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The Doubting Thomas Band
The band toured extensively from 1990-2000;Reformed in 2009. Released five albums; Blue Angel, the band's first album, was produced by John Keane(Widespread Panic) with guest turns from Peter Buck and Bill Berry of R.E.M. Their second release, Two, features special guest Kristen Hall (Sugarland) and Emily Saliers (Indigo Girls) on the tracks "Tiny Lights" and "How High." Their 13-song release, Who Died And Made You King, was also produced by Keane. The record has been hailed as their best work to date.

Doubting Thomas performed for nearly one million people in a ten-year period in the United States and Japan. Opened for No Doubt, Lisa Loeb, Indigo Girls, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Hootie and the Blowfish, Live, Clint Black, Jennifer Nettles, The Murmurs, and many more.

Doubting Thomas is: Founding member Gina Stewart started the band "Fetchin Bones" now with her guitar and a batch of self-penned songs that drew on her many influences, from the folksy stories and celtic-tinged melodies of the Old South to the raging thump of the sound. With her music came a desire to create a band that was visually memorable as well as sonically, carried along by cascading waves of melody by "delicately intertwined vocal harmonies"; as noted by one reviewer.

But like a perfect picture without color, the core of the Doubting Thomas band sound couldn't be complete without the soaring vocal talents of co-founder Brenda Gambill, an extraordinary Generation-X poet and songwriter who continually tips the emotional scale with her powerful musical performances that include her masterful violin, harmonica and percussion skills. She's one of the lucky few in the business who can literally knock down an audience with a whisper.

Bill Carroll, bassist, vocalist and songwriter, has sung and played bass and lead guitar in bands from Ohio to South Carolina. He charted a regional hit in 1988, as a solo artist, with a song that was performed on Dick Clark's long-running American Bandstand television series. Several of his other songs have been chosen as finalists in international competitions, and used as soundtracks by the Voice of America radio network.

Matthew Davenport honed his drumming chops during his travels around the United States from South Carolina to California, banging on pots, pans, rocks, bongos or anything else that would make a sound. Now he joins his cousin (bassist Bill Carroll) in one of the tightest rhythm sections in the biz.

Multi instrumentalist and audio engineer Irwin "Virgil" Bostian lends his eclectic talent on guitar, mando, and most anything with strings to a wide variety of musical styles. Experiments with jazz to bluegrass have given Virgil a varied pallet to draw from, and a wide group of talented collaborators. Virgil's current challenge is to learn harmony singing from the best, Gina and Brenda of Doubting Thomas.

Discgraphy Blue Angel - John Keane Produced, Two, Cut It Out, Who Died and Make You King? - John Keane Produced, DT Live