The Grizzly Owls

The Grizzly Owls were inspired by their grandparents' journey from Oklahoma to Bakersfield, California during the Dust Bowl migration. Keeping in tradition with their roots, The Grizzly Owls looked to country legends such as Buck Owens and Merle Haggard in addition to writers Raymond Carver and Henry David Thoreau, spaghetti westerns of the 1960's and French new-wave films of Jean-Luc Godard as influences. As a married couple, Joseph and Jenny Andreotti made music together for seven years before recording their debut, By Night On My Bed. Jenny's smoky vocals give depth and texture to Joseph's Southern style guitars and electro-pop beats. Raymond Richards (Frankel, Mojave 3) contributed pedal steel and vibraphone while mixing and mastering what's come to be a whimsical record full of tales about death, lust, love, and obsession.