Album Notes

I don't know... just listen to what's playing. Live, we are very agressive. We play what we want. We play stuff that makes people gyrate in peculiar ways. Uncontrolably sometimes. It's wierd. But that's what our main influences did to us, and we just want to do the same for others. They need it. They don't even know what the heck we're playing. We don't even try to make it pretty. We play it loud, shake the walls, and make a party out of it all.


HISTORY:

Snakedrive is a four-piece band based in Bloomington, Indiana that has its roots in both North Mississippi Hill Country blues and indie rock. The band got its start when guitarist/lead singer Jeremy Sprague and bassist/singer Brian Petersen went on a pilgrimage to Mississippi to meet their idol, RL Burnside. After having met RL and touring and playing on the street in Mississippi, Petersen, who had a long history with indie bands in Indiana (L.U.V., Lessick's Kid, Black Olive), returned to Indiana and turned his attention more toward the blues, while Sprague returned to his then-home in South Carolina, and refined his style and technique as a disciple of Burnside's.

A year later in the summer of 2002, Sprague returned to his hometown of Bloomington, and he and Petersen formed what eventually became known as Snakedrive. Joined by Alex Puga (O2R Blues Band) on harmonica/vocals and Kevin McCammon on Drums, the group was able to realize their vision of a hard-driving, raucous, foot-stomping blues band that was cast in their own unique mold.