Shine Cherries
Writing songs like a slow breeze on a desert afternoon, Albuquerque's Shine Cherries bring you songs of simmering introspection and slow, slow twang. Founded in the tumultuous year of 2001, Albuquerque's Shine Cherries takes the quiet road less traveled. Like a slightly twangier version of the band Low, Michelle Collins (guitar, vocals), Johnny Cassidy (bass, vocals) and Jeffrey Richards (guitar, drums, vocals, banjo) produce music perfect for a hot desert afternoon; like vapor off the mesas after a summer rain.
Shine Cherries have shared stages with bands such as Cat Power, Victoria Williams, The Czars, and Richard Buckner. Previous members of Venus Diablo, Hazeldine, Vic Chesnutt, and Young Black Sabbath Teenagers. Shine Cherries first release, on the baby-faced Little Kiss label, was just released January 2005. Like momma said after whippin up a bunch of blue corn hotcakes..."Get em while they're hot!" Here's a Review of the Album courtesy of Miles Of Music... From Albuquerque, NM, each of the trio that comprises Shine Cherries have individually worked with the likes of Nels Andrews, Vic Chesnutt, Venus Diablo and Hazeldine. Mixing indie rock lethargy with downbeat mountain folk, they have delivered, on their debut 6-track EP, a moody and spare offering of hypnotic splendor.
Singer/guitarist Michelle Collins breathes a slow, almost childlike air of longing into every word while a lazy tempo lumbers along musically with sorrowful beauty. This will interest fans of Transmissionary Six, Low, Jesse Sykes & The Sweet Hereafter and anyone looking for the perfect soundtrack to a fever dream. (Little Kiss Records)
