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Name: The Travelling Band Manchester’s great next hope, The Travelling Band is led by the gifted song-writing, impeccable playing, and honeyed harmonies of vocalists/guitarists Adam Gorman, Jo Dudderidge, and Steve “Snaf” Ballinger. The Travelling Band’s shimmering blend of cosmic-country-pop, folk, and bar band rock has made them one of the most talked about artists to emerge from the Manchester music scene. Drawing on influences like Gram Parsons, The Louvin Brothers, CNSY, and Nashville Skyline (Bob Dylan). The Travelling Band have built a strong loyal cult of followers in their home city. The Travelling Band’s story starts not in this rainy city though, but oddly enough in Brazil where guitarist Steve was on holiday and playing some songs in his hotel room, when in a simple twist of fate, he was overheard in the next room by a New Yorker called Richard Ross. Rich was so impressed by what he had heard that he arranged and paid for Steve and his musical buddies from Manchester to come to New York and record their music with some producers he knew. Little did the band know though, that waiting for them at the studio would be legendary producers Eric “Roscoe” Amble and Tim Hatfield, responsible in their time for albums by the likes of Steve Earle, Ryan Adams, and Regina Spektor… The band won the Glastonbury New Talent 2008.
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