Fuse Radio Live Podcast: Special Guests: Franki Lee
Three boys and one girl create the raw sound that is Franki Lee; Stacy K on lead vocals and guitar, Trent Baarspul on lead guitar, Beau Jeffrey on bass, and Ben Prohaska on drums. The band was begat from the vision and drive of singer and bandleader Stacy K and has since evolved into a must see band who delivers a powerful live performance.
The music began with Stacy, who got her start volunteering at shows with DEMO (diverse emerging music organization) and shortly thereafter began playing her own. Over the next year Stacy played regularly on her own with musical guests from time to time. It wasn’t until fall of 2007 that she found herself a “band”.
Franki Lee (previously Stacy K & the Groovestains) started rehearsing in an old dirty college house basement, pumping out new tunes and revising old. Stacy K started booking shows and the band played as often as possible. By the New Year, Stacy K put out her first (all acoustic/ solo) EP, Little Glass Houses and two short Midwest tours followed in support; one in March 2008, marking the beginning of Spring and another at the end of May 2008, closing it out.
After the return of the second spring tour, Franki Lee went into the studio to record their second EP, In the Country. Unlike the first EP (Little Glass Houses), In the Country is a full band EP, with a raw live feel. Soon after the recording Franki Lee went out on their third tour, hitting the deeper Midwest to places of Omaha, Kansas, St. Louis, and Nashville.
Since returning from their third tour, Franki Lee has been climbing the ropes of the Minneapolis scene and constantly reaching new fans. In November they got the opportunity to open for Grace Potter and the Nocturnals for two nights of their tour.
Frankie Lee has been evolving and writing new material and will be hitting the road once again in spring of 2009 with another Minneapolis favorite, Clawthroat.
