Formula Indie Sessions : Interview with EverGiven
What is your earliest memory connected to music?
Reply- I was 8 when I started playing drums and was inspired by Ringo Star of the “Beatles” from watching on tv on the “Ed Sullivan Show”. Drove my mom nuts I use to take apart those close hangers that had cardboard tubes and play drums while she ironed. I started taking private lessons fr5om Joe Pulice a renowned jazz local drummer and that led to being in the “Kiltie Cadets” junior drum & Bugle corps at age 10-13 and “Kiltie” senior corps age 13-21.
How did your passion for creating music begin?
Reply- After my drum corps and college days I was a primary drummer in the “Power Pop” cult that swept through the early 80’s in northeastern Illinois that was started by a band “Shoes” and I was the drummer for “Roc Sinatra” a band started by well renowned rock musician “Herb Eimerman” from recording artist “Hot Mama Silver”. We were popular, played live and got to record a 6 song EP at the “Shoes” world famous recording studio “Black Vinyl Records” in Zion Ill. with producers Jeff and John Murphy from the shoes. Other band members were Tom Rutledge, and Bob Stanley all went on for great solo careers and I continued in the music business recording with several other projects including 1 CD from Herb Eimerman “From Your Window”.
What’s the story behind your current music project?
Reply- Jason Crowden and myself (Stevie Fennell) recorded together in 2016-2020 with the band I formed “After Alice”. We recorded 3 albums and recorded with producer “Stuart Epps” who worked with “Led Zeppelin” and “Elton John” and produced i of our songs on our last CD. I was doing my own thing for 5 years and Jason had a family and a real job but we stayed in touch over the years in 2026 and an opportunity came up for a project I was just starting “Ever Given” so Jason and I went in an analog recording studio in Nashville where we recorded 9 songs, the first of which is “Fool” in radio play rotation on European Indie Music Network on Formula Indie.
How would you describe your sound to someone who has never heard your music
before?
Reply- I wanted a totally different sound to the industry standard of over processed digital compressed sound that is mostly common today but I felt our music was a lot more edgy, raw, wide open, natural groove, indie vibe that we created in analog recording and the difference is notable in all our songs. I guess we can call it “Modern Rock” but our sound is not like any one in the industry today.
What is one thing you’ve learned that completely changed the way you make music?
Reply- Working with producers Jeff & John Murphy, solo artist Herb Eimerman and world famous producer Stuart Epps that backing vocals really fill out the entire song and production is crucial to give the songs big open full sound that is lost in digital industry recordings today.
What tools, instruments, or software are essential in your creative process?
Reply- Its the little things that we do that make our sound so different. When we recorded in analog the strings on the guitar, the heads on the drums, mic placement, tube amps, wide open rooms with no muffle were the things we used in all our 9 songs that we recorded that gives us our unique sound.
Which indie artist or song are you loving right now?
Reply- Ever Given “FOOL”, there just isn’t any thing out there that is not sounding like something already done to death and the world needs a fresh new sounding band like “Ever Given”
How have your personal experiences influenced your music and artistic vision?
Reply- absolutely, they mostly come out in the lyrical form of the song but Jason is a melody maker and the songs he comes up with are just so original and that makes my job of production really easy.
What emotions or messages do you hope listeners take from your work?
Reply- I think we are putting out there a feel good vibe in our music that is natural and not robotic which is how our songs are produced.
What’s the most important lesson music has taught you so far?
Reply-concentrate on your own individual sound and production. Music is subjective and you will get rejected and criticized by the industry, just let the listeners and fans decide.
What is a dream venue or festival you would love to perform at?
Reply- Glastonbury Festival held at Worthy Farm in Pilton, Somerset, England.
If you could collaborate with any artist, past or present, who would it be and why?
Reply- Elvis, Paul MacCartney, Michael Jackson, Curt Cobane all of these artist’s started a music revolution that will be around forever.
Where can our listeners follow and support your music? (Website,Spotify, IG, links)
Reply- ReverbNation EPK: All Songs, Videos, Press, Pictures and accomplishments are in this link:
http://www.reverbnation.com/rpk/evergivenband
Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/evergivenband
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/evergivenband
Twitter:
YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/@EverGivenBand
Tik Tok:
Looking toward the future, what’s your dream for the next chapter of your musical
journey?
Reply- We want to release a single, cd, of these 9 songs in 2026 and Jason and I are currently writing new material for 2027 and beyond so we plan to be here for a while.
What do you hope listeners will discover about you along the way?
Reply- That we are approachable and that we would love to here what they think of our unique sound.
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