Will Sprott (of The Mumlers)

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Will Sprott is the songwriter & singer of the musical combo the Mumlers. One of his great grandfathers played piano accompaniment to silent films in a small town in Ohio before the advent of the talkie, another traveled around Africa in the '20s & '30s with a band of three golden-voiced sisters playing a collapsable pump organ & singing gospel music with the financial backing of a wealthy poultry farmer. His great uncle was a prolific author & scholar of the paranormal who named the Bermuda Triangle. Many of the women in his family have been librarians, although one worked in a candy factory. Many of the men are war veterans or have worked on one side or the other of the legal professions, although one built small trees for scale models of urban environments.

He has released two records with his band: Thickets & Stitches (2008) & Don't Throw Me Away (2009). Since then he has spent a lot of time on the road zigzagging around the continent, singing songs. His musical travels have led him from sea to shining sea performing everywhere from the Warfield in San Francisco to the Bowery Ballroom in New York City & lots of watering holes in between, sharing stages with many of his favorite artists along the way. Without the ramshackle trappings of his band, the basic elements of words, vocal warble & vibrating guitar strings are more easily heard.

"Sprott is a writer's writer, turning glorious phrases and crafting storylines that employ classic sentiments and themes but tackle them with a unique touch that feels ancient and natural, as if he's got a playbook full of secret audibles that can be claimed for his own." —Sean Moeller, Daytrotter

"Will Sprott is the frontman for the Mumlers, San Jose’s most exciting musical export since the Count Five. As a solo performer, Will Sprott is a bit more subdued than the Beefheart inflected New Orleans vibe of his full band, but no less complex, freed to try his skillful hand at capturing the raw essence of 75 years of collected American pop music. " —Paul Koehler, Antenna Farm Records

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