The Long Winters

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The Long Winters is an American indie rock band based in Seattle, USA.

Singer-songwriter John Roderick was born in Seattle, Washington, and later moved to in Anchorage, Alaska while in elementary school. He later returned to Seattle, and formed the Bun Family Players and the Western State Hurricanes. Following the collapse of the latter, he acted as touring keyboardist for Harvey Danger.

In 2001 Harvey Danger singer/songwriter Sean Nelson suggested that he and Roderick record an album —half of the songs penned by John, and the other half by Sean. Death Cab for Cutie band member Chris Walla had recently opened up the Hall of Justice studio in Seattle, and agreed to help them record.

John recruited Joe Bass of Sky Cries Mary and Brian Young of Fountains of Wayne to flesh out several of the songs, and gradually the album evolved to feature only John’s songs. After several months, The Worst You Can Do Is Harm was finished.
John traveled to New York, where he played solo shows and quickly began to pen new songs —several of which would eventually be included on the Long Winters’ second album, When I Pretend to Fall.

While there he was contacted by Barsuk Records —the label that would release The Worst You Can Do Is Harm – who made it clear they wanted John to tour to promote the release. He traveled back to Seattle, and was joined by Chris Caniglia, former Western States Hurricanes drummer Michael Shilling and Eric Corson on bass. Thus, The Long Winters were born.
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