Grievous Angel features award-winning musicians that have successfully made their living traveling down these highways and byways. Roscoe has been a fixture on the Michigan band scene for a very long time, and is known for his innovative, melodic guitar style and his flawless sense of tone. He is also a well-respected recording engineer, with clients that include Sponge, Jill Jack and the Orbitsuns.  Nolan Mendenhall (Phil Ochs, Joan Baez, Wilson Pickett, The Supremes, Joe Tex, Jackie Wilson, … and the list goes on…) has played with just about every Motown and R & B great, won Producer of the Year Awards (Detroit Music Awards) and zigzagged from folk to reggae to jazz and back again, bringing all of that to the band as a bass man’s bass man and songwriter. Billy Brandt, whose alt-country-Americana-rock roots go deep, has been a mainstay of exceptional local music through his Drum Dancer Records.

The band has jelled in this configuration, and it shows in their live performances. None of these guys are slouches when it comes to chops, and after playing together constantly for almost two years, it’s – seamless. Effortless. They toss off songs with a casual ease and grace that shows you just how much they are a part of the music; all the channels are open, and everything just flows. They explore genres and emotions with equal parts honesty, craft, and aplomb, with that subtle joy that comes from doing and being what you are meant to be and do.. They’ve no choice in the matter; they’re lifers, and they know it. And you know, that’s all right…

Grievous Angel hook into the melting-pot that is America and shape their own unique music as they gleefully toss folk, country, Americana, jazz, acid, swamp – and anything else that’s handy at the moment – into the blender. The band's eclectic tastes and backgrounds lead them to explore all the nuances, all the hidden springs of inspiration that make up the river of song, with stories and themes that resonate with Everyman.