In three short years, Middle Rhythm Session has played in 9 states(NY, NH, NC, GA, OK, LA, TX, MO, CO) and all over the state of Florida to decent crowds and excellent reviews. The Florida Chapter of the 2005 Florida Grammy's acknowledged the band as a semi-finalist. Yamaha Commercial Audio/Nexo selected Middle Rhythm Session as its band to demo this years newest speakers on the largest portable soundstage in the world for the ET-Live/ LDI conference in Orlando, Nov. '05. Their song, "Ragamuffin," has been downloaded close to 700,000 times in the calendar year of '05 and their website has been hit 3,000,000 times and... and to think it all started from a napkin in a wine bar in Minneapolis, spring of 2000.
Jake Hunter was working as a recording engineer/producer in the twin cities when he was convinced by a close friend to start a band and perform again. They got to talking and came up with the essentials to what is now Middle Rhythm Session. Jake moved to Florida ("we all decided to be warm if poor...") and bought a sizeable piece of property to build a state of the art recording and rehearsal studio (to be used as a venue as well) called Crooked Tree (70 acres; 5000 sq/ft). The rest of the guys moved down in 2002-2003 and their first gig was April 26th , 2003.
Since then the band has worked hard to refine their songs and show adding the latest in sound with Bose PA System and a level one endorsement from Audix Microphones. They have played close to 300 shows in the last 3 years and are on track for playing 150 shows in '06. With already having met with the likes of Infinity Broadcasting, MTV, and Atlantic Records who knows what is in store for the boys in '06... Besides working harder on their roots style fusion, incorporating a light show is certainly in the near future. Hear what others have to say in Tampa Bay Illustrated, Tampa Bay Times, Live New Orleans.com, TampaGold.com, and JamBase to name a few.
