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  • Active: 2000s
  • Genres: Rock
  • Instrument: Vocals, Guitar (Acoustic), Bass
  • Representative Albums: "Hymns for the Hopeless," "Song of the Blackbird," "Ashes to Dust"

Biography

With a voice that sounds like the reincarnation of an old gospel preacher from the 1920s and a fascination with sin, death, and redemption to match, William Elliott Whitmore is one of the most unique artists to emerge on the Americana scene in years. The son of a farmer and raised on a horse farm on the banks of the Mississippi River outside of Keokuk, IA, Whitmore's songs have a stark universality that is sketched out with minimal instrumentation, usually just a banjo or guitar and a smattering of percussion. Whitmore is rumored to have gotten his start in the music business by working as a roadie for Iowa hardcore band Ten Grand, famous for their fast and furious 20-minute sets, and Whitmore frequently stepped in with his songs to fill out the time. His voice is the one Tom Waits has been after for years (imagine a cross between Captain Beefheart and Dock Boggs), and his folk- and blues-inflected songs feel like they've been left out in the rain for months, weathered and tightened to the snapping point. Whitmore released Hymns for the Hopeless on Southern in 2003, followed by Ashes to Dust, also on Southern, in 2005. Whitmore appeared on the 2006 compilation CD/DVD entitled Let's Be Active, along with two other artists. In 2006 he released a third album on Southern, the characteristically stark Song of the Blackbird. Animals in the Dark followed in 2009. ~ Steve Leggett, All Music Guide
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William Elliott Whitmore

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Background information
Birth name William Elliott Whitmore
Born 1978
in Iowa, USA
Genres Alternative country
Folk music
Blues
Occupations Vocalist, Songwriter, Musician
Instruments Vocals, Guitar, Banjo
Years active 1999 – present
Labels ANTI-
Website williamelliottwhitmore.com

William Elliott Whitmore, born in 1978, is a deep-blues vocalist and musician from Lee County, Iowa. He has recorded a number of albums released on Southern Records. His act mostly consists of playing the banjo or guitar while singing, though on occasion he performs a cappella. While he has earned much acclaim from the folk, blues and alt-country communities he is also rooted in the hardcore punk community. He found a close friendship in the members of Ten Grand[citation needed] with whom he traveled and opened for on many tours.

Whitmore has toured with City and Colour, The Pogues, Murder By Death, Clutch, Lucero, Converge, Ten Grand and Red Sparowes, Frontier Ruckus, among many others.

Whitmore's 2009 release, Animals in the Dark, reached #50 on the Billboard Heatseekers chart.[1]

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Discography

Albums

  • Animals in the Dark (February 17, 2009[2])
  • Song of the Blackbird (2006)
  • Ashes to Dust (2005)
  • Hymns for the Hopeless (2003)
  • Calendar Club of Danger and Fun (2001)
  • The Jarret Mitchell demo album (1999)

Others

  • 7" Split (MBD & WEW), Split with Murder by Death (November 2008)
  • Hallways of Always with Jenny Hoyston of Erase Errata, CD (2006)
  • When the Cat Returns the Mice are Fucked, CD V/A (2006)
  • The Day the End Finally Came, 7" (2004)
  • Latitudes' EP (2005[3])
  • No Laws: Keep the Fuzz off my Buzz 12" (Modern Radio Records, ???) with Paradise Island, Let's Be Active, and ft(the shadow government)
  • The Red Meat Sessions demo album (???)[citation needed]
  • The Great White Plains demo album (???)[citation needed]

References

  1. ^ Billboard, Allmusic
  2. ^ "William Elliott Whitmore Set to Release Animals In The Dark February 17th, 2009" (Web). anti.com. October 21, 2008. http://www.anti.com/news/index/562/William_Elliott_Whitmore_Set_to_Release_Animals_In_The_Dark_February_17th_2009. Retrieved November 7, 2008. 
  3. ^ Records, Southern (2006). "SOUTHERN". http://www.southern.com/southern/band/WILEW/21503.php. Retrieved 2007-04-06. 

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