The Lindells
When JJ Cale goes dancing across the floor during your sound check, you know you’re doing it right; one more reason for the Lindells’ well deserved reputation for making music that’s “engaging, wide-ranging and diversified”. It's inspired by the deep, high mountains
and vast, lonely deserts of the American West. Their songs get inside you and dance down into your dreams - you just might wake with one of their songs in your head!
With standout songwriting and their “signature sound”, the Lindells (rhymes with bell) burn through and defy all kinds of musical boundaries with music that's fierce and stunning. Based on breathtaking vocal harmonies and amazing, intuitive playing, the Lindells’ music grooves with their own brand of psychedelic mountain folk and rock - it's intimate, supple and sultry, with a definitive underlying hard-earned grit.
The magic of the Lindell's live performances comes from a celebration of love and life, a rare meeting of musical minds that often transcends this earthly plane. Their song craft reveals an essential understanding of people and place through visionary lyrics and brilliant melody. As a duo, or with their band, the Lindells' music is captivating, filled with high energy and fun, an interplay of shadow and light.
Chris Lindell plays an unbelievable atmospheric blend of fiery acoustic and electric guitar that combines rhythm and lead into one singular, memorable style. A rare, urgent style defined by a powerful work ethic that just doesn't stop. Kim Lindell swings the backbeat with the delicate sound of thundering, electric bass – on a semi-hollow body beauty dubbed "Tiger Rose". Add the rock steady, Louisiana shuffle of Peter Ortego on drums and percussion, the classic western sound of Don Raney on pedal steel and the Lindells sound moves out - way out - beyond true blue cosmic country and desert surf.
In the finest songwriting traditions of American music, the Lindells songs are vibrant and spare. Writing and singing together since they were kids in high school, Kim and Chris Lindell explore the deep intensity of life lived fully, often at the edge - whether that edge is 3000 feet up a sheer cliff, 14,000 feet high on a winter cloaked mountain, wandering the canyons of the Four Corners, homesteading the land, or pushing the envelope of music.
The Lindells have a diverse and dedicated group of fans. People love their sound - because the Lindells' music gathers the rhythms of earth and sky, and transports you to a golden sunshine daydream, tumbling through a raging river of sound, thunderstorm fire and snowy moonlight reverie. Whatever the weather, this is real music – as real as the earth beneath your feet.
Like the southwest Colorado high country they call home, the Lindells' music blends lush, thriving, beauty and crazy, rolling, dust in your eye desolation, rising up from the far blue horizon, fusing the thin line of madness, sanity, love and lawlessness, good times and long days of hard work. It comes from outrunning lightning, surfing talus fields and transcending the long and twisted mile.
The Lindells helped restore water in California's controversial Owen's River Gorge when they were invited to play at the Mono Lake Benefit Concert back in the early '90's. The Lindells played the infamous 69th birthday party for Warren "Batso" Harding (a pioneer of Yosemite rock climbing) in the Eastern High Sierra. They thrilled crowds at Telluride Bluegrass Festival 1999 as finalists during the band competition.
Betty Cantor-Jackson and Bob Matthews (Grateful Dead recording legends) invited the Lindells to play the 2006 Grateful Fest at Nelson Ledges, Ohio. Betty also contributed her beautiful, signature sound to songs on the Lindells' latest cd, "Event Horizon", a folk based duo recording of incredible original music with an exceptional cover of “Last Lonely Eagle” of New Riders of the Purple Sage fame.
Starting with their original song “Harvest” from their 1997 record “Roam”, through their EP "the Barefoot Sessions", and now with "Event Horizon", the Lindell's songs receive regular airplay on Four Corner's radio such as KSUT, KDUR, KOTO, KSJD, KTAO, KZMU and others. Kim and Chris Lindell have also played many engaging live broadcast, in-studio performances in support of public radio.
Having shared the stage with various artists including their hero JJ Cale, Arlo and Sarah Lee Guthrie, Robert Earl Keen, Creedence Clearwater Revisited, Rusted Root, Dark Star Orchestra, Donna Jean & the Tricksters, David Gans, Natalie MacMaster, Laura Love and many more, the Lindells’ music shines strong and bright. For your next road trip, get the Lindells' music - it rolls on down that long and winding road, loose-limbed, through sage and sand, hot nights and honky-tonks to the mountains’ cool, clear light of day…