
The Littles play a swampy mix of rock, country and Blues, influenced by The Band, and all the masters of country and rock. Intelligent, witty original tunes, with the telecaster and fiddle presiding over the old faithful D28 Martin acoustic and stand up bass and drums. What else is there?
The Littles are :Joe Stanton
plays acoustic guitar and is the lead singer and songwriter for the band.
Simon Paradis was born in Montreal Quebec; Holding a music degree from Concordia University Fine Arts program, he studied recording at Fanshawe college in London Ontario as well as playing with numerous bands of many styles including Allan Fraser and Sue Leonard. Gerry Millar is originally from Rossland B.C., where he started out playing R&B in Kootenay clubs with The Covers, and country with Tom T.J. Jones. Gerry went on to study the double bass with David Brown, the principal bassist with the CBC orchestra, and has performed with The Pacific Chamber orchestra, Baroque in Blue. Tom Neville's
playing offers up a wide variety of musical tastes; folk, celtic, blues, popular, jazz, country and ethnic flavours. Jay Johnson started playing drums in the 1980's with new wave underdogs The Bonus Boys and Maurice and the Clichés. Through the 90's he hitched his talents to Billy Cowsill and The Blue Shadows. After touring, Johnson put down his sticks to study sculpture at the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. Jay now performs with Herald Nix as well as The Precious littles |
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