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  • Genre: Acoustic / Indie / Roots Music

    Location Sonoma County, California, Un

    Profile Views: 113280

    Last Login: 5/3/2012

    Member Since 3/21/2006

    Website coyotegrace.com

    Record Label Mile After Mile Records

    Type of Label Unsigned

  • Bio

    If you’d like to watch from a front-row seat as roots music reinvents itself, look no further than Coyote Grace. At once both radically progressive and unashamedly nostalgic, the trio is at the forefront of a growing movement to redefine the meanings of “roots” and “tradition.” “Coyote Grace plays with the heart of traditional country and Americana music, but tells their stories with a bold twist,” says the Indigo Girls’ Amy Ray. “They write heartwrenching melodies and make such textured harmonies that I find myself enraptured and taken by their timelessness of song.” Armed with a bevy of acoustic instruments from guitar and upright bass to banjo, mandolin, fiddle, and accordion, Coyote Grace’s Joe Stevens, Ingrid Elizabeth and Michael Connolly fill theater, club, and festival stages with a wash of sound seemingly far too expansive for three musicians, mixing bluegrass and blues, soul and Southern twang into a unique sound that hovers just beyond the edge of ‘familiar.’ The sultry trio combines virtuosic musicianship combined with a humble, warm stage presence, all stemming from a history of self-invention – and re-invention. “Playing roots music doesn’t simply mean imitating old traditions,” says multi- instrumentalist Michael Connolly. “All of us have a strong sense of wanting to hold onto the past, to tradition – while still being unburdened enough to move forward.” This is perhaps no more evident than in the case of guitarist and transman Joe Stevens, whose gender transition resolved a lifetime of dissonance between being raised as female while identifying as male. Not without cost, Joe’s transition closed some doors while opening many others, and significantly informs his songwriting and performance. Meanwhile, Ingrid Elizabeth, the self-proclaimed “pink sheep” of her small Ohio hometown, and Memphis-born Michael Connolly both carry the twang and soul of their Middle America roots while maintaining decidedly Left Coast values. Coyote Grace’s rise to national prominence comes from a decidedly humble origin – beginning as a Seattle-based duo in 2004, Ingrid Elizabeth and Joe Stevens founded the band as street performers outside of Seattle’s Pike Place Market, using their busking proceeds to fund their first studio album, Boxes and Bags, which is now in its sixth pressing, and accompanied at the merch table by three other albums: The Harvey Tour, Buck Naked, and Ear To the Ground, which in February of 2011 reached #4 on the Roots Music Report’s Folk charts -- the highest charting independent album at the time. The radio airplay itself comes on the heels of a highly successful touring season in 2010, during which Coyote Grace performed three separate tours opening for and playing alongside the Indigo Girls. Audience response was immediate and enthusiastic, with the group breaking the Indigo Girls’ tour records for album sales by an opening band. Coyote Grace has also performed with Girlyman, Melissa Ferrick, Chris Pureka, and Lowen & Navarro. “There's a yearning, freight-train-hopping, propulsive energy to many of [Coyote Grace]’s songs that suggests not only an indie-band road tour, but the road to one's true identity, a destination on a map still being written. These youthful travelers depend on the kindness of strangers and of lovers, and on their journey they've experienced enough joy and heartbreak to last a lifetime.” Sylvia Sukop – Huffington Post

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    Joe Stevens, Ingrid Elizabeth, & Michael Connolly .. .. BUCK NAKED - EP (2010) ........<a href='http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/coyotegrace'

  • Influences

    Indigo Girls, The Weepies, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Kelly Joe Phelps, Bob Dylan, Patty Griffin, Greg Brown, Lori McKenna, Ben Harper, Tracy Chapman, Po' Girl, Nick Drake, The Eagles, Tom Petty, Ani DiFranco, Tori Amos, Be Good Tanyas, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dixie Chicks, Mike & Amy Finders Band, Joe Purdy, Erin McKeown, Mason Jennings, and many more to come. .. .. Living the dream... .. .. .. .. .. .. .. June 29, 2008 @ Woodland Park Zoo. Seattle, WA.

  • Sounds Like

    .. .. .. .. .. .. "We Are The Same" by Eric Himan (w/Coyote Grace) @ The Ritual Cafe in Des Moines, IA!! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. "Heart Beat" by Melissa Ferrick (w/Coyote Grace) @ Schuba's in Chicago, IL .. .. .. .. .. .. .. "Wagon Wheel" (by Old Crow Medicine Show) @ El Rio in San Francisco, CA -- Special ELECTION version!! .. .. .. .. .. .. .. "Forever's Song" @ Blend in Chapel Hill, NC .. .......... .. .. .. .. .... .. "Summertime (Girls Like Me)" @ Dolores Park Cafe in San Francisco, CA .. .. .. .. .. ..

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Girl meets Girl. Girl becomes Boy. Girl and Boy become a band.
Meet COYOTE GRACE.

If you want a lesson in organic chemistry, take notes as you watch the sparks fly between the acoustic downhome duo, COYOTE GRACE. This folktastic phenomenon is the result of combining one guitarist Joe Stevens, a transman from Northern California, with one upright bassist Ingrid Elizabeth, a sassy femme originally hailing from the hills of Southeastern Ohio. Together, they capture the eyes and the hearts of live audiences nationwide with their bluesy folkgrass sound, sweet harmonies, poignant songwriting, and mid-song dance moves.

Coyote Grace has shared the stage with such folk icons as Indigo Girls, Melissa Ferrick, Cris Williamson, and Lowen & Navarro. They can also be found wooing the crowds at colleges, festivals, conferences, coffeehouses, pubs, house concerts, farmers markets, and community centers alike. Although they spend most of the year on the road, the duo now resides in Sonoma County, California.

Spring 2009 brings the release of Ear to the Ground, the duo's long-awaited sophomore studio album. In this latest evolution of their unique Americana/roots sound, Coyote Grace displays a striking musical maturation from their debut effort, filling out the duo's sound with guest musicians on fiddle, mandolin, guitar, keys, and drums. Ingrid Elizabeth shows a stronger songwriting & vocal presence, while Joe Stevens continues to wear his heart on his sleeve with his emotionally charged, raw lyrics. The album's mood ebbs and flows, winding from a sparse banjo/vocal duet, through a slow bluegrass ballad, to blues-driven full band sound to swinging country fiddle tune to pensive piano-kissed lullabye -- a soundscape as tangible as the duo's newfound home in the rolling hills of Sonoma County.

The two met while living in Seattle, and have been performing as a duo since December 2004, sharing the stage with bluegrass, old-time, folk rock, jazz, and cabarets alike. Coyote Grace spent the entire year of 2007 touring the country in their 1978 Chevy RV (Harvey), promoting their debut studio album, Boxes & Bags. Aptly titled, the album pays homage to the trademarks of their nomadic troubadour lifestyle, featuring 12 original tracks of acoustic alt-folk sounds, weaving fabrics of upbeat folkgrass, front-porch blues, lovesick serenades, broody funk, and freight train folk rock into a curious tapestry conveying themes of transformation, introspection, and the impermanence of identity.

During their travels, the troubador pair became a trio when they invited Tucson-based songwriter/guitarist Courtney Robbins to join the tour. To commemorate their year on the road, they released The Harvey Tour, a collection of live recordings, in Summer 2008. The live album features new original songs from Robbins, Stevens, & Elizabeth, as well as old favorites from each of their debut studio albums, with a handful of fun cover tunes for a true taste of the live show experience. All albums are available on their website: www.coyotegrace.com

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Member Since:

March 21, 2006

Members:

Coyote Joe Stevens & Ingrid Elizabeth (Miss Amazing Grace)

BUCK NAKED - EP (2010)

Influences:

Indigo Girls, The Weepies, James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Kelly Joe Phelps, Bob Dylan, Patty Griffin, Greg Brown, Lori McKenna, Ben Harper, Tracy Chapman, Po' Girl, Nick Drake, The Eagles, Tom Petty, Ani DiFranco, Tori Amos, Be Good Tanyas, Old Crow Medicine Show, Dixie Chicks, Mike & Amy Finders Band, Joe Purdy, Erin McKeown, Mason Jennings, and many more to come.

Living the dream...

June 29, 2008 @ Woodland Park Zoo. Seattle, WA.

Sounds Like:


"We Are The Same" by Eric Himan (w/Coyote Grace) @ The Ritual Cafe in Des Moines, IA!!

"Heart Beat" by Melissa Ferrick (w/Coyote Grace) @ Schuba's in Chicago, IL

"Wagon Wheel" (by Old Crow Medicine Show) @ El Rio in San Francisco, CA -- Special ELECTION version!!

"Forever's Song" @ Blend in Chapel Hill, NC
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"Summertime (Girls Like Me)" @ Dolores Park Cafe in San Francisco, CA

Record Label:

Mile After Mile Records

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