The Mike & Amy Finders Music

Origin: CO,United States

Decades:

Just like the start of all good relationships, they met in a bar. It was 1997, and Amy needed a guitar player to back her up at an art festival in Dubuque, IA. After agreeing to some rehearsals, Mike & Amy found their voices matching, their styles gelling, and their fates intertwining. It took about six months before the romantic defenses fell, but before that, it was instantly what it has always been: musical synergy. Their voices and sensibilities were in immediate alignment. Within two years, the couple had put out two independent CD's of original acoustic folk music, had two daughters, and collected a fanbase stretching up and down the upper Mississippi River and its valley. In 2001 the couple moved to Iowa City, IA, and got serious. Simmering in the stew of bluegrass veterans Bob Black and Al Murphy and songwriters such as Greg Brown and Dave Moore, the couple defined their own brand of "frontier prairie blues."