Aubrey Caudill

1. Your name?
Aubrey, or Audrey sometimes, even Amber a couple times! Want to hear a sound clip of a song called Aubrey? Click "hear" (Bread 1972).
2. What instruments do you play and what is your musical background?
Mainly guitar, I've been playing for over four years now. I'm teaching myself bass, and I'm also learning flute. I'm also fooling around on the drums, and I kinda pick at the keyboard.
3. If you write songs, which bands/singers do they sound similar too?
Innocence Mission (the newest album), 100 Portraits (the newest album), maybe a little Sarah Masen.
4. If you sing, which singers would you sound similar too?
Well, these are mostly guesses; Julie Martin (bon voyage), Karen Paris (innocence mission), maybe Mancy A'lan Kane and Christine Glass (even though i'm not really fans of theirs).
5. Most encouraging moment as a musician/singer and why?
when you actually play the right chord or sing in the right key, it's the little things in life that count.
6. Most discouraging moment as a musician/singer and why?
When you don't play the right chord...
7. What is the primary inspiration for your songs?
Life in general, sometimes poems.
8. Which bands/singers most influence your songs?
Sixpence None The Richer, Over The Rhine, 100 Portraits, Our Lady Peace, R.E.M (hehe), Starflyer 59, Element101, cool indie bands, etc.
9. When preforming do you have any particular type of stage look?
I just look like myself.
10. What brands of equipment do you favor?
Epiphone, Shure, EBE alien-head-glow-in-the-dark picks, Fender amps, and Rickenbaucker guitars!
11. The best way to ensure you have the best show possible is to:
Go through a sound check before hand, and make sure everythings "ok" with each person playing,
12. My best original song is:
55!!! hehe, well, probably not.
13. Why?

14. The cover (ie someone else's song) I play/sing the best is:
Geeze, I dunno. I can play a bunch of sixpence's songs, some tess wiley junk. not really top fourty stuff though.
15. Why?
Because I don't like to waste time learning songs, i'd rather make up my own.
16.The one thing that makes my music different from all others is:
Because it .... phewww what's that smell??
17. The cartoon character who has most inspired me is:
Garfield! That cat just rules!
18. If you were on singer/songwriter death row, what would you order for your last club free meal?
Well, if I were playing at a really snazzy club I'd order baby back ribs, nice and tender ones!
Ooops... i just deleted this question, I'll have to find it again...

20. My Most Prized Piece of Equipment is:
My fourtrak, my guitars, my cheese 12 inch "amp" and my shure mic. Everything basicaly.
21. What I, musicialy, would like to accomplish in the next year is:
SOMETHING, gosh you have no idea how long it takes to get anything done!
22. But if I can't accomplish that, at least I'd like to:
Be a rock star! - don't we all? :-)

Cool Quotes:

"I don't want to sound like God gave me this incredible talent, but whatever talent it is, it's from the Lord." - Jason Martin (Starflyer 59)

"I think God is more likely to appreciate a song about an electric stove, written by someone secure in his faith, than a cheesy worship song that has been mass-produced in His name." - Tess Wiley (Phantasmic)

"Everybody says that [high school] is the best years of your life, you know, and you think 'oh great, what's the rest of my life gonna be like...'" --Claire Danes
"I think in the songs where I mention God by name, it's out of discipline and of myself as a believer, of needing to call my attention to it, to be aware of my own failings." - Karen Paris (Innocence Mission)

Nifty Links:
Over The Rhine - OH
Innocence Mission - PA
Sixpence None The Richer - TN
Starflyer 59 - WA (not sure if this is the link)
Sugar Engine Red -Iowa
Eyeris - VA
Alison's Halo- AZ/IL
Element 101 - NJ
Blue Screen - Toronto, Canada
Jillian Tully - IL/NJ
Estis Parc -
Ashley Jean Puckett - Canada
Scarlet Haven - MA