>What got you into music? I think my genes did! I've always been a huge music fan and a musician of one sort or another. My father is a jazz musician and my mother is a huge fan of bluegrass.

>How long you been doing the original music thing? I picked up a guitar in 1997 and songs started popping out about a week after I learned my first chord (E7). I learned how to play CC Rider from page one of a "how to play blues guitar" book. Then I stole the chords and made my own song!

>Are you folksie in everything you do? Well, that depends what you mean by folksie... I shower regularly and shave things that need shaving, so I guess I'm no hippie, but I do like talking animals on TV. That just cracks me up!!

>Where do you see red molly going in the next 5 years? All the way, hopefully. I want to open for Allison Krauss and do a tour with Bonnie Raitt, hopefully get both of those gals to cover one of my songs! Oh and if this is a wish list, I'd also like to meet Jerry Douglas
(he's just the best Dobro player in the world). Well to be honest, I could be playing gigs at libraries for the next 10 years and I'd still be happy. As long as I get to play and eventually make that my main job in life.

>You wanna write gleny.com's next themesong? OK- how's this... Gleny gleny bo-beny bannanna fanna fo feny... that's all I have right now but I'll work on it. >Because you are a musician, do you hear and see music all over, like at
>the mall, or the grocery? Well, I notice music and hear things a little differently than some of my friends. I listen for the arrangements of songs and look for what makes a great song work- maybe a nice melody or a rhythmic thing, a cool bass line or really catchy lyrics. I like finding cool rhythms in heavy metals songs and putting them into bluegrass. >Where did the name come from? ho is 'red molly'? Ok well, it's a accidental homage to Richard Thompson, who wrote a song called 1952 Vincent Black Lightning in which female character is named Red Molly. Her boyfriend dies and leaves her his motorcycle- not bad! It's a song that's been covered by rock artists and bluegrass artists alike, which is why it fits us. Anyway, the name came from a combination of my love for the spunky color and the sweetness of a little girl named Molly, who I met on the subway in NYC. >Do you guys have a big lesbian following?
Hmm, I don't know. How do we go about getting one of those? :)
>How do you describe RED MOLLY's sound?
We're a little country, a little rock and roll, as cliche as that sounds! We play rootsy, bluegrassy tunes with 3-part harmonies, banjo, driving guitar, and Dobro. But then we also do some Western Swing, some classic "Elvis meets Hank Williams," and some modern Folk like Patti Griffin. >So, male groupies... what's the scoop?
Yes, please send them. Thank you. >You guys did a nude calendar shoot. How long did it take to talk everyone into that? What was it like?
We were psyched actually. It was the most fun we've ever had during a photo shoot! I think every band should do it. >Tell me about the live album Red Molly has coming out.
Well, we recorded it in December 2005 at Bennett Studios in Englewood, NJ. We invited about 50 people from our mailing list into the studio and recorded everything live. It was an exhausting day, but SO worth
it. Normally bands take months recording an album one instrument at a time, but we got a whole album in one day. We are mixing it right now, balancing things and adding a couple of studio tracks to it. The CD should be out in June. >You have written some original songs for Red Molly. Any chance of you guys
>writing songs together?
We've been so busy that we haven't had the chance, but it certainly could happen. It's hard enough to write a song alone, though, I can't even imagine how we'd do it together! We have tons of fun arranging songs, though. Taking them apart and making the story come through with dynamics, different harmonies, breaks and a cappella parts.