ross and jason grew up around lots of classic country and country-rock, but wound up in the '90s listening to lots of hardcore and emo. they began red cloud in 2002 as a one-off combo playing velvet underground covers in the style of bruce springsteen. from there, we found andrew (also of bad luck city) and jeremy (our first bassist) and wrote a bunch of songs. we learned to lose our loathing of guitar solos. we recorded a self-titled album with the assistance of kerry mcdonald (christie front drive) and eric allen (the apples in stereo). we tried to bring a lot of elements together: neil young, the collected works of michael gira, low, lungfish, hank williams, nick cave, otis redding, slint, uncle tupelo, old SST bands, old dischord bands, etc. the next couple years are a jumble: we toured with ghost buffalo and planes mistaken for stars, and released a live EP, a studio EP called dragonland (recorded by jeff suther of bright channel), and had a song on the PS2 comp. jeremy left in 2005 and neil (now of planes mistaken for stars and git some) came aboard. things got heavier and weirder, in a good way (at least to us). we opened for lots of bands we like such as devendra banhart, richard buckner, i can lick any sonfobitch in the house, canyon, magnolia electric co, jerk with a bomb (precursor to black mountain), exene cervenka, lucero, and others. in january of 2006, we crashed our van while on tour with san diego's the north atlantic. we lived. after a long break, we came back with a split EP with big timber in december of 2006. we're working in a new album even as we speak. we're not in this band to be cool, to pretend to be cool, to get our asses kissed, or to kiss anyone else's. we want to write songs and share them. fuck status, competition, and other such non-rock'n'roll crap. we don't have the patience for anything except music. started playing in 2002. released a self-titled full-length, a live EP, the dragonland EP, and a split EP with big timber. neil is also in planes mistaken for stars. andrew is also in bad luck city. we are not a country band. Band consists of: ross etherton, andrew warner, neil keener, jason heller Guitar sounds like neil young, lungfish, gary gygax Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.