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Bow Thayer
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When it comes to music with deep roots, Bow Thayer delivers the real thing. Evoking comparisons to Gram Parsons, Bob Dylan, and John Prine, Thayer bares the battle scars of a musical tour of duty through every genre from punk to reggae, bluegrass to delta blues, and then some. Drawing on this wealth of experience and standing on the shoulders of Johnny Cash, Lester Flatt, and Bill Monroe, Thayer's musical vision extends beyond the horizon while taking in the whole landscape. You owe it to yourself to slow down and have a listen.
Why this name?
Bow's parents chose his name. Actually Bow is his middle name, Bowman. It's a family name.
Do you play live?
Bow makes his living playing live: solo, with the Bow Thayer Band, and with The Benders.
Band History:
Bow Thayer got his first guitar when he was 12 as a Christmas gift from his grandmother. He wrote his first song that same year, inspired by Gordon Lightfoot's "The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald."
Bow's subsequent musical career spans two decades and a half-dozen or so genres, from punk rock to bluegrass. He has been the focal point of several highly acclaimed bands, including 7 League Boots, Still Home, Elbow, Jethro, Bow Thayer. His latest recognition has come from fronting both The Benders, featured in No Depression Magazine for their "bending of genres, mixing old time string-band and bluegrass sounds with their rock background," and Bow Thayer and the Euphorians, whose CD entitled Somewhereville was nominated for "Best Roots Rock Act" by the Boston Music Awards.
In the Spring of April 2003, Bow's hands strumming a banjo graced the cover of the Boston Globe's Sunday magazine, as the centerpiece for a story on "Southern Sounds Find Their Way North." This is a bit of a misnomer -- Bow considers his music neither bluegrass, country or Southern rock. In the tradition of his many influences, like The Grateful Dead, Gillian Welsh, John Prine, Lowell George, the Beatles and The Band, it is timeless, and as he explains: "just what comes out."
Bow's subsequent musical career spans two decades and a half-dozen or so genres, from punk rock to bluegrass. He has been the focal point of several highly acclaimed bands, including 7 League Boots, Still Home, Elbow, Jethro, Bow Thayer. His latest recognition has come from fronting both The Benders, featured in No Depression Magazine for their "bending of genres, mixing old time string-band and bluegrass sounds with their rock background," and Bow Thayer and the Euphorians, whose CD entitled Somewhereville was nominated for "Best Roots Rock Act" by the Boston Music Awards.
In the Spring of April 2003, Bow's hands strumming a banjo graced the cover of the Boston Globe's Sunday magazine, as the centerpiece for a story on "Southern Sounds Find Their Way North." This is a bit of a misnomer -- Bow considers his music neither bluegrass, country or Southern rock. In the tradition of his many influences, like The Grateful Dead, Gillian Welsh, John Prine, Lowell George, the Beatles and The Band, it is timeless, and as he explains: "just what comes out."
Your influences?
Bill Monroe, Bob Dylan, John Prine, The Grateful Dead.
Favorite spot?
Right where I'm at.