Listed as one of the Most Anticipated Albums of 2015 by Eleven PDX!

"Crow and the Canyon restored my faith in string bands."

The foursome knew they were on to something after their first tour, which left them better—as friends and as musicians—than before they left. Their sound is somewhere between Lake Street Dive and Greensky Bluegrass, though if all three were sharing a bill Crow and the Canyon would still definitely stand apart. Live, they drink wine and whiskey and play off the vibe of their crowd, sometimes turning up the rock ‘n’ roll, sometimes going completely acoustic for a second encore.

Watch the band long enough and you’ll keep coming back to their name. The crow flies high, exploring new terrain, while the canyon is grounded, in tradition and form. Both, however, are features of the land’s end, that ethereal place where there are no roads and music thrives. 

"Crow & The Canyon are a band with a future. They have a good look, they’re affable and easy-going on stage and the most important thing, (obviously) they sound tremendous. All of the signifiers of a fantastic night of pickin’ were there: sad songs, drinking songs, dancing songs and of course: heartbreak songs. Austin Quattlebaum, Ben Larsen and Leigh Jones are all accomplished vocalists and players in their own right, but when on stage together they meld into something transfixing. The group went from rowdy, old school drinking numbers where they traded lines and harmonized wonderfully, to slower numbers were Jones played siren to every wistful (wishful?) single fella in the audience.

I couldn’t quite put my finger on what exactly made the band’s sound stand out for me from other bands of their ilk until I did some research on the group’s diverse background. Featuring a Portland music scene vet in Ben Larsen, an Appalachia-via-Savannah, Georgia Southerner in Austin Quattlebaum, a bassist who cut his teeth in Santa Cruz’s funk scene in Miles Berry and Leigh Jones, an NYU-educated performer, Crow & The Canyon’s lineup is quite a bit more diverse than most. It’s also a very Portland lineup, as part of what makes this wonderful city so amazing is the fact that it serves as a beacon for creative types to come together in an environment conducive to producing art. I can’t help but postulate that such a varied background has something to do with the “it” that C&tC have in spades."

-Donovan Farley, True Blue Magazine


Jazz, hip-hop, groove
Alto-saxophonist and composer residing in Chicago.
A taste of the many projects I've been involved in: from straight ahead jazz to my Hiphop-Jazz group Dassit to R&B group J.Hoard & The Greenhouse People to Hip-Hop collaborations with producers and rappers such as Saba, Chad and Ken Ross, BoneLang, Miki Debrouya and more.


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Card-carrying cultists of the Great American Song, the Great American Groove, and the Great American Highway.

Hello - I enjoy recording fields, sounds and music. Original compositions made with violin - guitar - midi - vocals - field recording.

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