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...traditional instruments—mandolin, banjo, accordion—and a lot of our songs are about traveling,” Warren says. One of her original goals was to create a 12-song concept album with each track featuring a different city. Though she did not achieve the feat, she says the influence of that idea is nonetheless evident on the Great Unknowns’ debut...
...Warren, along with Mike J. Palmer ’03 (guitarist and Eliot House alum), Andy C. Eggers ’99 (drummer/mandolinist and Mather alum) and Altay Guvench ’03 (bassist and Pforzheimer House alum) has constructed a group of strikingly diverse tracks, which share an underpinning sensibility and a roots-rock/Americana vibe that never sounds derivative despite occasional homage to early Wilco, Son Volt or Uncle Tupelo...
...Warren adds that the group didn’t have a specific direction in mind. “We basically just practiced,” he says...
...Unknowns’ lax attitude towards self-promotion and development of a fan base is evident even today—Warren was painfully cautious about asking for fan e-mail addresses, apologizing by saying that she felt “sleazy” and “like [she] was coming onto the audience” by soliciting information...
...band has only recently begun their current forward-moving trajectory. Warren almost quit before the band had really gotten started, but was called back to the music through her obsession with a single album: Lucinda Williams’s Car Wheels on a Gravel Road. “Becky got really psyched about it and got us all really psyched about it,” Eggers says, “though Altay was really skeptical at the start...