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Fayme Rochelle and The Waxwings

Fayme Rochelle & The Waxwings is a La Crosse based Americana/Roots/Bluegrass band. That’s an overly complicated way of saying they play a little bit of everything and borrow from several different genres of music.

Because of that, their sound becomes a pleasant mixture of bluegrass, roots, blues and Americana. Equipped with original songs, a second album in production and a first album already completed (“Home”), they are hitting the live music circuit with a force!

Fayme Rochelle & The Waxwings have played riverboats (Mississippi Explorer, Julie Belle Swain, La Crosse Queen), variety shows (Old School Variety Show, Frozen River Chautauqua) festivals (Kickapoo Country Fair, Bandit County Fair), benefits (Three Rivers Waldorf School, Echo Valley Hope), coffee houses (Acoustic Café, The Root Note), bars (Popcorn, The Joint) as well as many other private parties, wine tastings, and weddings.

They primarily play in the La Crosse, Wisconsin area, but have traveled to Madison, Eau Claire, Winona and do plan an expanded tour.

They have their own sound and light equipment, but work on a case by case basis with each client regarding the best Quality show for them and their Guests!

For some of the Best in Acoustic, Folk and that Real, Down-Home Country Hill Music, then look no further!

"Fayme Rochelle" and The Waxwings, truly a breath of Pure Mountain Air!

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Date Published:	05/18/2010
Publisher:	Second Supper
Author:	Adam Bissen

Fayme Rochelle and the Waxwings have a buzzReviewed By: adam.bissen@secondsupper.comLa Crosse’s most promising string band is writing great songs, recording a debut album and gigging all over town, and once the lead singer finishes school they’ll hit the road and push the music as far as they can take it.That’s a timeless trajectory, a great American tradition, but Fayme Rochelle and the Waxwings are in a different position than most aspiring bands. For one thing, Fayme Rochelle doesn’t just sit in a classroom and listen to lectures. She stands in front of them and teaches high school English. This may be Rochelle’s final semester of student teaching at Logan High School (full disclosure: my little sister is in her class and thinks she has a promising career), but come spring Rochelle’s focus will go straight to music.While Fayme Rochelle and the Waxwings already have a dedicated following in La Crosse, the upside to the band is high. Its five members have only been playing together for six months — although many were in an earlier incarnation, the Bottom of the Barrel String Band, yet their setlists are almost 80 percent original material, a rarity among bands in their old-timey genre.“When I was learning these songs, I just assumed that most of them were traditional,” said bassist John Caucutt, who also contributes original songs. “It wasn’t until after a month or so that I found out Fayme had actually written a lot of these songs. They sounded so good. It was kind of shocking, really.”Although Rochelle is the band’s main songwriter, she actually has the least experience of anyone in the group. Casey Barth, her husband and the band’s mandolin player, was a founding member of the Smokin’ Bandits and played with that group from 2001-05. Tripp Evenson, the banjo player, performed with Barth in the Irish group the Amadans, while Caucutt has been a fixture on the La Crosse rock and punk scenes with a number of bands, most recently Chuff and Super Deece. Fiddler Joni Welda played classical music for 40 years and also performs with the Coulee Celtic Band.In contrast, Rochelle has only been making music for the past five years. “I just started falling in love with Lucinda Williams and Gillian Welch,” she explained, citing pioneers of the modern alt-country scene. “When I first started listening to Gillian Welch it was like ‘OK, that’s what I want to do.’ And Neko Case. I have like biggest crushes on all of them.”Since first catching the songwriting bug and plucking away on the acoustic guitar, Rochelle has developed an innate ear for traditional harmonies and melds them with the evocative lyrics of an English teacher. In February she self-released a solo album that has already grabbed the attention of a Nashville-based song-writing agent who wants to license her tunes and pitch them to established country and bluegrass artists.“I was just like ‘Holy crap!’” Rochelle remembered. “Because she called on like a Sunday at noon and I’m like ‘Really? It’s pretty weird that you are that interested in them.’”But Rochelle isn’t about to move the Nashville and embark on a songwriting career. First there’s the matter of Fayme Rochelle and the Waxwing’s debut album, which they are in the midst of recording at Caucutt’s home studio. Then there are future engagements, such as the Frozen River Film Festival in Winona — where the band will perform next month — and the Popcorn Tavern, where it plays on Friday night. After that, with an album to promote and a guitar player with a fresh diploma, the band plans to hit the road.“I know I’m not going to get a teaching job right away,” Rochelle admits, “so this spring we think it’s going to be a bigger push to start to branch out a little bit more, have a little freedom to actually travel and hopefully see what comes of it.”

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