Bio

Screen Door Porch’s debut studio album was named to following Best-of Lists:
* Roots Music Report Top 100 Folk Albums of 2011
* Wyoming Public Radio’s Best of Wyoming 2010
* #14 on Tupelo Honey’s Top 20 Americana Releases of 2010
* #77 on Twangville’s Top 100 Releases
* American Roots UK, Editor's Top 25 Picks of 2010

“All my years are gone, faded one by one, washed into the grain," professes Seadar Rose in the opening lines of "Wrong the Right," the lead track from Screen Door Porch's critically acclaimed, self-titled debut album. As the fusion of experience and poetic ramblings of yesteryear compile, this concept couldn’t be truer for two artists that have reached a turning point in their career.

With roots in Kentucky and North Carolina, the band is based in the Teton Mountains of Jackson Hole, Wyoming. After releasing a combined three EPs and three full-length albums with other projects, the core duo of Screen Door Porch—Seadar Rose and Aaron Davis—have shaped a songwriting bedrock described by The Austin Chronicle as, “a combination that goes down as smoothly as top-shelf bourbon.”

Whether performing as a duo or quartet (with bass and drums), Screen Door Porch’s uncommon meld of groove-injected Folk-Blues, Soulful Americana, Rock and Alt-Country is garnished with a range of instrumentation. From stripped-down acoustic songs to lush electric textures, the duo utilizes acoustic & electric guitars, mandolin, banjo, harmonica, kazoo, even an old Samsonite suitcase for a kick drum! Fans are drawn to their infectious live energy, song craft, and male/female vocal harmonies that draw comparisons to Gillian Welch/David Rawlings.

Screen Door Porch made tremendous career strides in 2010. Recorded during a five-month residency in Austin, Texas, their debut album was lauded as “a true American roots album” by Maverick Magazine and was honored in four highly regarded Top Album Lists of 2010. The album of twelve original songs was also incorporated into the selective Internet radio station, Pandora. Along with over twenty glowing reviews from across the U.S. and internationally, the album has received widespread airplay on dozens of radio stations and reached #16 on Roots Music Folk Radio Chart alongside Bob Dylan.

Also aiding in the rapid growth of their fan base, Screen Door Porch has been fortunate to share concert bills with Willie Nelson, Wilco, Brian Wilson, Yonder Mountain String Band, Jim Avett, James McMurtry, Grace Potter and The Nocturnals, Kaki King, Malcolm Holcombe, Anne & Pete Sibley, Jalan Crossland, and Reckless Kelly, as well as appearances at South by Southwest Festival, Grand Teton Music Festival, and Jackson Hole Music Festival.

Solo Notes:
“If back in the early eighties Gillian Welch and Bonnie Raitt cornered Townes Van Zandt at a party, engaged in a massive love-in, and produced a female musical offspring, she might sound a little something like Seadar Rose.” Rose grew up in North Carolina, where she was exposed to the roots of Appalachian folk music. A vocalist as a young girl before she ever picked up an instrument, she started performing again after meeting Davis in Wyoming. During a songwriting stint in Austin, she recorded an EP with Austin guitarist/producer Rich Brotherton (of Robert Earl Keen). In 2009, Rose headlined the Women of Jackson Concert at the Center Theater in Jackson.

Davis hails from Kentucky, where he won awards for his descriptive poems in grade school. Inspired from the folk-rock of Dylan and The Band, as well as the blossoming jamband scene, he picked up the guitar at age nineteen. His interest in various string instruments, roots music, writing and fly-fishing became engrained after moving to Wyoming in 2001. His solo album Rear View Mirror was called "One of the Best Americana Releases of 2008" by Rootstime and it reached #16 on the Freeform American Roots Chart alongside Bob Dylan and Old Crow Medicine Show. Davis earned runner-up honors at the Dreams Acres Music Festival Songwriter Contest, and had one of his songs selected for the television series Road Trip Nation. He has also released albums as frontman for Boondocks and Global Review, and is founder/producer of regional singer-songwriter series, Songwriter’s Alley.