EST. 1946
Amanda's Dead Mother
Amanda's Dead Mother came up out of a town with one stoplight and not much else. The sound is straight indie alt-pop rock, the kind that forgave itself somewhere along the way and decided to just be pretty about it. Dave McCoy fronts the thing and writes most of it, and the fellas fill in the rest. The debut EP grew into the album One-Light Town, eleven songs about being the odd kid in a place where everybody knows your truck. They cut a holiday record one December in ugly sweaters. Dave swears the band photo on the back of One-Light Town has a fifth man standing at the edge of the porch, and nobody on the label can name him. We sent it to print anyway.
Writes most of it. Keeps a tackle box of guitar picks he never opens.
Runs the hardware store on Main when he is not on the road.
Plays the same four-string his daddy left him. The strings have never once needed changing.
Counts off every song in Spanish for reasons he will not explain.