Alan Oberdorf, songwriter from the band "US" has started a side project with help from some friends and relatives he calls the Bad Owl Project. Much of Alan’s music in the “Bad Owl Project” reflects on life in northwest Montana, and Alan's personal take on life in general. “Much of today’s music is angry and the lyric’s are very cryptic. If you are not well informed on the subject of the song sometimes they are hard to understand. The Bard’s and Jongular’s of Medieval Europe carried news, gossip, and history in prose and song. This type of music has evolved and continues to do so as today’s pop and rock songs.” Alan calls his music Rural Slowburn, a type of folk influenced by, country rock, rock and other styles. Alan say’s “My music is rough and unrefined, cause I’m (Less than Perfect)”, that is also the title of Alan’s first CD. Alan's new CD "Acoustic Ignorance" will be released soon. He hopes people enjoy his music, but if not “Pate’ de Foie’ Gras” and die. (W. Powell 1999)