From the first time he hit the stage back in the 90's as the lead singer for the Bay Area's roots n' blues flavored band The Loved Ones who were on HighTone Records , to his melodic vocals intertwining with the hybrid electronica/funk music of Honeycut who were on DJ Shadow ' s hip-hop collective Quannum Projects , to the soft-pop stylings he is crafting today as a solo artist, Bart Davenport has traversed a varied musical landscape over the years, cultivating his own distinctive vocal style along the way. " I’m like a thrift store vintage artist in the sense that I like taking things from the past and put them in the context of a new song. I don’t want to be a retro purist, I just like to borrow when it seems like they would be fun to use. I’m a purist in art but I’m not a purist in period music. It’s just that it’s a fine line. I will literally write a chord progression that sounds like Bert Bacharach and ...
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