Digby Wallace is a five piece recording group. The music is alternative pop that sounds somewhat like The Wallflowers with a slight Celtic overtone and Natalie Imbruglia or Suzanne Vega singing. The instrumental foundation for all the songs is piccolo bass which sounds like an electric cello. In fact all guitar sounds, except the solos, are piccolo bass. Piano, bass, drums, electric guitar and flute fill out the rest of the instrumentation. The velvet-bullet vocals of Kim Lawrence provide the lyric and melodic sound of Digby Wallace.

Press Info

Open Bar - Make A Star .com
I’m very impressed with this band. This is a very well developed sound and is very appealing on a number of levels. The voice is clean, clear and emotional. Players are all very strong and feel good together.


......"a truly excellent 'n unique pop release - VERY good!!"
LordLitter,
LordLitter RadioShow (Berlin and Europe)


Rhino - Make A Star.com
All the performances are solid and everyone shows great pop sensibilities. The lead vocal has tons of charm and personality. The performance has great energy and sparkle. I think as a band (they) have a lot of marketability.

Similar Artists

Wall Flowers,Natalie Imbruglia,Sheryl Crow,Dave Mathews

Influences

Paul Simon,Sting,Pat Metheny,Tom Waits

Bio

Kim Lawrence has wanted to become a great singer since she was six and would stand in front of the mirror singing Abba tunes into her hairbrush. She has extensive experience singing in Karaoke bars, for her friends in her living room, and in her car. She decided to move beyond singing in the shower and uses her talent in studio work and recording.
Bruce Swanson is the songwriter, piccolo bass, and bass and keyboard player of the group. Like the rest of the group, he had an early start. Watching a neighborhood garage band hooked him while in elementary school. He saved his lawn mowing money to buy a Sears Silvertone guitar and started his own garage band. Later on, Bruce switched to bass and studied jazz and composition while in college. After too many bar bands and near successes, he decided to find his “own voice,” which lead him to the piccolo bass and Digby Wallace. Other than the guitar solos by Jim Boardman on the Digby Wallace CD, all the guitar “sounding” voices are actually produced by the piccolo bass.
Jim Boardman provided all the great guitar solos for the CD. He was musically trained at the College of Music at the University of Colorado at Denver. Jim quite capably constructs solo parts to fit any style of music from the mellow-jazz flavor of “When You’re Here” to the tasty Celtic-rock fills on “Hold Me” on the Digby Wallace CD, “Sweet Talk”. His past experiences, besides the usual band