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" Let&amp;#039;s be honest. With a band name like Aunt Martha you&amp;#039;re not quite sure what to expect. Yes, we all have our own versions of a dear old Aunt Martha who bakes the best pie for thanksgiving and gives a birthday gift you just cant use. But, the pressing question still remains: does this gal play music? Upon further investigation of the Aunt Martha in question, we were pleasantly surprised to find that today&amp;#039;s incarnation is actually a group of three, cute, twenty-something guys who can in fact play music...and well! Tim, Garrett and Brian, the trio formally referred to as Aunt Martha have been causing quite a stir and then some. Fresh off their first full U.S. tour, these boys are churning out a brand of music which is seriously lacking in today&amp;#039;s mainstream. Garnering comparisons to the always moving and incredible Ray Lamontagne, Tim&amp;#039;s soulful yet gritty vocals are wise beyond their years. If you didn&amp;#039;t know the boys were in their twenties, you&amp;#039;d think these tunes were written by men who had already lived a full life and then some. But it&amp;#039;s not just the old-soul vocals and weighty song themes that characterize Aunt Martha. Even the band will admit that it&amp;#039;s their unique instrumentation and set up which enriches their sound. &amp;quot;I play the guitar and do most of the singing,&amp;quot; says Tim. &amp;quot;Garrett plays the drums and sings and Brian will switch between the violin or the bass. It&amp;#039;s cool because when Brian plays the violin we have a particularly interesting sound. There are not too many bands with acoustic guitar, violin and drums.&amp;quot; (For the record, we looked into this and could only find a small handful!) With all the right pieces seemingly in place, it felt only natural to pose the classic question: so, where&amp;#039;s the record deal? In their response, the band seemed as cool, as calm and as collected as their music. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re happy in any situation that allows us to play music for a living,&amp;quot; explains Tim. &amp;quot;Whether that&amp;#039;s no label, and indie label or a major, it&amp;#039;s all great to us. This is the first time that the band has paid our bills so the goal is to keep going as long as we can. Garrett was in law school, so if the band doesn&amp;#039;t work out we&amp;#039;re hoping he&amp;#039;ll go back, become a lawyer, make a ton of money and then let us live in his garage. Or his basement. Either way, he&amp;#039;s the backup plan.&amp;quot; Well, with full length album already available on iTunes, and a new EP release date just around the corner, if these boys keep doing what they&amp;#039;re doing we&amp;#039;d bet our entire law school tuition check that there&amp;#039;s no backup plan needed.  -Jenna Hally Rubenstein  Like what you read? Check out Aunt Martha on Myspace or &amp;quot;like&amp;quot; them on Facebook! Let us know what you think in the comments section below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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