Deer Tick Live

Deer Tick is an American Indie Folk band from Providence, Rhose Island led by guitarist and singer-songwriter John McCauley. Deer Tick's music has often been described as a combination of folk, blues and country with a strong grunge influence. McCauley is known for his distinctive gruff-sounding voice.

The band began as McCauley's solo project in December 2004. Beginning his touring career with a lot of help from Brendon Massei (Viking Moses), McCauley had toured extensively across the United States by the age of 19. He released 3 tapes and numerous CD-Rs in this time period, and eventually settled into what is now known as Deer Tick. After almost one year of continuous touring McCauley came home to Providence, Rhode Island with a new found confidence and a number of songs including "Dirty Dishes", " Art Isn't Real (City Of Sin)" and "Ashamed".

Bassist Christopher Dale Ryan and drummer Dennis Ryan became official members of Deer Tick in mid-2007 while guitarist Andrew Tobiassen joined the band in August 2008. Keyboardist James Falzone played with Deer Tick off and on from 2006 to 2007 and Paul Marandola drummed from 2005 to 2007.

The group released its first studio album War Elephant on September 4, 2007. War Elephant was re-released by Partisan Records on November 11, 2008. In May 2009, the band was the first band profiled on BriTunes, the web-only music interview program hosted by NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams.

The band released their second album,Born on Flag Day, on June 23, 2009. The record was released by Partisan Records

Guitarist Ian O'Neil joined the band in August 2009 after playing with New Jersey-based act Titus Andronicus. As a third guitar player O'Neil frequently plays the acoustic guitar at live shows while McCauley and Tobiassen play electric rhythm and lead, respectively. Although on most of the bands more raucous numbers [such as "Straight Into A Storm"] he plays electric guitar. He also has contributed one of his own songs "Hope Is Big" to the band's repertoire, which debuted in the band's live set in September 2009.