Like the Osmonds, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, the Jackson 5, Kings of Leon, The Shaggs, The Muldoons, The Carter Family and The Brady Bunch, Woodman believe that making music can be a family affair. Frank Woodman, songwriter, singer, and rhythm guitar, 22 year old son Derek Woodman on tremolo soaked lead guitar and 20 year old daughter Hillary Woodman with haunting vocals, are Woodman. Registered Nurse and aspiring songwriter, unable to get a band together due to afternoon shift restrictions, recruits his young ones to flesh out his plaintive songs. The experiment worked, with the Woodman voices melding together for some sweet Americana. Songs about childhood joys, lost innocence and stolen car rides, show their love for the American folk song. Joining the Woodman 3 are drummer %^&*( and bassist Adam Fuller. This swinging and powerful rhythm section add an adventurous psychedelic edge that is ready for the stage. With dozens of shows around their beloved Detroit already played, and a brand new 7-inch single under their belts, Woodman are ready to melt faces!
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This is the art work for our new 7-inch single. A:side Wide Eyes of Brandon. B:side You've Lost Your Way. Recorded and Mixed by Eddie"Albini" Gillis at his home studio in Flat Rock, mastered by Dave Feeney at Tempermill Studios in Ferndale and Pressed to vinyl at Archer Pressing in Detroit. Art work by our good friend Rob Veresh and put out in cooperation with Loco Gnosis Productions. If you'd like one, drop us a line and for 5 clams we'll send you one. Cheers!
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Found A Way:
Woodman
jeff milo
Frank Woodman's pink bicycle, bendy-straws around its spokes, has a $5 scuffed guitar in its flower basket and a mini-amp clamped on his belt-loop.
We're riding around looking for some lunch — I ask him to play "Smoke on the Water" and he, beaming a smile through his orange pirate beard, happily obliges.
A registered nurse, kind soul and father, he leads the eclectic folk-rock group called Woodman with his son Derek on lead guitar and daughter Hillary on vocals, (both exceptionally capable for 18 and 16-years-old respectively). Alongside them is the burgeoning and able rhythm section of Adam Fuller (bass) and Sam Sequin (drums).
A long-time Detroit rock fan fixture, he and his wife of 20 years, Shelly, have been going to local shows, (ya know . Rocket 455, The White Stripes, etc.) for more than 10 years. "I need to get a band," he'd always say to Shelly while in the crowd, having taught himself guitar through rigorous studying of Cobain's fingers on the TV screen as MTV looped Nirvana Unplugged ceaselessly after his death.
Since no local musicians were compatible with his afternoon work schedule … well … he needed a band … "So he made one," Shelly quips.
With only two shows spread between '05 and '06, these elegiac troubadours of cathartic, freewheeling Americana anthems, have been playing their folkin' heads off in '07 with a slew of shows and a recently recorded EP. Time is split between Hillary's high school, Derek's U of M tenure, Adam's aspiring filmmaking and Sam's beauty school attendance, but they make the most of it — sometimes rehearsing at 3 o'clock in the morning.
Flavors of grunge, blues, British Invasion, Hendrix, Young and Brendan Benson permeate Woodman's sound, which is atmospheric but earthy, heartbreaking but still believing in love. | RDWWoodman on Fox 2 News
