|
|
BRIEF HISTORY (Because there isn't much to tell) |
It all began in a hospital in rural Tennessee in 1932. Oh, sorry, Rick...we said we wouldn't tell. Anyhow, fast forward to 2008. Kevin, Rick and Jock had been playing together in a band and also at their respective churches. They decided to keep the dream alive. Keep it alive! Sorry, got excited for a second there. Enter Craigslist. Exit the Dragon (actually not, but it seemed appropriate to honor Bruce Lee, may he rest in kung fu peace.) Then enter Lacy Griffin, her lovely bubblegum-smelling perfume and pajama-pants that you can apparently wear in public and afterthought Canuck Steve Krell and voila! it's alive! Bassist and recording engineer Andres Garcia joined in 2009 and took the band to a "whoe new leba" (Mad TV). OG is a true garage band, practicing above Rick's garage, which is a sweet audio set-up indeed. OG has been playing around the Memphis area ever since which, yes, is not very long. So there you have it. Somebody tell Wikipedia. To sum up, OG is 5 dudes and a chick that love music, love God and want to honor Him and uplift others with music. |
STYLE (Sounds like...hey, wait, I thought you could only use drawings in Pictionary) |
OG plays primarily contemporary Christian (pop/rock) music, including covers of current and recent CCM songs as well as their own original music. The band also plays some mainstream pop/rock tunes. With the exception of their own de-countrified version of Bless the Broken Road, they eschew country music. Deal with it. OG's sound is similar to bands such as FFH, Addison Road, Casting Crowns, Caedmon's Call, Watermark and other male/female duo groups. OG does songs by MercyMe, 33Miles, Francesca Battistelli, Todd Agnew, Jennifer Knapp, Nichole Nordeman, Bebo Norman, Rush of Fools, Seven Places, to give some examples. The band plays at church and youth group events and Christian music festivals and can fill in leading worship but can also do other events such as seasonal events, corporate events and weddings and can prepare requests if given enough lead time. |
NAME (A rose by any other name is not a Grove...) |
Where did "Oliver Grove" come from? What does it mean? Where to start? This name is so multi-facted and has so many complex layers and highly-nuanced dimensions that to completely decode it would probably require the same erudite team of academics that deciphered the Rosetta stone. But peeling all those layers away and getting to the core of this odoriferous, tear-inducing onion, it's the name of a street near where we practice. Well, even that is not entirely accurate. The street is called "Oliver's Grove" but the possessive didn't roll of the tongue quite as easily, so we dropped the 's. We have no idea who Oliver is, nor how or why he first laid claim to this grove. We just hope it does not come out later that he was guilty of some sort of heinous crime. Please feel free to revel in the profundity of the deep and meaningful symbolism imbued in our name and then be grateful it only wasted about a split second. |