There is a fertile range of musical moments that lays the foundation for the powerful, driving rock made by this band of four called
Dead Country. Nick Long, singer, guitarist and California native, felt the tug toward music at an early age and gravitating toward the music of Jawbreaker, Fugazi, Nirvana and Rites of Spring, the sound that forms
Dead Country’s original, hard-hitting rock holds traces of those influences, but only as a jumping off point.
Dead Country came together in late 2008 after Nick returned from Switzerland where he’d been living. “I didn’t think twice about coming back to Los Angeles to start a band. It made complete sense to me,” he says about the pulling together of guitarist Jonny Black, whom he...
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