Album Notes

Shoebox Letters is a Northwest based Americana/alt-country band playing original music and featuring Dennis Winslow on vocals/guitar, David Stricker on bass, Ashley MacEachern on vocals and Miguel Lyons-Cavazos on drums, percussion and vocals.

Shoebox Letters has independently released four CDs - "Shoebox Letters" and "Damaged Goods" "Deepest Darkest Secrets" and "Raise A Ruckus." "Damaged Goods" spent four weeks in the top ten of www.radiofreeamericana.com.

Winslow was a staff songwriter for Warner-Chappel in Nashville in the early 1990s. He had his first cut in 1994 when Kim Hill recorded his song "So Far So Good" as the title track for his BNA release. Since then, he has placed dozens of songs in film and TV through FirstCom Music. He also played guitar and wrote songs for Northwest bands Snapperheads and The Naysayers. Winslow has been pitching songs in Nashville.

Sticker made a big splash doing music for commercials in the 90s. He also played bass for Portland's Billy Rancher and the Unreal Gods which had a deal with Arista. Stricker plays bass for a number of Portland, Oregon based bands and is part owner of Portland recording studio Kung Fu Bakery.

Ashley is a singer/songwriter/poet who has been singing in various musicals, choirs, and living rooms since she could walk. Although she has a bevy of experience signing and performing on stage, Shoebox Letters is her first full-fledged "real" band. When she's not having a blast singing with Dennis, Miguel and Dave, or wrangling unruly words and ideas in her mind into poems, lyrics and prose, Ashley is a corporate writer, a film producer, a children's book author, and a mom. On Sundays she sings in the Unitarian Choir at First Unitarian Church downtown. She grew up in the Bay Area, but has lived in Portland since 1990

Lyons-Cavazos played drums for several bay area bands for a number of years before relocating to Portland, Oregon three years ago. He plays in several other projects in addition to Shoebox Letters.