WV Sound
Keeping a beat in the Mountain State
Spring 2012
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04/04/12Hear the Sounds of Folk and Jazz in KingwoodKingwood native Morgan Kasprowicz moved to Nashville when she graduated high school to attend Belmont University and pursue her degree in commercial voice with an emphasis in the music business. She found herself smitten with the music scene in Nashville and has been there ever since. Growing up with a mom who sings, Morgan was inspired by music from a very young age. She has been studying voice since she was 11. Although she always loved music, Morgan’s passion really bloomed when she attended the Governor’s School for the Arts as a sophomore in high school. “After that, I really knew it was absolutely what I wanted to do,” she says. Morgan classifies her music in the genre of folk/jazz/pop. She grew up in a household that listened to a lot of... Posted at 07:16 AM Comments: 1 |
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03/28/12Stompin' with The Wild RumpusFor Fayetteville-based “stompgrass” band The Wild Rumpus, creating a unique style of music is simple. “Throw a little of everything in there. Whatever comes out is what it is,” says guitarist and banjo player Alan Sizemore. The trio formed four years ago as a merger between seasoned artists, and Alan describes the group’s style as a melting pot for bluegrass, punk, rock and roll, and other influences. “Some people consider us a bluegrass group, but we’re really not. We just play music,” Alan says. “We’re a West Virginia band, and we play what we’ve always heard, what we grew up on.” The band’s newest album, the 304, was released on The Alternate Root records. The band books shows regularly across... Posted at 07:11 AM Comments: 2 |
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03/21/12The Journey of TeamMateScott Simons and Dani Buncher take their music on the road, with stops to their old stomping grounds. Posted at 08:22 AM Comments: 2 |
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03/14/12Karma to Burn hits the ‘country roads’Morgantown-based trio Karma to Burn is an instrumental rock force to be reckoned with. Since the band’s inception in the ’90s, guitarist William Mecum, bassist Rich Mullins, and drummer Rob Oswald have built a national and international fan base with their fierce, driving rock and metal-infused, vocal-free songs. Though they disbanded in 2002 and went on a seven-year hiatus, Karma to Burn has picked up right where it left off. The band has been touring relentlessly since reuniting in 2009. Karma to Burn remains an uncompromising trio when it comes to their hard-hitting, instrumental sound, though they have experimented with some vocals by Year Long Disaster’s Daniel Davies. Davies appeared on some of the songs on 2010’s Appalachian Incantation and... Posted at 08:07 AM Comments |
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02/22/12The Greens Give Life to the BluesHailing from Parkersburg but currently based in Morgantown, The Greens strike a chord with fans across the state. The band has spent a decade crafting its sound since forming in 2002. Founding members Andy Tuck and Nathan Yoke met while working in Parkersburg. “The reason we called ourselves The Greens is because while our songs and chord progressions are all blues-based, we were doing original music,” Andy says. “It wasn’t necessarily the blues. It became The Greens.” Drummer Nathan Yoke, bass player Ben Sweeney, and lead vocalist and guitarist Andy Tuck make up the band. The group released two albums last year in a session with Mark Poole’s Zone 8 Recording Studio in Morgantown. The band released Songs for People, a collection of hits the... Posted at 07:05 AM Comments: 2 |
