Album Notes

Referred to by Performing Songwriter Magazine as “brilliant and incomparable”, by All The Rage as Nashville’s “It Band” and and by Music Row Magazine as the “Best Unsigned Band of the Year”, The Bees (U.S.) formed when producer Jason Lehning met singer/songwriter Daniel Tashian. Tired of predictable modern rock, they began to conceive a sound relying heavily on songwriting and harmonies. After finishing the recordings that would later become their debut album, Starry Gazey Pie, bootleg copies rapidly circulated among the band’s rapidly growing fan bass prompting The Nashville Scene to proclaim the record “2002’s most borrowed, least returned CD.” In anticipation of the official record release and the band’s SXSW showcase, the Austin Chronicle commented "as yet untitled, but near brilliant, is the upcoming debut from the Bees, a Nashville-based pop/roots outfit that's the brainchild of former T-Bone Burnett protégé Daniel Tashian.” Starry Gazey Pie was independently released in 2004 and at the request of the band Guster, The Bees (U.S.) signed on as their opening act for dates throughout the Northeast and Midwest. The album has received airplay from tastemakers such as WFNX in Boston and KCRW in Los Angeles, and was chosen by XM Radio’s The Loft for their 2005 Top Ten list. The band has recently wrapped recording for their sophomore release “High Society” which will be released in spring 2006. The Bees (U.S.) are Tashian on 12 string guitar and vocals; Lehning on piano, juno 60, vocals; John Deaderick on vocals and bass and David Gehrke on drums and vocals.

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