13 Scotland Road is a rare and dynamic blues and acoustic roots band. The band has performed at clubs, festivals and concerts from California to the East Coast. They relocated to Portland Maine from New Jersey where they played a range of venues from clubs like the Gas Light, to Music Store concerts, to even a benefit performance at the Hudson County Prison. The band recently performed to adoring and sold out crowds while on a tour from LA to Seattle Washington.
13 Scotland Road features the dynamic voice and stellar harmonica playing of Aaron Seglin along with the soulful slide guitar performances by guitarist Bill Binford. Added to their engaging sound is newcomer and electric guitarist Ben Andreasen, a Maine native. "That Andreasen”, said Binford “has a gift for tasty melodies and fits our band like a glove.”
	Binford first met Seglin many years ago noticing him walking in the middle of a busy New Jersey intersection. Seglin, blind from birth, had no fear of the busy Jersey avenues, yet Binford sensed danger from the speeding aggressive drivers and guided him to a nearby sidewalk. Seglin smiled at Bill with his patented big grin. Bill nodded to himself and went about his business. At a busy jam session a few hours later, and totally by chance, Bill started playing a vintage guitar. All of a sudden, someone started playing a harmonica. It was Aaron, and the two felt an instant musical connection. They formed a band and named it after the rented flat where Aaron was living ..... 13 Scotland Road.
Steeped in authentic blues, Bill Binford grew up attending Juke Joints south of the Mason Dixon Line in Virginia. On an old record player, he listened to artists such as Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, and John Lee Hooker. Bill's Aunt Alma rented out rooms in her big-old Victorian House. One day, Bill heard this magical sound drifting up from his Aunt's basement. It was one of the boarders, Mr. Pitts, who kindly showed the nine year old music fan his guitar and a few chords. Shortly after, Bill got his first guitar, not much more then a box with strings, Bill remembers, and the rest is history.
Aaron Seglin grew up in Jersey where he sang nonstop from his earliest memory. He use to belt out duets with his brother on Jersey street corners. "People used to gather when we’d start singing," he recalls. Seglin listened to everything he could get his ears on. Aaron loved music from world music, to songs and albums performed by Emmylou
 	Harris to Paul Simon. He recalls first picking up a guitar after noticing the attention that girls gave guys who played guitar at high school parties. He also knew that being blind, he couldn’t easily negotiate walking from room to room at crowded parties to meet people. "I couldn’t compete with football players,” said Seglin “but I could play guitar and knew that it felt good. People liked it. I liked it." His first guitar was a Hondo his parents gave to him on his seventeenth birthday. “It changed my life”, said Seglin.
Ben Andreasen, lead guitarist, met Bill at an open mic in Portland, Maine. When Bill first saw Ben play, he noticed Ben had a passion for the guitar.. They started playing together. Ben was willing to learn and expand his knowledge. He took what he learned and ran with it.
	13 Scotland Road just finished recording their first single with Bendiksen Productions, “Been Down That Road,” mixed in the famous recording town Muscle Shoals, Alabama by Fame studio engineer John Gifford. The single was mastered by legendary mastering engineer and Portland resident, Bob Ludwig. The music video was produced by Luigi Scarcelli and Lance Bendiksen in conjunction with Optimist Pictures. As Aaron Seglin is an avid sailor, the video was sponsored by Sail Maine featuring the band sailing on Casco Bay and shots with Model and Comedian Christina Marielebel. 

Debut single and music video, Been Down that Road https://vimeo.com/788835037

A classically trained flutist and opera singer, an ad hoc multi-instrumentalist, song writer and apocalyptic dreamweaver. Major influences are Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Happy Rhodes, Sol Invictus, the Moody Blues, and the Strawbs.

Solo artist from Portland, Maine.  Music coming soon!

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