The Gulf Of Michigan

Brooklyn, NY

Billboard

2007 Brooklyn, New York, USA.

The simplest thing, sometimes. The most obvious thing & right there under your nose.

Faith & good people. Music from the American West. Loud & pure; dramatic & violent & hopeful & yours.

JD Elliott sings & plays guitar & banjo.
Florian Minier plays bass & sings.
Street plays drums for The Gulf of Michigan.
Mathieson "Truckee" Sterling III plays keyboards.
Mr. Thomas Jones plays guitar & sings.

This is the order the band came together.

The band rehearses at The Sweatshop in Brooklyn, New York, USA & lives in Brooklyn, too. The band is from the South and the Southwest but, and this matters, as individuals. The band is from Brooklyn, New York, USA.

The Gulf of Michigan released advance copies of their debut "Honest Girl EP" at The Trash Bar in Brooklyn, NY on Oct 27, 2007. The EP is always free and always available at every show.

Musically, The Gulf of Michigan plumbs the religious longing & fervor of Skip James; the raw, ugly sexuality of Leadbelly; the drunken romanticism of Hank Williams.
Equally important & obvious, too, The Gulf of Michigan attacks these roots, these themes, with an energy & tonality demanded by childhoods entrenched in the selflessness of punk rock & the fury of heavy metal.

The Gulf of Michigan trades in narrative: love songs as murder ballads, murder ballads as love songs. Religious allegories can be ghost stories. Every song is true just like every dream is true.

In the American West the roads are straight & endless.
One has time to think.
And, and but,
eventually
one runs into an ocean.