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Born in Boston and raised in Phoenix, singer+guitarist & songwriter
Jimmy Newquist launched the Oklahoma, USA-based Alternative-Rock band
Caroline's Spine in 1993. He teamed up with his college friend, Tulsa
native guitarist Mark Haugh and the two began to make music together.
Newquist got a record deal with Anza Records, located in Cardiff by the
Sea, California; he and Haugh spent 9 months in the studio and approximately
12,000 miles of driving back and forth from Los Angeles; the result was
Caroline's Spine's eponymous debut album, it was sent to college stations
across the country and went #1 in an upstate New York school.
Soon after that release drummer Jason Gilardi came on board, along with
bassist Scott Jones; in spring of 1994 Newquist with the band returned
to Anza for 3 days to record "...So Good Afternoon".
The group steadily built a rabid national fan base with compelling live
shows and after two more indie albums, "Ignore The Ants" in
1995 and "Huge" in 1996, the band was signed by Hollywood Records.
"Monsoon", Caroline's Spine's major-label debut, was released
in April 1997 and was essentially a compilation taken from the four independent
releases, plus the addition of one new song and a re-recorded version
of "Say It To You"; but it was " Sullivan" that moved
them into The Mainstream Rock Tracks chart at #23; the follow-up single,
"Wallflower", was practically ignored by radio and failed to
dent the charts.
After touring exhaustingly throughout Europe and North America performing
with bands ranging from 3 Doors Down
and Nickelback to Catherine Wheel, Better
Than Ezra and Aerosmith, in August
1999 the Tulsa rockers unveiled their sixth album in all, "Attention
Please"; the title-track hit #30 on Billboard's Active Rock chart
and "Nothing To Prove" peaked at #23.
Jimmy Newquist wrote 13 new tracks for the latest Caroline's Spine album,
which is called "Captured".
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