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In Between Two Places

If you have found this page, congratulations. You've found it, you've done it. My name is Andrew McCleskey. I hail from the wonderful area of unincorporated east cobb county, Georgia. Really a lovely place to be from, if only for the people. I graduated from Lassiter High School in 2003, and I am about to enter my last year at The University of Georgia. I probably sound like just another white male from Marietta, attending the University of Georgia on H.O.P.E scholarship, and well, that's just your opinion. My first guitar was a fender squire (it's like the training guitar) and the only reason I got an electric guitar was because all of my friends were getting them, and so that I could play Blink 182. Here is a quick background of my musical influences: K-5th Grade all I listened to was country (KICKS 101.5) Middle School I went straight into a beautiful mix of rap, and 90's rock. When high school came around I was listening to Pop Punk, laugh all you want to but, I eventually found the good stuff. Ben Harper, Iron and Wine, Ryan Adams, Whiskeytown, Sigur Ros, Neutral Milk Hotel, Built to Spill. I guess there is nothing spectacular there though, simply college rock, a mix between Folk, and Indie Rock.
With my own music, I had to categorize it into Folk and Christian, you decide though. I promise to only put up music I have created that is genuine, and from my heart. The greatest thing about music is that it exposes you for who you are, so again, you can be the judge. I hope that one day we start describing music by how much it makes you want to dance, because that is what music should do. It should make you want to move, and I hope that my music makes you want to move, even if its the slow rock back and forth like white people do in church (the hands in the pockets, humming along, smiling, looking around, wanting so badly just to let it all go).
Plane ride was written with a good good friend of mine John Matioli. I was telling him about how peaceful a plane ride had been when I was away from all the troubles in my life. It turned into a song on the front porch of our house in Athens, Ga. It's intimidating to be a musician in that city man. On the track you can hear the sound of percussion, and that is my talented younger brother, Taylor. Please, Please check out his page at www.myspace.com/taylormccleskeymusic you will not be dissappointed. You can actually hear the heartbreak in his voice, as one of my friends described after hearing his songs. He has a way with lyrics, and he is nothing short of absolutley real when he lets his voice go.
Thanks for listening, and thanks for reading this long blog, you didn't have to, but you did.

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