Biography
In 1995 Boston gave rise to the Willard Grant Conspiracy, a loosely assembled folk-noir ensemble founded by vocalist Robert Fisher and guitarist Paul Austin. The pair, who had earlier collaborated in the noise-rock band the Flower Tamers, invited guitarist Sean O'Brien to help test a friend’s newly built home studio and finished their debut album, 3 AM Sunday at Fortune Otto’s, within days; Fisher’s own Dahlia Records imprint released the record in 1996. The project then grew into a fluid collective of roughly twenty local players who met weekly in varying combinations for informal sessions. Guitarist James Apt, violist David Michael Curry, mandolinist Erich Groat and bassist Matt Griffin joined the core trio of Fisher, Austin and O’Brien to cut the WGC’s 1998 Rykodisc/Slow River debut Flying Low. The live set Weevils in the Captain’s Biscuit and the demo collection Radio Free WGC came before the superb 1999 album Mojave, with Everything’s Fine appearing two years afterward.
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