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Title: The Buffalo Creek EP
Release date: 26 October, 2004
Record label: Jive/Zomba
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American Minor is a five-piece guitar-driven rock and roll band that hails from the Kanawha River valley of southern West Virginia;
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not exactly known for being a hotbed of musical activity or a hotbed of anything else really. For the past year, when their van hasn't been breaking down on the highway, they've been practicing at blistering volumes in a run-down century old farmhouse in Champaign, Illinois.
Four out of the five members have spent time living in a trailer, three have done construction work, none of them come from musical families, and while all five will agree that Deep Purple is a pretty bitchin' rock group, all five will say the same thing about Fugazi. Ask these young men (21-25 if you care) anything more about their influences and they’ll gladly admit to worshiping at the altar of the classics; Stones, Skynyrd, AC/DC, Ramones, Heartbreakers, Mats’, Lennon, Sabbath, etc. but they seem to speak ‘indie-rock’ with equal fluency. They’re just as likely to give it up for Pavement or The Refused. Must be a generational thing – or maybe these boys just love great music and don’t really care what you call it.
These West Virginians pride themselves on writing songs-with no pomp, no circumstance-about things they experience in everyday life: the mentally ill struggling in the streets of their dilapidated hometown; the police interrogating a suicidal neighbor late at night in their apartment building; the verbal masturbations that spew forth from loose women on tour; and the deranged people they wished they never had the opportunity to meet. When asked about their "mission" as a band, lead vocalist Robert McCutcheon very matter of factly points out the absurdity of that question, "Last time I checked, rock bands don't go on missions, the only thing I can really think to say in response to that question is that we're an American band. And in accordance to the well-established and long-standing tradition of the 'American Band', we're coming to your town--we come to party down."
Robert McCutcheon - Vocals
Bud Carroll – Guitars
Josh Gragg – Guitars
Bruno Young – Bass
Josh Knox - Drums
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