The Debut

The Stillmores' first public performance.

Millard Stillmore

(lead & rhythm diatonics)
Millard is descended from Scottish Presbyterians on his father's side and Druids on his mother's. His father apprenticed him to a brutal cloth maker in Sparta, New York, at age eleven to learn the cloth-making trade. He left after four months but subsequently took another apprenticeship in the same trade at New Hope, New York. He struggled to obtain an education under oppressive conditions, attending New Hope Academy for six months in 1999. Later that same year, he began to apprentice with Mattias Seydel of Austria, under whom Millard began to study harmonica and the occult arts. He succeeds his predecessor, Zachary "The Tailor" Stillmore. Millard is renown for his extraordinary vocal and instrumental skills as much as for his remarkable stature.

Lester (Les) Stillmore

(bass, chord)
A staunch proponent of the minimalist approach; "Less is (still)more" is Lester's mantra. It's rumored that he was trained in the musical arts by an Aberdeen and Rockfish Railroad Brakeman, and that he once shot a man in Reno. Raised in the Witness Protection Program from the age of 18 months, Les keeps to himself, preferring safe houses, hotels and the occasional abandoned warehouse or moving van to a more permanent address. Very little of any real substance has been documented about him.

Craven Stillmore

(lead & rhythm diatonics & chromatic)
A man of exceptional appetites, Craven typifies that classic Blues line "I just can't be satisfied". Born out of wedlock in Chicago, Illinois, the son of a seamstress and a sailor, he had a strict Hedonist upbringing. Craven earned an undergraduate degree in taxidermy from Wheaton College in Illinois, and a masters degree in animal husbandry from Johns Hopkins University. Prior to landing his first job in show business as a sound technician for punk bands in New York City, Craven spent several of his post-college years on the lam from the authorities over a misunderstanding involving a widow in Schenectady and her pet goose.