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"I love my Zeta so much, I don't need a boyfriend anymore."
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“There are sounds and feels I can get on the Crossover that I couldn't get out of the fretless guitar bass...The Crossover is all over the last two Mollys albums and the studio engineers were knocked out by the way it records.”
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Band
Name
The Mollys
Zeta
Instrument
Crossover Bass
Bio
[I] Grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and moved to the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. as a teenager. There I started playing professionaly as a lead guitar player, with occasional work on keyboards and bass, in cover bands doing rock 'n' roll, R&B, and country, as well as several groups doing original material. Moved to Southern Arizona and have been playing bass and some guitar in The Mollys, a Tucson-based touring folk roots band with five studio CDs, since 1991. My road bag always has CDs by a wildly diverse bunch of great players and writers, including Sonny Rollins, Dave Alvin, Los Lobos, John Hiatt, Ry Cooder, Miles, The Gourds, Joe Ely and, in general, anything with Jim Keltner playing on it.
The Mollys play a mix of original and traditional folk/roots music - country, Mexican, Irish, folk - using traditional instruments (penny whistle, guitars, accordion, harmonica and bouzouki) and strong vocals with electric bass and drums. Critics, music business people and fans have been stumped on how to categorize the music of The Mollys. Lately, I've taken to calling it "tangled roots music." As the band has evolved, more influences are heard. Rather than a deliberate attempt to be eclectic, it's a matter of whatever style suits the song.
Like most of the U.S., our home in Tucson is a melting pot. The main ingredient on Tucson's West and South Sides, where Nancy McCallion grew up, is Mexican-American. Mariachi, norteño music and country music are a steady background. Lead vocalist and songwriter McCallion, who founded The Mollys in 1990, plays guitar, tin whistle and harmonica. Bassist Dan Sorenson plays fretless electric and Zeta electric upright basses; he grew up in St. Paul, MN, and the Washington, DC, area. He played with rock, country, R&B and original bands in DC and Arizona, where he's lived since late 1976. Our new drummer, Marx Loeb, has played with Eyepennies, Gila Bend, Al Perry & The Cattle, singer-songwriter Chris Burroughs, local bar band fave Los Lasers and an early version of The Dusty Chaps - acts that put Tucson on the musical map. Accordionist Kevin Schramm grew up in New Jersey, just outside Philadelphia, playing accordion and hearing the big city music mix. Ex-Los Angeles guitarist Danny Krieger has played with Debbie Davies, Coco Montoya, Bobby Whitlock, Johnny Rivers, Sam Taylor and Dobie Grey. He was inducted into the Arizona Blues Hall of Fame in 1999. (He lost the award the same day, leaving it on the roof of his car as he drove off with his head in the clouds.). It all adds to the musical stew that is The Mollys today.
News
The Mollys have just released their 6th CD and are touring in support of that release, Only A Story. Their last CD, Moon Over the Interstate was voted one of the top ten albums of 1998 by readers of the Italian music magazine, Buscadero. Buscadero readers also chose THE MOLLYS as new artist of the year for 1998.
The Mollys' 1997 release Hat Trick made the Top Ten list of The Washington Post. On We Go, a song from The Molly's 1995 CD, This Is My Round was
included on Putamayo's first Celtic Women of the World recording.
link
to web site
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6 September, 2010
