Dennis Driscoll

Northwest singer/songwriter Dennis Driscoll combines the past -- the plain-spoken earthiness of Woody Guthrie, the innocent exuberance of Buddy Holly -- with the present -- the confessional intimacy of Cat Power, the quirky complexity of Neutral Milk Hotel -- to create a whimsical brand of folk-pop that transcends easy labels and categorizations. Driscoll, who was born in the late 1970s, grew up in the in the scenic coastal towns of Ilwaco, WA and Astoria, OR, where he began singing and playing his original material -- drawing cartoons, too -- and had a radio show on Astoria's...