The Gousters Update

The roots Americana country group the Gousters have moved up to the 32nd Spot on Roots Music Report as of Friday, March 31, 2006.

An eclectic blend of traditional country, country, rock & ballads in the alternative genre

I was very gratified to see the Gousters climb to the 32nd spot on Roots Music Report on 3-31-06. My songwriting partner Zander Schloss and I want to tell you a little about how we came together. I met Zander on the set of the cult film by Alex Cox. Zander played the part of “Kevin," opposite Emilio Estevez' character “Otto." Harry Dean Stanton had the lead role. Zander went on to writing many of the soundtracks for Alex on Sid & Nancy and Straight to Hell, writing with Joe Strummer on that film.

He is also the bass player for the Circle Jerks, a founding punk band in Los Angeles. I reunited with Zander when he rented the studio apartment over my garage and thus began our collaboration. We spent three years in the basement and two years at Brian Susko's Westside Recorder Studio in Santa Monica. It was there that musician friends helped lay down the lush violin backgrounds heard on a number of the songs and other tracks.

Three of the songs are from Zander's former band Low & Sweet Orchestra with James Feanely of the Pogues on accordion and Dermot Mulrooney, now an actor. The band was dropped with a few hundred other artists from Interscope Records during the late 90's culling. I feel very fortunate to have had the opportunity to work with Zander.

I'm a Vietnam Veteran with post-traumatic stress, having served as a Navy Corpsman (medic) with a Marine platoon in Vietnam in 1970.

It is our wish to find (or be found) by a label and establish a publishing deal. We are the only band listed on the report with a demo CD. I hope we will continue to get more airplay and the consideration of someone in the business to take a good hard “listen" to what we have accomplished so far.

Music available on site--have a listen.

Walt Cronin
www.thegousters.com
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