Brad(ford) Sims grew up in Birmingham, Alabama and Houston, Texas… but should have been born about 8 years earlier, since most of his favorite records had all been released by the time he was 10 years old. He turned to music once his baseball career ended (at 13) and hasn’t looked back. He received a degree in music composition from Birmingham-Southern. He has served as a bass player for bands up until recently, when he joined the band Voices in the Trees as a guitarist. He has also been known to sing at times.
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Chase Butler
Chase Butler is a Birmingham-based singer and songwriter who spends most of his free-time holed up in a bedroom recording music. “There’s something about recording and producing your own stuff that helps keep the original personality and soul of a song intact,” he commented, “you work on your own time whether it is nine at night or four in the morning–the freedom is unlimited…until the people below me hit their ceiling with a a broomstick in frustration.” He views songwriting as a conclusion to a lot of premises, “life has a lot of open-ends and tangles, songs help to organize.” He aims to be passionate, honest, and timeless in what he concocts as a musician in the hopes of producing something original and meaningful. “I can remember as a ten year-old sitting at a piano and playing Fur Elise by Beethoven–not so well, I might add–for one of my mom’s friends. She started crying and I had no idea why at the time, but later on in my life the memory resurfaced and I came to this conclusion: there is great power in stringing together notes. Hearts are moved and the soul is encouraged…a good song can never die. Every person has a soundtrack to their life, and my goal is to make loud my own in hopes of connecting paths with someone else.” Chase tries to play where he can, whether it is a local bar, coffee shop, music venue, or church.
Jamie Harper
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Jamie lives in the smallwoods with his wife Tammy and son Isaiah. Isaiah looks exactly like him. Jamie is a banker by day and a conflicted artist by night.
Bari sax is Jamie’s main instrument, but he also plays flute, guitar, and banjo. He’s most comfortable with a little practice and the flexibility of improvisation. Jamie and Tammy are in a band called Handwritten Letters. Jamie is always itching for more opportunities to play that bari…
Josh Wilson
Josh Wilson is a musician, husband, father of one, and grad student from Birmingham, AL. He is a member of the folk explosion called Handwritten Letters as well as the noisy punk rock band The Darling Few. In his spare time, he enjoys teaching his son how to use his telekinetic skills for good.
Michael Battito
Michael comes from Birmingham, AL and currently attends Belmont University in Nashville. Having played drums since the third grade, he picked up the guitar in high school. After graduating from Vestavia High in ’08, he attended the University of Alabama for three semesters majoring in Jazz Studies-Drumset/Percussion Performance until his transfer to Belmont for this current semester. He plans to return to UA in the fall though, after having missed the jazz and the community down in Tuscaloosa. Michael has performed on drums and guitar with many groups around the Birmingham/Tuscaloosa area, including The Markov Chain, Kadesh and the Perfect Strangers, and the UA Jazz Standards Combo.
Wilder Adkins
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Wilder Adkins is from Dixie. He began writing songs on the guitar while in High School and picked up the Appalachian Dulcimer while in college in Birmingham, Alabama. He is one of the founding members of “Salmagundi”, a pirate themed band which only lasted one show. Wilder is known for writing the controversial ballad, “Sweet Potato Henderson”, which he is not legally allowed to release because his brother is the creator of Sweet Potato Henderson the character.
Wilder’s first full-length LP, “Nightblooms”, came out in the summer of 2009. It was self recorded in Atlanta and Birmingham in the fall of 2008.
If you’re looking for a guitarist, dulcimer player, random percussionist, or male vocalist, feel free to contact him.
Will McCarley
Will is a drummer from Vestavia Hills, AL. Having graduated in ’09 from Vestavia High, will now goes to school in Birmingham and works at Birmingham Percussion Center. Previously, Will was the drummer and lead singer for the band Solomon Grundy, also from Vestavia.