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running the gamut of alt-Americana to cabaret blues

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The Tremors are a veritable two-piece orchestra, based in a blues style but with eclectic musical influences. The Tremors produce a range of musical images through use of string bass — bowed, plucked and slapped — and a variety of guitars plus vocal harmonies. Catch the Tremors in concert and you’ll catch a melody with poignant or humorous lyrics to carry you far beyond the end of the show.
Cory McDaniel is a creative singer, songwriter and guitarist. Born on the high plains surrounded by the Rocky Mountains in the western United States, McDaniel wandered into a love of the blues by traveling. He was first inspired by the Big Band sounds his parents played at home. Later, Paul Butterfield, Oingo Boingo’s Danny Elfman, Tom Waits and Leonard Cohen influenced his songwriting and arranging.  The Tremors provide McDaniel with the perfect canvas to compose. “I try to write blues songs,” he says, “because it squashes me into a smaller format, forces me to simplify the creative output and frames the images with rough edges. And, with two pieces, we can actually perform the songs I write. The funny thing is, while they are always based in the blues, they rarely turn out as traditional blues songs.”
Dale Bohren was born into a talented family of singers. He began playing the string bass in elementary school and excelled in reading classical music through school. As a college student he played various styles to pay the rent — country, jazz, big band and blues. The pursuit of music took him from New Orleans to Los Angeles and back to the Rocky Mountains. Today, Bohren still plays a wide variety of styles but finds the Tremors’ duet of guitar, string bass and harmonic vocals to be most rewarding. “Playing classical music with attention to phrasing, accents and dynamics really prepared me for producing the Tremors’ music. Our music is varied by space, improvisation and melody. Sometimes what we don’t play is as important as what we do play. I can’t imagine a better format for a bass player to be able to contribute musically to a whole composition. But honestly, we’re just having fun.” 

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Cory McDaniel

If you were born in Casper, Wyoming to a tractor-wrangler mom and a dad who made his living carving tombstones; if your playground, (right next door to your house), was the local cemetery and your jungle gym was the ceremonial giant cannon set among the mausoleums; would it be a surprise if you grew up with an appetite for the odd, the imperfect, and the blues?
 
When Cory began playing music there were only three high school bands around town: B.C. and the Cavemen, The Novells, and his band, the Eddies. Of course, none of the members were named Eddie.
 
Using fake IDs to get into clubs (Cory's alter-ego was Rex Thorpe), the Eddies played all over Wyoming and Colorado. Finally several band members including Cory migrated to the west coast where they connected with "Earthquake" Anderson, another Wyoming native (who was also Jesse Colin Young's sometime manager and harmonica player), and formed the still-almost-famous-in-Seattle Butterfat, and Earthquake and the Tremors. The years that followed were, well, hard to follow. What do you say about a guy who let Walt Disney's granddaughter pierce his ear in exchange for a ruby earring? What do you say about a band that drank up all Janis Joplin's tequila backstage before the show? Those were the days?

"IT'S EASY....YOU GET ALL THE FACTS AND YOU MAKE IT RHYME"
A lifetime of music on the road and at home has found Cory performing in some far-flung and wondrous places such as the max security prison and  mental hospital in Ramscheid, Germany. At Mettmann Germany's Bluesweek, Cory and bassist Dale Bohren won the festival's Bruno award, so named because of Mettmann's ancient Neandertal sites. 
 
An inveterate storyteller, Cory's made music out of the equally improbable tales of a baby elephant's jump from a German monorail train, a night spent in an Alaskan hotel in the middle of an honest-to-Betsy old west style shoot-out, and an entrepreneurial prostitute who ran an above board and locally beloved brothel in the town of Lusk Wyoming for 60 years: that story's actually been made into a soon to be released PBS documentary featuring Cory's songs. 

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