There are several performers recording as Roy 1. Italo disco act from mid-80s by Ubaldo Zambelli 2. Reaching all the way back to
Bob Dylan and the Band's pioneering blend of mythic
Americana and shaggy rock & roll, alongside more recent points of comparison like
Built to Spill,
Modest Mouse, and
My Morning Jacket, Roy (a band, not a dude) blend spiky post-
Pavement indie rock with
folk and
country influences for a sound that's connected to the musical past but not beholden to it. For over a decade, singer and guitarist Brian Cook (former bassist for the bands Botch and …
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