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THE BELIEVERS

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Having already shared the stage with such artists as Texas legend Billy Joe Shaver, The Supersuckers, and Buddy and Julie Miller to name just a few,The Believers have released their second album "Crashyertown." Their soulful Americana folk-rock sound has promise to create a genre all its own - astounding audiences with uncompromising music and memorable lyrics.

The two voices behind the Believers are Cynthia Frazzini and Craig Aspen.

Trading her horse in for a Volvo, Frazzini, moved to Seattle from her country home in Denver, Colorado. She began performing in rock bands, listening to Metallica and the heavy sounds of Seattle's grunge explosion. Then she was re-introduced to Bluegrass Music. From that moment she was determined to pursue and learn more about the Appalachian style and its influences on American-Folk music.
Aspen was born and raised in New York. With guitar in tow he wrote and sang his way up and down the East Coast, traveled through the mountains of Peru, lived and died in New Orleans before finally landing in the great Pacific Northwest.

Frazzini and Aspen were encouraged by a mutual friend to sing together on a solo project that Aspen was recording. They instantly realized that their vocal chemistry had a magic quality that was unlike any combination either of them had experienced previosly. An unmistakable sound was born.Within weeks after meeting each other the band The Believers was innocently created.

The blend of these two artists is a complex paradox where opposites attract. Aspen hailing from the concrete jungles of New York City, his rough and tumble street-smart style that wears well against Frazzini's plains of Colorado background. Her gentle and transparent voice creates the balance of these two artists into a particularly effective and cohesive sound that will keep the listener wanting to close their eyes and wander off into their lyrical landscapes.

When, in their home town of Seattle, The Believers recorded Crashyertown, they called Ray Kennedy, Steve Earle, Billy Joe Shaver, Nanci Griffith and Lucinda Williams and requested the mastering genius of his unique, skillful and unorthodox techniques.

In September of 2004, fulfilling a dream that had started three years earlier, the singer/songwriter team sold Cynthia's catering business, packed a trailer, grabbed their musical instruments and Pug-dog Beannie Boy Frazzini and drove across the USA to Nashville, however presumptuous that it may seem - does not matter.

Their love of music and their desire to creatively inspire others, fuels their drive.

The Believers have pushed to make Crashyertown a huge musical progression on all levels of musical production. It is sure to crash your town.