the band

"Kyle Hurbut on guitar, Adam Popick plays bass, Zac Mangan on drums and Adam Ollendorff on...everything else that no one else could possibly try to play. I met these guys in late 2006 and shortly after we met and fell in love, we ran away to hawaii and recorded Skin and Bone. They make me crazy but they keep me sane."

Kyle Hurlbut (Lead Guitar, Vocals)

Multi-instrumentalist/songwriter/producer/recording engineer/math whiz Kyle Hurlbut won First Prize in the 2007 Country Music Television (CMT)/Nashville Songwriters Association song competition, and received a 2005 Performing Singer/Songwriter award from Berklee College of Music .   At Berklee, Hurlbut earned a reputation as the go-to session guitarist for roots rock and Americana, and has produced demos and full-length records for many of the school's standout pop, rock and country artists. He currently plays guitar with some of New England's most promising young singer/songwriters.   Kyle hails from Nebraska and has perfect hair.

Adam Ollendorff (Pedal Steel, Lap Steel, Dobro, Guitar)

Multi-instrumentalist Adam Ollendorff performs with a variety of up-and-coming roots rock, Americana and country artists throughout New England, and has opened for LeAnn Rimes, Travis Tritt, and Michelle Branch, among others.   He also performs with Nashville-based artist, Jesse Terry.   As a session musician, he has worked with producers Ken Stringfellow (R.E.M.), George Massenberg, Leanne Ungar (Leonard Cohen), Armsted Christian, and Steve Hunt (Allan Holdsworth).

Ollendorff grew up in Chicago and studied literature and journalism at Princeton University.   After college, he worked in state and local politics, and eventually left a job with the Illinois Attorney General to attend Berklee College of Music.

Adam Popick (Bass, Backing Vocals)

The son of a prominent visual artist and a self-effacing but industrious homemaker, Adam Popick grew up in small-town Vermont and started playing piano before learning to walk.   He began percussion studies in junior high, and established his first victory over his parents by moving a drum kit into his father's painting studio.  

Popick taught himself to play the few guitars his father kept around the house.   When a friend's high-school band found itself without a bassist, Adam's profound versatility naturally led him to that other fretted instrument.

Since then, Popick has sported a variety of hairstyles while fronting punk groups, thrashing in metal bands, and backing sensitive singer/songwriters on bass, drums, guitar, and keyboards.  

One of the hardest-working musicians in Boston, he performs in clubs and concert-venues virtually every night of the week.   Adam has toured Eastern Europe with the Tufts University Big Band; played the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas; produced countless records and demos at Berklee College of Music and on his own OutTake Records label; and lent his multi-instrumental talents to a host of recordings with up-and-coming artists throughout New England.

Zach Mangan (Drums, Percussion)

Born and raised near Minnesota's Twin Cities, percussionist Zach Mangan spent most of his early years as a misbegotten vocalist before public opinion inspired a switch to drums at the age of 11.   On scholarship at Boston's Berklee College of Music , he studied with Dave King, Jamey Haddad (Paul Simon), and Ralph Peterson, Jr.   Zach has toured throughout the United States and Europe playing rock, pop and jazz, and has performed with such luminaries as Joe Lavano, George Garzone, and Terri Lyne Carrington.   Currently, Zach is single and looking for a girlfriend.