"We know we need to keep our day jobs," Miller said. Working at Hungry Howie's, Jet's Pizza and a golf course are not their ultimate career plans. It's about the sound you get and making it new each time you play it."įor now the band is still growing, and the members want to use their recently earned college degrees to jumpstart their band. It's not about practicing a song until it's perfect. "Braxton's voice is also another component that I think helps us be different.
"We definitely think we are different because we don't run across a lot of power trios anymore," Hester said. Their favorites are a mix of blues and rock with Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Gary Clark Jr., Stevie Ray Vaughn, Black Crowes and the Allman Brothers. The sound of their band comes from a lifetime of listening to the artists on their parents' vinyl records. "But at the end of it, I really think the song is about how your friends are your family." "A lot of it came from watching my roommate and, of course, going into and out of my friendships," Hester said. "The Breaker" evolved out of watching his friends around him, how they fall apart but became united.
He matched the lyrics to one of Pearson's riffs. One tune, "Apple Tree," came to him during a literature class at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Hester has written three of the band's songs, and throughout this next year, the band is working on creating its own album. "I never spoke up until a lot later into my playing." "I just always thought to play drums," Pearson said. However, Pearson never thought of himself as a lead singer, even though he watched his dad drum and sing while he grew up. The group has since meshed together with Hester the lead guitar player, Pearson on drums and lead vocals and Miller on the bass. Pearson did not have to look far before he and Miller crossed paths while each was going to school at Middle Tennessee State. "But he never copyrighted it or anything, so we didn't see any harm in using it again." "Harrison Anvil used to be the name of my dad's band in the '70s," Pearson said. The name came easier than finding Miller, who moved to Middle Tennessee from Kentucky. With one of them able to snake up and down the frets of a guitar and the other able to keep a beat with a pair of sticks, all Pearson and Hester lacked was a name and bassist. Pearson and Hester had no problem developing a band together, as the two Nashvillians have known each other since they met on a Little League field more than a decade ago. It only takes one person to have that good night." It matters if that right person is in the audience who can make your break. "But it does not always matter the crowd size. "You could play in front of two or 100 people on any given night here," Hester says. After beginning to play together a little more than a year ago, the group with the masculine name is looking for a slice of Nashville success. Fans crowded the floor in front of the stage, most dancing with cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon, and some in the eclectic audience had a Hula-Hoop in hand. Harrison Anvil's performance was pretty good, they surmised. They come to join Miller on the brick wall smoking Camel and American Spirit cigarettes.
The band's gig at The Rutledge is done.ĭrummer and lead singer Braxton Pearson and lead guitarist Dylan Hester let the glass door of the venue quietly shut behind them. Sterling Miller, bassist for the band Harrison Anvil, stows the last of the band's equipment in his navy Mercury minivan, whose rear window is covered by a multitude of fading stickers. At midnight the sidewalk on Fourth Avenue South is silent except for the occasional passing car or dump truck.
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