ONE BLACK LUNG's current lineup was formed in 2003 in Austin, Texas to record, perform and promote our first digital release, Wheel of Style. We have a great time playing music together and, best of all, we're all in it for the same thing - easy money, lots of unsafe sex, and drugs. Ah, c'mon, you'd be so bored right now if we'd said, "the music". Here are some bio bits about us: 

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Jerell Lambert  [co-founder/composer/guitarist/vocalist/keyboardist/producer]

 A native of Los Angeles, Jerell began playing piano at age four before branching out on a musical path littered with ukeleles, guitars, recorders and five-string banjos. Happy to be the sheep noir of the family, he worked and borrowed his way through three music degrees, stopping with a Doctorate in Composition after being told there was no SuperDoctoral program to keep him safely aloof from the real world. After writing a lot of notey art music, from a piece for carnival barker and piano to a programmatic symphony on his years at the San Francisco Zen Center, he returned to his roots and began writing eclectic lyric songs and instrumentals for ONE BLACK LUNG. 
Jere'll's music is featured on network and cable TV shows throughout Canada, on a haiku DVD in Japan, and in films such as Texas Chainsaw Massacre II.   Musical influences include Bill Evans, Miles Davis, Adrian Belew, Stravinsky, Beatles, Bob Marley, Earl Scruggs, Alan Holdsworth, Joe Pass, Peter Gabriel, Bonnie Raitt, Elvis Costello, Crowded House, John Ashcroft's Barbershop Quartet, and any piano performance by Condi.

Carrie Miller  [co-founder/cellist/fretless bassist/vocalist]
Carrie is the girl and musician extraordinaire of the band. When not directing her middle school orchestras, co-running her wedding music business at www.hydeparkstrings.com, or playing cello with the Mid-Texas Symphony, Carrie somehow manages to find the time to weave her cello, fretless bass and voice into the coal-encrusted tapestry that is ONE BLACK LUNG. With a Master's in Cello Performance and a BA in Music Education, she knows her stuff and provides focus and musical clarity for the three ADD-addled males that make up the balance of OBL. Most important, she's cute  and has a voice that even Dick Cheney could love (Note to Dick: You can't shoot a pretty voice in the face.).

Brian Collins  [composer/guitarist/vocalist] 

Brian Collins is actually a stage name taken to alleviate the pain of the childhood asskickings he received due to his given name --- Beetem Daley. It seems his father, Reverend Bob Daley, felt that spoiling the child should never be an option. Brian plays best, virtuosic some say, when not surrounded by people...like in a closet. His background in early televangelistic music can be heard in his reluctance to go above middle C or play in a minor key, unless it's an altar call. He also eschews any danceable time signatures, adhering to the hummable adage "if the hips move, I'm doomed".
These days his interests have turned to more intellectual pursuits, like learning to read. Actually, this bio was written by James Frey. Brian's goal is to be reading at a 3rd grade level by next year so he can dive headlong into creation science. In the meantime, One Black Lung uses his skills to sweeten the area around mid C with a near-tuned guitar and to clean up after them when they leave a gig. He's got a strong back.

Jimmy Holloway  [percussionist/vocalist]

Jimmy hails from the beautiful mountains of extreme Southeast Texas (Beau-mont).  From there, he slowly migrated westward, landing in Austin by 1993. Quitting guitar lessons twice by the age of 12, he eventually turned his attention to drums (no notes to remember!) and subsequently played skins in several garage-bound bands before landing gigs with Austin bands The Runes, Spue, and now OBL.  A radio and vinyl junkie, when not grinding his teeth to the beat of whatever song last stuck in his head, Jimmy spins his old LP's backwards in search of hidden messages from Dog.