Patrick Mongeau and the Janky Teeth

After some false starts with cello and trumpet, Patrick Mongeau found his home yelping his own words along with a strummed guitar. He has been in one band or other almost ever since. Meanwhile, Steve, Rusty, and Zac were honing their skills in more improvisational bands. When these talented musicians agreed to back up Patrick with his own compositions, something special was created.

The original concept for the band came when Patrick decided to relisten to Buddy Holly songs. He soon became obsessed wtih the late fifties and artists like Holly, Chuck Berry, Elvis, Ritchie Valens, The Everly Brothers, and writing teams like Lieber & Stoller and Holland-Dozier-Holland. He started to wonder what Holly might have written had he grown up in the 1990s. He spent over a year tooling his first song, Traveling Salesman, before asking Steve and Rusty to record with him.

Years later, Zac joined, and added a new dimension with his piano playing. The band remains committed to fine-tuning short songs. They make songs quickly, then move on and do something else entirely. No song is epic, no song is redundant, no song is any less or more than it needs to be. With simple arrangements that get to the point immediately and disappear suddenly, Patrick Mongeau and the Janky Teeth focus on brevity and form. Of course, if you can't move to the beat, there's no point in the music, so everything is spiced with a healthy dose of head-bopping boogie. Rock on!