Dead Rock West

“They are a modern day Gram and Emmylou singing songs that Otis and Carla would sing,” says Doe. “Somehow Cindy and Frank connect the dots
between ’70s country and ’60s soul music.” The jingle jangle of the Byrds and the lyrical economy of Buddy Holly, Merle Haggard and Lou Reed inform Frank’s writing style while Cindy loves American classics, from anonymous down home singers to the more sophisticated song styles of Smokey Robinson and vocal teams like Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell.
When paired with Doe and their family of collaborators, the result is positively transcendent and soul-stirring rock magic– the golden harmonies, the unbroken melodies that sound like love in action and that could only have been made in California.

Frank and Cindy’s shared love of country, rock, and soul singing and songwritinghas only grown deeper through their ongoing collaborations with three California songmen: Doe (of X, the Knitters, and the John Doe Band) Dave Alvin (of the Blasters and the Guilty Men and Women) and Peter Case (formerly of the Nerves and the Plimsouls and producer/arranger of Dead Rock West’s second album, Bright Morning Stars).