A veritable "musical group of the nations", the band's classically trained double bassist spent most of his childhood in southern Italy, Italia Meridionale, while it's fiddler (classical composer and son of famed Austrian fine artist, Gottfried Helnwien) was brought up along the breadth of Europe, from Ireland to Austria. Their guitarist and vocalizor, J. Green grew up on the outskirts of Bixby, TX where he left school at an early age to pursue some of the finer things in life.