You can purchase our CD at The Antiquarium Record Store, Drastic Plastic, and Homer's Music locations. Visit the Homer's online store:
homersmusic.com
The album can also be purchased here: cdbaby.com,
or on the good ol' iTunes:www.apple.com/itunes/
For those tired of the standard-issue indie rock that emanates from Omaha like the stench from a South O packing house, the BLACK SQUIRRELS are here to offer an aural respite. Formed in the spring of 2006 by three small-town kids lost in the big city, the band is influenced by the rich tradition of American country music. Although reverence for the past runs deep, this is not a retro act. Black Squirrels meld a modern, literate twist onto the old forms. A premium is placed on strong songs, whether it's a four-to-the-floor barnburner, or a gently swaying waltz.
On June 7, 2009 the band's episode of the long-running (25 years!) River City Folk went out on NPR and XM Satellite's "The Village." The band has played various gigs throughout the first half of 2009, including a tour of Texas, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The band played to over 300 people at the Joslyn Art Museum, and also participated in "Wild About Omaha." Since the release of "Paying For Your Pleasure" in October 2008, the album has been in heavy rotation, including the 1 spot, on UNOMavRadio, the area's only CMJ-reporting station. The band's music has been played on the radio from Florida to Texas to Australia. The album has garnered praise on both sides of the Atlantic.
In 2008 Black Squirrels played not only at local bars, but at Rosenblatt Stadium, Earth Day in Elmwood Park, The Omaha Summer Arts Festival, Mid-American Music Festival, OEA Summer Jam, private parties, and we were one of only four local acts asked by Opera Omaha to turn a poem into a song in conjunction with the premiere of "Blizzard Voices." A song of ours was included on the CD "Christmas for Pine Ridge vol. 1." We were voted one of "Omaha's Top 20 Bands" by The Reader, and we won the 2008 OEA Award for "Best Roots/Folk/Country/Americana/Bluegrass."
KAT comes from a musical family, many of whom are classically trained. She has been singing since she was knee-high-to-a-grasshopper in her hometown of Missouri Valley, IA. She is a hairstylist and one of her clients was John Flansburg of They Might Be Giants.
KATE is an honest-to-goodness farm girl from Tekamah, NE. She not only sings and plays a mean squeezebox, but was an excellent trombonist with the Tekamah-Herman Marching Band. Kate is known throughout town for her work with Bill Hoover and the (locally) legendary Darktown House Band. TRAVIS hails from Tecumseh, OK, where he grew up around old-time and bluegrass music. Travis is a former member of numerous Omaha bands, most notably Darktown House Band, and he spent 3+ years backing pop troubadour Fizzle Like A Flood on bass and guitar.
TIM was a military brat, but considers Millard, NE, to be home. He is a studio owner/engineer at Bassline Studio [Omaha]. And be warned: he will take your money in a poker game. Then show you "the orb."
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