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Okkervil River
Taking their name from a short story by Russian author Tatyana Tolstaya,
Okkervil River emerged in the late 1990s to win a big following with their
dynamic indie rock, unusually wide-ranging instrumentation and thematic albums -
notably the breakthrough Black Sheep Boy. Singer Will Sheff and drummer Seth
Warren first met at school at Meriden, New Hampshire and formed Okkervil River
with bassist Zachary Thomas after they had found themselves in Austin, Texas.
They recorded several EPs as a trio before multi-instrumentalist Jonathan
Meiburg joined and the band made a splash with a ...
