On July 13, 1999, Dictionary.com's word of the day was Bellwether, a Middle English word for the lead sheep in a flock, and a metaphor worth aspiring to for the guys in the band of its namesake. The members of Warsaw's melodic rock band, Bellwether, have come a long way in just a little over a year since its reforming in late 2005. Longtime songwriter Eric Squires and his brother, Joel, had been playing together since they were kids. In 2001, Eric decided to take his acoustic meanderings to a band setting, collaborating with Joel on bass and Huntington, Indiana's Ben Laatsch on guitar. They teamed up with a drummer from school and played for a while in and around Huntington. In 2004, their drummer moved to the east coast, reducing Bellwether to its previous state. Ben moved on to pursue his own musical endeavors with his late band, Brew, and still remains a good friend of the band, while Eric began teaming up with bass player and cellist extraordinaire, Daniel Zambrano, with whom he had previously played in a local jazz combo. They played regularly in the Warsaw area for several months under various names when Joel approached Eric and said he wanted to play again as Bellwether. Dan stayed on at bass, while Joel tried his hand at the drums, having played only a few times before. Two days later, Eric called up Joel's friend, Joshua Jacoby, who had played guitar with Eric and Joel in Grace College's Homecoming Variety show. Josh agreed to give it a try, and in December of 2005, Bellwether took its current form. Now, over a year later and one full-length, independent album behind, Bellwether is regularly playing shows all over northeast Indiana, and achieving accomplishments such as winning the Seeker's Coffehouse Battle of the Bands and being featured in Ft. Wayneâs Journal-Gazette. Currently, Bellwether is moving beyond the coffee shop scene with an edgier sound that carries the emotion of their second full-length album in progress: The Forgotten Keys. TFK is a concept album that is an outpouring of the band's collective creative effort, spanning a range of styles within and without Bellwetherâs own folk-rock roots, conceptually formulated as a disjointed story and a musical play on words. From here, the guys of Bellwether are hoping to continue to grow as a band, and are in no hurry to chase down fame and fortune, but should an opportunity arise, they are not opposed to taking it. With enough material for several more full length albums, their road is just beginning.