Biography

Bass player and recording engineer Kevin Andrews (http://www.myspace.com/jrhawkinsdrums) also plays Chapman Stick, guitar, mandolin, Dobro and drums. He has performed with Elegy, C. Roxity, Meliane Hammett, The Cass Kennedy Group, Turbid Blue, Caroline Aiken, Matthew Kahler, Straw Village, Whatever, David Patterson Band, Bongo Wrench, Hoplites and others. Andrews has also written and played music for corporate projects, including for Siemens and BellSouth.

Drummer J.R. Hawkins (http://www.myspace.com/jrhawkinsdrums) began his career in 1985 with "Rocky Horror Live" with RuPaul. Over the next the 10 years, Hawkins performed in Broadway shows included "The Who's Tommy," "Little Shop of Horrors" and "Beehive" with Mary Wilson of the Supremes. In 1996, he was a drum instructor to more than 200 drummers from around the world for Atlanta's Olympic opening ceremonies music composed by "Grateful Dead" drummer Mickey Hart and conducted by John Williams. Hawkins' own band, Swami Gone Bananas, has performed in the Southeast for the past 10 years.

Guitarist Spencer Kirkpatrick (http://www.myspace.com/spencergtr) was part of the popular Southern rock band Hydra from 1969 to 1978. In its heyday, Hydra opened for some of the top headliners. The Atlanta band signed a recording contract with Capricorn Records and its self-titled album Hydra came out in 1974 and Land of Money in 1975. The band essentially disbanded shortly after its 1977 Rock the World album, but has performed several reunion concerts. Kirkpatrick has been a professional musician since he was 15 years old. His first band, the Atlanta Vibrations, won a Vox-sponsored Battle of the Bands to for the Beatles in Atlanta in 1965.

Local musician Walter Hinton (http://www.myspace.com/whinton) plays violin, mouth harp and mandolin.