Bio:

Standing at the junction where Soul, Pop, and Rock N' Roll meet is Bryan Cherry, a band that stretches musical boundries all while sounding unmistakably familiar. Consistently dancing over the lines of genre classification, touching on elements of blues-rock, folk & soul, Bryan Cherry's product exhibits nothing more than a love for music deeply rooted within each member.

Powering Bryan Cherry are four talented players with the drive to make unique and memorable music. Songwriter & vocalist Bryan Cherry has a voice & sound distinct to himself. Songwriter & guitarist Sean Williamson brings his own blues-rock and jam band based voice out at every opportunity. Drummer Chad Clausen plays with the Bonham quality everyone wishes they had. Bassist Matt Turner plays like Matt Turner. A music whose sound proves that it is still possible for both power and beauty to be heard and more importantly felt down to the deepest bone in your body.

From MKE Article by Nathanial Miller:

Many of us have had revelatory experiences listening to music in a dimly lighted room. Some take it further than others. Bryan Cherry had just such a moment three years ago when he heard "Blackbird" (from the Beatles so-called "White Album") for the first time.

"I don't know exactly how he's doing that, but I want to do it," Cherry said to himself, and he hasn't looked back since.

This is not to say that Cherry fashioned himself as a latter-day Paul McCartney. Without a single guitar lesson, or anyone telling him how to write or sing, he fashioned himself as himself.

The result, and Cherry describes it best, is "like '70s soul music and classic singer-songwriter music had some remarkable sex, and a dusty old soul was born."

Cherry started playing with a full band about four months ago - Sean Williamson, Chad Clausen, Dylan Simpson and Kevin Tarbox fill it out - and his sound, while still creaky and raw, is now rooted in a rock foundation.

That emotional intensity is what Cherry wants to convey in his forthcoming EP. He and the band are working with respected Milwaukee producer Mike Hoffman and are hoping for a late summer/early fall release date.

"I want it to feel like it's moving," Cherry said in an interview at Anodyne. "(Even though) it's on a tape or CD, you should still feel like we're right there with you in the room."

He already has advantages. Cherry comes to the stage and studio armed with an impressively gritty soul-croon (which seems like it could produce gale-force sound when unleashed) and a deep distrust of the capitalist system that might seek to derail him through economic dissatisfaction.

In other words, music may not be the most effective money-making scheme, but that's all right.

"What I'm doing in music is making me grow," he said. "(I can't) make sacrifices based on whatever positions or possessions might be out there."