Andy Palmer

Erstwhile public defender in Brooklyn, N.Y. songwriter Andy Palmer performs solo and leads his band, formerly Grub Street Writer. Three years of living and working in the trenches of Brooklyn's underbelly provide fodder for his lyrics and raw boom/clank of a sound, which might be qualified as folk rock with an alternative edge. His vocal quality has been compared to Cat Stevens, Ian Anderson, Tom Waits and others, but has always been very much his own making, emerging from long periods of solitude and silence.