Joe LeDoux and Colin Dempsey are Half-Full, exactly half of The Amygdaloids, a NY City based band composed of scientists who play songs about love and life peppered with nuggets about mind and brain and mental disorders. The band lands somewhere in the sonic space between country, rock, and psychedelia, with influences that include: The Byrds, Dylan, Hendrix, Pink Floyd, The Beatles, and Wilco. Joe LeDoux, the song-writer, hails from Eunice, LA, and also cites Rod Bernard, The Greek Fountains, Little Bob,  Bobby Bare, Johnny Cash, and Dennis Magee as having intangibly shaped his perception of music. LeDoux and Dempsey play acoustic versions of The Amygdaloids songs from their studio albums.

Band site:  www.amygdaloids.com

Quotes:

“Joe LeDoux reminds me of Roger McGuinn in his intelligent, laconic delivery.”

Rosanne Cash, Grammy Winner, author of ‘Composed.’

“The Amygdaloids offer a unique interpretation of what it means to think, and in these songs examine the scientific basis for our artistic impulses….the lyrics speak to the layman in all of us, our shared sense of cortex and medulla, and the way music makes our backbone twitch, our butt funky, and our feet keep a-slappin’ on the floor, whether we’re thinking about it or not.”

Lenny Kaye, guitarist for The Patti Smith Group.

“This event is the part of the SMART festival, October 24-25 (Please visit smart.louisiana.edu for more information. The shows are open to the public (no cover)”