4 LETTER WORDS HAS GONE THROUGH SOME SERIOUS TRANSCENDING, SOME SERIOUS COMINGS AND GOINGS, AND THEN THIS AMAZING EVOLUTION.
FOUNDING MEMBERS GREG ANTHONY (FORMERLY OF STAR TRACKS ENTERTAINMENT FAME), AND RICH POSTON (FORMERLY OF MARYANN AND THE PROFESSORS AND GENESIS TRIBUTE SENSATION CINEMA) PUT THEIR MUSICAL TALENTS TOGETHER IN DEVELOPING A SOUND THAT WAS BOTH FRESH AND UNIQUE. COMBINING THE SOUNDS OF LEGENDARY GROUPS SUCH AS THREE DOG NIGHT AND VAN MORRISON, A MAINSTAYS OF TODAY SUCH AS JOHN MAYER AND LOS LONELY BOYS TO CREATE AN UN-4-GETTABLE SOUND OF ITS OWN. THEY BEGAN THIS JOURNEY WITH A DREAM, A LOT OF HOPE AND DETERMINATION, AND A BAD FIRST RECORDING AMIDST THE SOUNDS OF QUESTIONS OF COFFEE NECESSITY AND THE CLINKING OF COFFEE CUPS.
BUT THERE WAS STILL SOMETHING MISSING...
ALONG THE WAY, THEIR JOURNEY LED THEM TO BEING REACQUAINTED WITH AN OLD FRIEND, BASSMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE, DAVE GILMARTIN, HIMSELF OF "RETROSPECT" FAME. DAVE ADDED HIS BLUES AND CLASSIC ROCK INSPIRED TALENTS IN BASS LINES AND HARMONIES, AS WELL AS HIS SONGWRITING SKILLS TO MAKE THIS A VERY DETERMINED THREE HEADED MONSTER LOOKING TO TAKE OVER THE MUSICAL WORLD.
THEY WERE EVENTUALLY JOINED BY POSTON'S FORMER CINEMA BAND MATE SEAN MOEN WHO LENT HIS AMAZING SKILL TO THE RHYTHM SECTION OF THE BAND, GAVE THEM SEVERE DEPTH, AND ON HELL OF A BUILDING FOUNDATION FOR THEIR TREMENDOUS BLEND OF STYLES MAKING THIS BAND SOMETHING SPECIAL NOT TO EASILY BE FORGOTTEN.
FRESH OUT OF THE STUDIO WITH THEIR FIRST ALBUM ENTITLED "4LW", 4 LETTER WORDS ARE NOW ON A MISSION TO INFECT THE WORLD WITH THEIR SOUNDS.
ITS ABOUT TIME SOMEONE BROUGHT BACK THE SOUNDS OF YESTERDAY WHEN MUSIC AND LYRICS REALLY MATTERED AND MEANT SOMETHING! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THESE FOUR BOYS FROM ILLINOIS HAVE DONE!
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