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FresYes People – The Local Sound of The Long Black Veils

January 8, 2015 by Kendra Gilbert Leave a Comment

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A new year calls for new music. New local music. Formed in 2010, with two albums and dozens of live gigs played around the Central Valley and California under their belts, The Long Black Veils have been at it for a while. But don’t think that because they’ve been around for a few years, there’s nothing new to talk about when it comes to this quartet of guys from Selma.

Playing Peeve’s in Nov. 2014.
At the New Rock 104.1 studios for Homegrown.
Playing a gig in 2014.

With their second album In The Dark now available for digital download, a third in rehearsals and a live show set for January 29 at Fulton 55, now is the time to get to know the band…if you aren’t already an LBV groupie. Maybe you’ve heard of a band called the Beatles. Or a guy named Bruce Springsteen. Or Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Sr., Wilco. Then you’ll probably like the “unclassifiable” rock sound of The Long Black Veils, who draw inspiration from musical greats in many genres like pulling the names of who’s-who in Americana-rock-country music out of hat.

The band’s name comes from the oft-covered country standard “Long Black Veil,” which lead singer Rob Avalos remembers his late uncle playing for him shortly before he died.

Listen to Rob talk about how the band got started and what they’ve got in store for 2015.

Members:

Rob Avalos – vocals, guitar, harp

Johnny Serpa – drums, guitar

Rob Weeks – bass

Sean Lowrie – flute, mellotron, keys, and mandolin

Hometown: Selma

Albums: 2

Recommend: “Win-u-Over” on the new album In The Dark.

Check out their YouTube Channel HERE, their Website HERE and iTunes HERE

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Kendra Gilbert is a writer born and raised in Clovis. She has written for publications from Boston to Los Angeles and loves writing about fashion and people most of all. The abbreviated list of things she enjoys outside of writing includes: thrifting, photography, harmonica, beer, movies, hiking and skee ball.
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