, NRBQ and Dylan, but also realized they'd arrived at their mutual tastes via an uncanny trajectory through teenage metal goofin', early adulthood Royal Trux obsession, years exploring the weirdo crevices of the improvisational psychedelic underground and a slow ascent back to the surface of celebratory, heart-wrenching guitar music. In the years that followed, during a number of extended tour hangs in both Manchester, UK and Lexington, KY, they began talking about the idea of forming a band together. A band that would blend James's bent for plaintive, sun-scorched lyricism and Nick's craving for a return to the Cosmic American musical landscape that encouraged wilful abandonment of simple rock 'n' roll song structures into ecstatic, exploratory jams. The idea finally began to take shape with the introduction of Dan Brown as bassist. Dan was the modal player who'd taken Royal Trux firmly out of scuzz rock territory and imbued them with the slick, busy, hard rock groove that punctuated that band's major label period. When Nick was offered the chance to submit a track to a forthcoming Bert Jansch covers
