Spanish for 100

Fusing the emotional honesty and twangy accents of alt-country with the angular, insistent guitar attack of indie rock, Spanish for 100 was formed in Seattle, WA, in the spring of 2002. Corey Passons and Ross McGilvary had recently retired their regionally successful group Preston Mill and were interested in a project that would give them more room to explore their interest in rootsier artists such as Neil Young, the Jayhawks, and Wilco. Passons and McGilvary met Aaron Starkey, a musician and songwriter from Chicago who had recently relocated to the Pacific Northwest. Starkey ...