 The French Trips are a funk band from Illinois, who pride themselves on stage presence, great live sound, and originality. Influenced by acts such as, James Brown, Frank Zappa, and Talking Heads.

Rock and roll; more emphasis on the roll.

For the better part of a decade, the eponymous songwriter found messages to put out. Utilizing the contributions of a revolving door of musical collaboration, the music became enlivened. Each member helps to fashion songs that evoke both a wildness in desire and nostalgia. What it creates is an outlet. Where distant memories and inspirations shape the present. Where the old generations of rock and roll are simply a jumping-off point into songwriting. Where pensive rhythms and swaying, foot-tapping melodies breathe once worn-out themes to new life.
 
There’s no such thing as a good or bad song. Music hits emotion or it doesn’t. The Mike Lynch Band makes good on this. As a Midwestern act from Carbondale, IL., now based out of Nashville, TN, they manage to relate a universal element through their airwaves. To shape songs that embody the errors and mistakes of experience. Music about love and inadequacy, hunger and guns. The Mike Lynch Band evokes the effect that collaborated life produces: honest and wild human emotion.
 
                                     							-Fredric Saunders

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