My name is Alexinder Gunn,
I was born in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987. When I was 5 years old my father got a job in Washington D.C. so we gathered up headed east from a tiny fishing town in Grays Harbor to the hustle and bustle of Northern Virginia. My infatuation with music started with Garth Brooks, my Mother's favorite, I would sneak out of bed and stay up late on school nights watching Garth run around the stage on little static grainy television, dreaming it was me up there. I lost interest a few years later when I discovered Professional Wrestling which I thought was just the bees knees and I still do, but when I was about 15 my friends were starting a Metal band so I quickly joined up as the lead singer. They ended up replacing me because I am no James Hetfield. Soon after that I picked up an acoustic guitar and started writing songs of my own. Carving out roots of traditional folk music, Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly are the reason you are reading this right now. Folk music plays a more audible role in my style of playing but I have many influences that help create what you hear.
At the age of 17 I started playing in coffeehouses, restaurants, taverns, and festivals. I released my first full album titled "Mercy" in 2006 with a local rock band. In 2008 I debuted my first solo album titled "Folk Music is Dead." and started touring beyond the D.C. area. I have been featured at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma, the Sharps Sessions festival in Warsaw, Virginia, the International Folk Alliance Conference in Memphis, Tennessee, and many other Festivals and venues from upstate New York to Southern Florida, from Austin, Texas to Duluth, Minnesota. For the past year I have been living on the road all over the U.S. with no plans of stopping. Music is what I live for, and by the grace of God i have been blessed.