"The brothers, Ryan and Jesse Dermody, can't help but grow songs from themselves, as living trees can't help but grow branches. They're real musicians." - Muckross Music Review

"When I found out these guys spend most of their time in wild nature, it didn't surprise me. They know how to get the wind ruffles of their hair into the sounds. Bring a flower to their show. Bring an impossible bottle of wind. Bring the flames in your eyes. Play your breaths like they were strings reaching toward the sun. Play your breaths like they were roots sprouting from the invisible tree of your existence. Admit that you can't see the tree because it's so amazing to be alive, and there's just these leaves called tear drops, called words, called skin; and what's underneath the skin pours outside the skin through the sounds. It all comes from the heart." -Diarmada Music Monthly

"An organic music with the taste of many soils, possibly tapped into from around the world, but also tapped into from the soul. The soul's soils and the nourishment of darkness found there. The soul's vast inner skies and the nourishment of light." - Handyman's Review of music and poetry

"The Blood.... reminds me of backwoods campfires, hangin' out with someone like Hank Williams." - Summitville Journal

Given a guitar by his grandmother when he was 15 years old, John Statz quickly put his background in music from playing the piano and trombone to good use. After playing in a few different bands, John began to delve into songwriting at the age of 19. Now 23, he has already played all over Wisconsin, as well as in 12 other states and the Canadian province of New Brunswick.

Since 2007 began, John Statz has already embarked on his first Spring Tour, visiting Dallas, Kansas City, and many more cities along the way, and recently won a MAMA award for "Folk/Americana Album of the Year" for his first album, "Dusk Came Slow".