“Straddling the boundary between punk rock and mountain music, Bemis is known for taking traditional songs most people have never heard and adapting them in ways that are both inventive…
Category: Reviews
Review from Knox Student [Galesburg, IL]
If you cross a vagabond with a bottle of whiskey and a few banjo strings, the outcome is likely to be folk singer Andru Bemis. Playing a half an hour…
“Andru Bemis: Modern Mountain Man”
By Carly Stingl, from Emmie Magazine, Vol X Issue 2, Winter 2008 “When I was 14 all my friends made fun of me, ’cause I wore kickers [sic] instead of…
Review from Emily Hurd
… Food Review: Andru Bemis is a whole tea party. A hundred different cups of tea, all made the same way, but with different strengths and weaknesses and grit and…
“Rail To Reel” review from Folk It Up
“… It may be the sincerity of his voice or the way he strings his words together in such fine fashion, either way, [Rail to Reel] was one of the…
Review from ThisIsHappening [Lafayette, IN]
“Michigan’s premier neo folk artist … is a modern day train hopping, banjo slinging troubadour who has made a name for himself in small venues across the US. His charismatic…
Quote from Jason Webley
“… [Andru] possesses one of the most unique and beautiful voices you will ever hear” — Jason Webley
Review from Birmingham Weekly [Birmingham, AL]
“… modern-folk, Midwestern miracle of music … [his voice is] pretty and ravaged, sounding as though 50 Appalachian winters have run him ragged …” — Birmingham Weekly [Birmingham, AL]
“Rail To Reel” album description from Wepecket Island Records
“Tradition-based contemporary folk, in this emerging force’s second CD, evoking Jimmie Rogers, Woodie Guthrie and the growth of American culture as it spread across the Plains and Prairies and wound…
Rail To Reel album notes from Wepecket Island Records
“Andru Bemis is a traditionalist with a fresh approach and a modern troubadour with deep respect for the roots of his craft. He is a gifted vocalist and instrumentalist. His…