Basic Information
Label: Bossonova Music Records
Members: George Alexander - electric guitars; Leslie Ann Bosson - vocal; Matt Bosson - acoustic guitar, vocal; Mitsuru "Neil" Fukasawa - drums; Frank San Filippo - bass;
The Running Kind
Los Angeles, CA
Country / Americana / Rock
Bio
Borrowing their name from the Merle Haggard tune, the husband and wife team of Matt and Leslie Bosson formed The Running Kind into a band that is the sonic sum of many musical parts. Leslie, who has a love for country music and also studies opera, claims that what the two genres have in common is “You get to tell great stories with a strong vocal line.” Matt, a former member of the Massachusetts punk band Beatrice and the LA rock outfit Lonesome Pie, downshifted a little and challenged himse...
Comments
Wil Forbis:
This Old Girl video is great. I love that tune.
May 04
merle jagger:
Great to see you @ RVN.
Jan 22
Press
“It's ironic that the Running Kind named themselves after the Merle Haggard lament about wanderlust, because the local country-rock band is the very portrait of domestic bliss. Lead singer Leslie Ann Bosson and guitarist/songwriter Matt Bosson are married, and the rest of the group — lead guitarist George Alexander, drummer Neil Fukasawa, bassist Frank San Filippo and pianist Kevin Smith — fit in comfortably like members of an extended family. On the Running Kind's new CD, The Girl for All the World, Leslie Ann's operatic purity and Matt's down-home counterpoint twist together into some nice harmonies, while Alexander lights things up with judicious honky-tonk sparkle. Matt is a pleasantly tuneful writer, but he's more interesting when he gets deeper and darker, exploring the bittersweet contradictions of love and wanderlust on the title track and "Old Girl," which fit in best with the sextet's low-key covers of George Jones' "Life to Go" and Neil Young's "Don't Cry No Tears."”
Artist Stats
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Status
Status:
The Running Kind has a show on 10/29/2011 at 07:00 PM @ Ranch Pa... in Los Angeles, CA http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/64954879 #concert
Blog
Be "old school." Buy a CD.
Jan 14, 2011 at 11:51 PM
Just like a said.
Buy a CD.
Like your parents used to.
Sounds better than the computer.
