Robert Cody Maxwell
Brooklyn, NY | Established. Jan 01, 2014
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The Gentlemen Vain consists of Daniel Villanueva, Robert Cody Maxwell, Clemente Gomez and David Snawder. Robert Cody Maxwell is the lead singer. Maxwell said, “My backing band is ‘The Gentlemen Vain’ in reference to Dutch Vanitas artwork [still-life] and the temporal nature of earthly life, and it is a reflection of our own focus artistically on the fragile nature of our lives and our relationship to our world.” The band’s style is described as Americana or indie-folk music, with vocal harmony-centric arrangements in the style of The Avett Brothers and Jackson Browne. - CBS Local
Hand Drawn Records is returning to Austin, Texas’ Brass House, located just a few blocks from 6th Street, for it’s second annual unofficial label showcase, featuring over 40 bands on two stages, Friday & Saturday, March 20 and 21st during the city’s famed music week. - Hand Drawn Records
Discography
Mockingbyrd Station - 2013
Victory EP - 2014
Hand Drawn Records Analog Sessions Vol. 1 (Victory) - 2015
Silas Nello - Easy Listening for Uneasy People (all electric guitars) - 2018
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Maxwell is Waco, Texas born multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter and sideman who tours and records with a revolving door of acts. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York, where he provides auxiliary instrumentation for recordings and live performances in the Lower East Side folk music scene.
As a soloist, Maxwell produces intimate live experiences that sometimes feel more like theatre than folk music, drawing comparisons to Pennsylvania's Langhorne Slim or Sweden's Kristian Matsson (The Tallest Man on Earth). In addition to playing alone, Maxwell also fronts a rock and roll band. It's a lively, lyric-driven, harmony-centric affair, drawing heavily from Jackson Browne, Dawes, and Bruce Springsteen.
Maxwell is also one-half of a more traditionally folk-music centered project with Tennessee native and former Brooklynite Robert Kitchens (The Tumble, The Bookhouse Boys, Kitchens' Inc.). They perform together as a duo under the name Roberts. Rolling guitar lines and vocal harmonies channel the spirit of The Dave Rawlings Machine and The Milk Carton Kids, and their interpretations of the great American songbook breathes new life into the genre. They are one part Texas, one part Tennessee
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