Satchel

Satchel is a band from Seattle, USA, formed in 1991, featuring Shawn Smith (vocals, piano and guitar), Regan Hagar (drums), John Hoag (guitar) and Mike Berg (bass) who replaced original bassist Cory Kane in 1995. Up to date, Satchel have released two albums, EDC (1994) and The Family (1996), with a new album entitled "Heartache and Honey" coming presumably 2010. Most of "EDC"'s song titles were taken from the characters names in the cult classic movie "Reservoir Dogs", one of the bands favourite movies. Originally, Satchel also had a saxophone player named Jefferson Bennett when they called themselves 'Bliss'. This was until they were met with a copyright name challenge. They relinquished the name to a 'Bliss' out of Canada thereby settling on 'Satchel' at the same time eliminating the sax all together. In early 1995, the bassist Cory Kane was replaced by Mike Berg because of personality conflicts. Eventually, Satchel had been folded into the band Brad with Stone Gossard and was not perform or record as Satchel until year-end of 2009 when the statement was released via Shawn Smith's website and MySpace page of the new record coming, that will be entitled Heartache and Honey. All original members of Satchel will be featuring on this album, excluding Mike Berg. In 2005, Brad released an album of previously unreleased tracks from both Satchel and Brad called Brad vs. Satchel. Satchel has their song 'Suffering' in the movies: Beautiful Girls, The Girl Next Door, and was on a One Tree Hill episode. Additionally, the song 'Walk in Freedom' can be heard in the movie Strange Days.