Steven Gullett

I'm a Dayton OH area singer songwriter in the folkpunk vein.

Still the perpetually dissatisfied songwriter his fans have come to love and relate to, Steven Gullett says his third solo CD, Songs About Them & Me & You, is “More mellow and less melancholy.” The record features two of what he calls his most “light-hearted” songs, “Look What Music Did To Me” and “Southern Belle.” But it balances them out with songs about death and loss (“Angels Are Never Enough”) and fears of growing old alone (“Whatever Comes Closest”). And when he chose a cover, it was the melodic “Some Hearts,” one of the last demos Johnny Thunders recorded before he died. Steven Gullett continues to blur the lines between rock ‘n’ roll and acoustic music to create something uniquely his own. Steven has more than a decade’s worth of experience playing music, both as the driving songwriter in a series of glam-punk/rock n’ roll bands and as a solo performer. As a member of Love Lies Bleeding and The Mystery Addicts, he’s shared the stage with Guided By Voices, Electric Frankenstein, The Dead Kennedys and Hamell On Trial. Based in Dayton, Ohio, his bands have toured from coast to coast, making plenty of new converts along the way. But he has always returned to the brutal honesty of the acoustic stage, where songs live and die on their own merit. “There’s something so raw & bare about one voice & one guitar that just can’t be beat,” he says. His debut solo CD, Cheap Reflections, was recorded on 4 and 8 track machines. A stripped down departure from his band releases, the result is a sparse but immediate sound; rough vocals overtop the thick tones of a jumbo acoustic and sparing electric overdubs. After leaving The Mystery Addicts, Steven wrote, recorded and released Sad Like Marilyn, with improved production and a tighter sound, at the end of 2002. His second CD met with praise from critics, fans and fellow musicians alike. Armed with a catalog of over 200 songs, Steven blurs the genres that try to define him from Rock to Ballads to Punk to Alt Country and aggressive Antifolk. The constant core among the diversity is solid, honest songwriting, melodic hooks, & intelligent wordplay spiked with a poet’s phrasing. Thanks to airplay on radio stations WOXY, WYSO, WXEG & an appearance on the WB’s nationally televised “Daily Buzz” morning show, Steven is making fans along the East Coast and around the Midwest. Songs About Them & Me & You was released in Fall 2003. Lyrics, promo pictures and additional press clips are available at www.stevengullett.com

I play live mostly around the Midwest.

Dark Songwriters & Trashy Real Rock N Roll. Examples: Tyla, John Easdale, Paul Westerberg, Rolling Stones.

Alvarez & Epiphone acoustic & electric guitars, Yamaha DG stomp & '79 Musicman HD130 amp.