So do Crenshaw’s neighbors, fans who frequently turn Everwilde’s high-decibel jam sessions into impromptu concerts. “We know we’re good enough to do this,” Crenshaw said. Crenshaw has two sons and Adam Drudge’s girlfriend also has two kids.īut all four men say their families believe in the band’s talent and are willing to make the necessary sacrifices to help them make it big in the music business. Both Nicholls and Shawn Drudge are married with 2-year-old children. Where does the band go from there? The ultimate goal is to sign a recording contract, but band members insist they’re not going to quit their day jobs and jump at the first opportunity that comes along.įor starters, they all have family responsibilities. “If we want to do this as a job, we need to do it now.”Įverwilde’s music already has been featured on “Red Arrow TV,” a national hunting show on The Outdoor Network.Įverwilde’s new CD, “Further Down the Line,” will go public during the band’s official launch party April 5 at Uptown Alley. “It was like, ‘We’ve done this, but we have to keep going forward,’” Nicholls said. The band finished recording it in one weekend and walked out of the studio with a renewed sense of purpose. Nicholls wrote all 11 of the songs on Everwilde’s debut CD. 14-16 at Richmond’s In Your Ear Studio – better known in the music industry as the studio that produced Chris Brown’s Grammy-winning CD in 2011. With help from a local investor, Everwilde booked a recording session for Oct. “It used to be that we’d call anyone we could think of, asking if we could come and play at their place,” Shawn Drudge added. On several occasions, fans asked band members when they were going to put out their first CD. The band has played shows at more than a dozen different venues in Chesterfield and throughout the Richmond area. “But when we get on stage, all that stuff goes away and it just clicks.”Įverwilde has been extremely busy since last spring. “When you take four different people with four different lives and collaborate on something, you’re going to have issues sometimes,” Shawn Drudge added. The good-natured back-and-forth sometimes turns into heated disagreements, but the guys never stay mad at each other for long. There’s never any favoritism, either at any moment, you never know who’s going to become the next target. When the members of Everwilde aren’t playing music, they’re usually busting each other’s chops for one reason or another. “We’re all like brothers … well, Jimmy’s more like our uncle,” Shawn Drudge said with a laugh. Like the Drudges, Crenshaw graduated from Manchester High, but 20 years earlier. There’s obvious chemistry among the bandmates, three of whom – Nichols, Shawn Drudge and Adam Drudge – knew each other long before they graduated from Chesterfield high schools in 2001. “The biggest thing is we don’t try to outshine each other.” “Everything just came together,” said Adam Drudge, who has worked to improve the band‘s Internet presence since he came aboard. Gregory’s departure created an opportunity for him to join a group interested in recording its own original songs and Drudge jumped at it. When Gregory left the band last year to take a job in Tennessee, Drudge moved over to the drums and his cousin, Adam, became Everwilde’s new lead guitarist.Īdam Drudge had been playing with a local cover band, but filled in with Everwilde on a few occasions. Three years later, they added Crenshaw on bass and high-energy drummer Rob Gregory. Nicholls founded Everwilde as a duo with longtime friend Shawn Drudge in 2007.
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