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Pop / Rock
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| Descriptive "tags": |
alt-country • indie rock • rock • singer-songwriter • the harrisburg family band • alt-cr • magnolia october • raspy voices • american indie • good band • faves • altcountry • calming • singer • alt country • storytelling
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| Decades Active: |
1990s
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2000s
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Biography
Varnaline is essentially the work of one man - singer-songwriter and guitarist Anders Parker (USA). In fact, Varnaline happened largely by accident, as Parker told Billboard in 1997: ‘I recorded the first album before I had any [label] interest at all. I was writing some things for another project, and some other things for myself, and I discovered that I liked the things I had done for myself much better.’ The resulting songs were picked up by Zero Hour Records and released as a self-titled collection in 1996. In the interim, Parker, who was also a concurrent member of Zero Hour act Space Needle, recruited his brother John Parker and Space Needle’s Jud Ehrbar to complete the line-up of Varnaline for touring purposes. The trio were rewarded with a slot on the 1996 Lollapalooza tour, and then issued a 7-inch single (‘Party Now’) and a four-track home-recorded EP, Man Of Sin. ‘Party Now’ was later voted by Spin magazine as one of...
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