The Alternate Routes

Infobox musical artist
Name = The Alternate Routes


Img_capt = The Alternate Routes promotional photograph
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Background = group_or_band
Origin = Bridgeport, CT
Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, United States, of America
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Genre = Rock
Roots rock
College rock
Years_active = 2002 – present
Label = Vanguard Records
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URL = http://www.thealternateroutes.com
Current_members = Eric Donnelly
Tim Warren
Mike Sembos
Chip Johnson
David Grant
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The Alternate Routes are a rock band out of Bridgeport, Connecticut formed by Tim Warren and Eric Donnelly in 2002 while studying at Fairfield University. The band recorded their debut album entitled "Good and Reckless and True" in Nashville in 2005.

The next two years were spent touring, and honing their live sound.

In 2007, the band re-released "Good and Reckless and True" on Vanguard Records. The signing happened to take place on Thanksgiving morning of 2006, 30 years to the day after The Last Waltz was filmed, a documentary about The Band that the Routes often cite as being very influential to them.

On April 10, 2007, the Alternate Routes performed "Time is a Runaway" on Late Night With Conan O'Brien. On December 21, 2007, the band released a limited edition acoustic CD only available at shows called The Brooklawn Sessions.

In 2008, the band recorded their follow up LP, Sucker's Dream, again with producer Jay Joyce in Nashville. While waiting for its release in February of '09, the band recorded five songs at Tarquin Studios in their hometown of Bridgeport, Connecticut, just a block away from Tim & Chip's place, a house referred to as "Brooklawn." This collection was released as "The Watershed EP."

Drummer David Grant will be joining the band for a fall tour covering the Northeast, Midwest, Deep South and Rocky Mountains. A video was filmed for the song "Future's Nothing New," the first single off of Sucker's Dream.

Members

*Tim Warren - lead vocals, acoustic guitar
*Eric Donnelly - lead guitar, lap steel guitar, backing vocals
*Chip "Stefan Cortez" Johnson - bass, keys, backing vocals, drums
*Mike Sembos - rhythm guitar, keys, backing vocals
*Stephen Chopek - drums (2005-2007)
*Kurt Leon - drums (Late 2007-Summer 2008)
*David Grant - drums

Discography

*"This is When" EP (2003)
*"Over Your Shoulder" EP (2004)
*"Good and Reckless and True" (2005)
*"Good and Reckless and True" (2007) re-released on Vanguard Records
*"The Watershed EP" (2008)
*"Sucker's Dream" (2009)

References

External links

* [http://www.thealternateroutes.com/ The Alternate Routes Website]
* [http://www.myspace.com/alternateroutes The Alternate Routes MySpace Profile]
* [http://www.vanguardrecords.com/ Vanguard Records]
* [http://www.archive.org/details/TheAlternateRoutes The Alternate Routes collection] at the Internet Archive's live music archive
* [http://media.www.dailyfreepress.com/media/storage/paper87/news/2007/09/27/Muse/Take-A.Detour.With.The.Alternate.Routes-2996453.shtml Michael O'Leary, Take a detour with the Alternate Routes," Daily Free Press, September 7, 2007.]
* [http://media.www.fairfieldmirror.com/media/storage/paper148/news/2007/02/08/Entertainment/Fairfield.Alums.Signed.To.Major.Record.Label-2703598.shtml Alexandra Stewart, "Fairfield Alums Signed to Major Record Label," Fairfield Mirror, February 8, 2007.]