Bright Lights
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| photo by paul dunkley |
New music isn’t hard to find in Santa Barbara, you just have
to look for it. What is hard to find, and not just in SB, is a new refreshing
sound. The Blues and Greys are just that.
When Thom Flowers and Jonathon Miller approached Lindsey Ann
Waldon to lay down some vocals for them, they thought it would be a brief affair.
They realized immediately what a great collaboration they made and decided to
commit. Soon after, they enlisted the help of Joey McDermott and Michael
Million to fill out the sound and hit the road. Thus you have the Blues and
Greys.
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| photo by paul dunkley |
No stranger to Santa Barbara, The Blues and Greys played a
headlining show at SOhO to a large audience deeply invested in the music. Waldon’s
strong, smooth, feminine voice sounded refreshing against the somewhat new-wave
indie rock soundscape. Heavily driven by
melodies and keyboards, The Blues and Greys distinguished themselves from the
common sound of current indie rock by inducing a somewhat dark, but still
upbeat presence. Waldon’s voice remained
the constant as they moved through the much too short arrangement off their EP,
“Bright Lights.”
The Blues and Greys are a band full of much talent and
potential. It has been nice to see the evolution, and see how nicely the band
has melded together. They can definitely see the bright lights ahead of them.