website: www.indiepages.com/loveletterband
myspace: www.myspace.com/badweathercalifornia
mp3: This World Is Not My Home

hhbtm discography:
hhbtm065 "Fear Not My Brothers, Fear Not My Sisters" CD [February 2006]
hhbtm050 "HHBTM Vol. 3" CD [2004]
hhbtm014 "Hey, It's My Birthday" CS [2000]

non-hhbtm discography:
"This World Be My Church" CD [2005]
split with A Boy Named Thor CDEP [2004]
"Even The Pretty Girls Take Medicine" CD [2002]
"Ugly Town Pretty Girl" CD [2001]
"Vol. 1" CDR [2000]

“Broken down vans, stranded in the desert, missing shows, chipped teeth, broken nose, dirty socks, truck stop food, sleeping on floors, broken strings, thrift store instruments, everyone in the room singing as one, in harmony and in love. Shouting out loud from atop a rickety old chair or cinder block words of hope and anguish. This is my church. Brave and humble.” Chris Adolf

If you haven’t heard of The Love Letter Band by now, you should know this: They are anything but a band in the traditional sense. The word collective is thrown around quite liberally these days since the success that the word had with a certain Elephant 6 in the 90’s. But TLLB is just that: A collective of artists and music players rotating around the loose nucleus that is songwriter Chris Adolf.

In the early days of TLLB (1998-99), young Chris Adolf started to arrange songs on a cheap 1/4" 8-track machine in his small San Diego, California apartment where he was living at the time. That's where Adolf met Gabe Saucedo (founding member of the now legendary Red Pony Clock) who taught him the art of bedroom recording and playing thrift store instruments. Trading tapes of each other’s modest bedroom arrangements, early incarnations of the two respective bands started to form. It wasn’t until Adolf left southern California and Saucedo and moved back to his home in the desert of western Colorado that the love letter band became an entity of its own. Enlisting anyone that he could find to accompany his strange arrangements, TLLB was soon a real life band made up of a rotating cast of music players and recording nerds.

Sometimes an orchestra of up to seven people, sometimes a three piece rock group and sometimes just Chris alone belting out his honest songs, The Love Letter Band has been around - as in around the country - countless times touring the United States, Canada and Mexico, calling broken tour vans and random living room sofas home. These weary eyed travelers have worked hard and have made themselves known the old fashioned way. Since their first tour with Leeds UK’s Boyracer to the epic voyages with Wolf Colonel, Adolf and his rotating cast of thrift store instrument players have shared bills with Doug Martsch (Built to Spill), The Microphones, Mirah, Calvin Johnson, David Dondero, CEX, The Blow… You get the picture. Chris can also be heard on Mirah’s “advisory committee” album (K records) on a song that the two recorded together in the winter of... 1999 was it? Oh yeah, Chris now lives in Denver, Colorado and grew up on a tree farm. Like you care!