Leslie & The Badgers

"There are words the dead say
and words the dead sing,
and my life will be through
fore they mean anything" - Leslie and The Badgers c. 1972

We are Leslie and the Badgers and we formed in Los Angeles....

"Canyon Country Bands are as common as brush fires in LA but the thing that separates this combo apart is the voice of the titular Leslie...a rounded shining thing that evokes Patsy Cline¬πs sass and sorrow in one swoop." - LA Times

"Leslie & the Badgers are quietly turning into one of the city's best...what makes the songs magical is the way Stevens spruces up the retro country-pop settings with clear-eyed and thoughtfully incisive lyrics." - LA Weekly

"As the heart of its expressive ability, Leslie Stevens' voice is the picture of gorgeous restraint, a refined mixture of urbane sophistication and genuine country honey...radiant with style and intellect...her singing is more about movement than volume, and it's what makes it an enduring marvel." Flagpole Magazine

"A fresh, ear-pleasing sound that's attracted a growing Eastside following...'Los Angeles' and pleading 'Winter Fugue' serve notice Stevens is a writer to watch." - Pasadena Weekly

"Seasoned as the weather itself...like a gypsy caravan picking up musicians and fans along the way...real enough to steal one¬πs heart away." - LA Record

"Roomful Of Smoke is an unexpected pleasure and a record that fans of Whiskeytown and Neko Case will find as comfortable as a well-traveled pair of boots...too many standout tracks to list...'Los Angeles,' sounds like it was inadvertently left off Case's Canadian Amp EP, while 'My Tears Are Wasted On You' will likely rocket up the country charts as soon as some savvy producer convinces one of Nashville's cookie-cutter starlets to warble her way through it." - My Old Kentucky Blog

"Unfortunately No Depression just called it quits, because if there ever was a band that magazine was going to break, this is it." - The Portland Mercury

"...led by adorable, sweet-toned singer-songwriter Leslie Stevens whose pipes and presence recall such honest and heartfelt vocalists as Emmylou Harris, Iris DeMent and Alison Krauss, with a touch of Patsy Cline's guilelessness...literate, emotionally-accessible, sometimes whimsical and always heartfelt lyrics...." - MOG dot com

Greenstring Farm Band

The Green String Farm Band makes pesticide free music. No overdubs, no edits, RAW. Our belief is that the creation of music, like conventional farming, has become overproduced, poisoned by technological processes and ignores where we have come from. Sustainable farming is not new, it has just been rediscovered - and our music is the same. We're not doing anything new, we're just reminding people of our American musical history and folding in our unique Sonoma County perspective. The Green String Farm Band was born on a single day of live recording in the old singe room school house on the farm itself. We play original and traditional material with the grand plan of trying to make people happy. The music is to be enjoyed on the back porch, in the living room, with friend and callused hands with drink and home cooked food. It is rough, real and to be sung out loud together.