Wooden Satellites is an independent band in Fort Wayne, Indiana
It started out with C.Ray Harvey and Andrea Harvey finding a way to keep playing the songs they had written in their previous band. Jon Keller, a member of that previous band, decided to continue playing guitar with them. As C.Ray began recording the songs and writing new ones to fill an album, it was decided that they should hook up with a drummer to help them perform live. Eric Frank was a friend of C.Ray's that also had an accomodating practice space, so it was decided that he should make the fourth member of the band. In early 2009, Steve Spears joined the band to cover more of the keyboard duties so that C.Ray could play more bass and Andrea could sing more of the songs.
The name Wooden Satellites was cast off by another musician who wasn't going to use it so the band took it, feeling that it best described the sound they were making.
Towards the end of Summer, C.Ray got very serious about finishing an album, so he spent most of August 2008 recording a debut, "Why Can't I Be Enough." The lyrical content of the album deals mainly with sacred characters and religious ideas explained with heavy doses of vulnerability and inadequacy. Musically it meshes classic pop songwriting with heavy rhythms, retro-synthesizers, and acoustic guitars.
In October 2008 the band played a couple of shows to start promoting the album, and on October 18 the band released "Why Can't I Be Enough" to local and online music stores. They are now a part of a co-op music label called Sixty Years War that involves other great local artists and some that have travelled far outside the area.
Wooden Satellites will continue playing shows as well as writing and recording material to fill another album. Check out our myspace page for upcoming shows or our label page to order the debut album "Why Can't I Be Enough.
