Biography Wikipedia
Group Members: Mike Wilhelm, Mike Wilhelm, Roy Loney and the Phantom Movers, Roy Loney And The Longshots, Jack Johnson and Friends, Chris Wilson, Chris Wilson and Friends, Jack Johnson, Roy Loney
Albums
eMusic Features
Six Degrees of Kings of Leon’s Aha Shake Heartbreak
By Yancey Strickler, eMusic Contributor
It used to be easier to pretend that an album was its own perfectly self-contained artifact. The great records certainly feel that way. But albums are more permeable than solid, their motivations, executions and inspirations informed by, and often stolen from, their peers and forbearers. It all sounds awfully formal, but it's not. It's the very nature of music — of art, even. The Six Degrees features examine the relationships between classic records and five… more »
A Tale of Two Cults: the Flamin’ Groovies and Spirit
By Lenny Kaye, eMusic Contributor
Two old faves recently surfaced on eMusic, and I must say it's been a pleasure to renew their acquaintance. Both bands grew up in the California '60s, polar opposites from southern El and northern Es, and were as much reaction to their hometowns as representative. Each had a cultish lifeline that has served to burnish their reputation since an early seventies heyday, and both made music of a heightened musical ideal and purity. Spirit's first album… more »