Singer/Songwriter (for the Press)
Folk/ Acoustic/ Americana
Alexinder Gunn, a singer/ songwriter from Fredericksburg Virginia,
born in Aberdeen, WA has been all around the country, from singing on the street corner in Fredericksburg, VA to playing at many well known and respected clubs in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas, and Minnesota. He also has been a featured performer at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival, Carytown Watermelon Festival, the Carytown Wine Festival, and the Virginia state fair. He started playing Music when he was 16 years old “it was like I was bitten by some bug and music consumed my entire life like an illness.” Said Alexinder, and within 6 months of starting he was playing local open mics. By the time he turned 19 he had released an Album with a local band from Stafford, VA. titled “Mercy” And had been headlining shows for 2 years.
“This guy is a Real Folk Singer.” Anthony Fiumano
“A lot of people don’t got it man, they try, but him, he’s got it” – Randy Crouch
"His songs are insightful mood pieces that bring to mind other great songwriters, but are remarkable in their own way" -Joel Pomerantz (Songwriters Association of Washington)
On February 5th of 2008 Alexinder released his first solo album ironically titled ‘Folk Music is Dead.’ In true folk singer/songwriter tradition Alexinder plays topical and story songs along with songs of love, heartbreak, and bitter realizations. The album is full of powerfully poetic songs, with his hauntingly beautiful voice and brilliantly orchestrated melodies every line is like a brush stroke on canvas painting a picture in your mind.
Alexinder Gunn, 21 year old Folk Singer
-Bailey Morris
Alexinder Gunn - My Story
I wanted to play music since I was about 6 years old. I saw Garth Brooks and I wanted to play country music. I stayed up late on school nights in awe of this man running around the stage with his guitar.
I eventually got my first guitar, an old classical, on my 9th birthday. But I never took lessons and after awhile I fell away from music.
When I was 16, I joined a hard rock band as a singer for my friends, I apparently was no good , because i got kicked out. But dabbling in rock music made me want to pick up the guitar again.
My entire life changed when I heard "Hurricane" by Bob Dylan. After that I was folked out. I only wanted to listen to Dylan, watch Dylan, Be Bob Dylan, but through him I got into Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, and eventually Ellis Paul and Don Conoscenti. Ellis Paul and Don Con are more of those life changing musicians, as well as Jonathan Byrd, Jess Klein, and Townes Van Zandt.
So, I found myself at a little coffee shop in Stafford, Virginia. i saw a guy sitting inside playing guitar with a couple of people, and said to myself, i want to do that, so thats what i did. i put on a apron, became a barista extraordinare. Myself, Adam Dawson, Alex Culbreth, and later the J & B Blues Project created a music scene at this place, built it from the ground up. gave people the only place in town to hear acoustic music in a heavy metal / hardcore and emo music city. we did end up having some Rockers and electric guitars and i did stray from folk music having made a more or less rock cd with the owner of the shop. it was fun for a while but soon grew tired of the screeching, Ear drilling, mind numbing, over powering, too damn loud electric guitar that left the taste of 80's hair metal in your mouth. it got bad quick. finding out that i wasn't going to get paid for the album was enough for me. i left.
its been a few years now, i've worked hard put out a cd independently produced, recorded it myself played everything i could get my hands on. i've gone from washing cars, to mowing lawns, from my car blowing up before i could finish paying for it, to having a van to not having a van. i work two jobs, saving for my trip to Texas and Oklahoma with a borrowed truck. everything for a while looked like it was going downhill, until i found out that i was chosen to play at the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival 2008.
Now i do believe things are happening,
good things