Muus

Before there was Muus, before the very idea of Muus, we went to a street-lit corner, set out a guitar case, and jammed on the only three songs we had memorized: Love, Love, Love by Avalanche City, Wait so Long by Trampled by Turtles, and Little Lion Man by Mumford & Sons. We made $16 and some change and - being the college students we were – went straight to the liquor store to buy some UV Blue and RC Cola with only the cash in our pocket. Needless to say, we don’t quite recall how the rest of that night went, but it might have been good. We started up a strange assortment of friends, and called ourselves Ocelot Revolver (aka Cat Gun) at our college, which consisted of a guitar, banjo, a spicy redhead vocalist, and a bass player who never wore shoes. But we were missing something. So when our good friend came and played rain stick for us, we knew we had it right (on a side note, he designed the album cover to ‘We Go From Here’). And at one of our gigs he got real drunk and ran around the bar shaking his rain stick at anybody who would pay attention, time signature be damned. That spirit stuck with us when we moved to Nowhere, Wisconsin, where the average age was 60, and going to meat raffles was a Friday night out. As we struggled through our day jobs, music became something more than drunk jams around bonfires and open mics on small stages – it was our escape, our therapy, our lasting necessity. And so, in Chris’ cave of an apartment, Muus was born. Muus (Pronounced "Moose") is a neo-folk group from Minneapolis. Members include Amanda (cello), Chris (guitar), Tyler (Bass) and Paul (banjo).