Website: www.reverbnation.com/thewalkingsticks

Genre: Acoustic Rock

About The Walking Sticks

It’s there on the video. In 1996, at age seven, they shared the piano bench and played their original song. Four hands, two voices and one beautiful spirit. Fast forward fifteen years, listen to their new all original 14 song album, and one arrives at a simple conclusion; music this organically good could only come from a story like theirs.

The Walking Sticks Band is headed by Max and Spencer Ernst, 22 yr. old twin brothers from Silver Spring, Maryland. Since they were knee high they’ve been playing, singing and writing songs together, which has brought them to here, only the beginning. You may pick up on some of the embedded influences; Neil Young, Petty, Simon and Garfunkel, but there’s so much more. Their sound is roots based, wide open, traveling through to a new generation. The songs are immediate, real, and speak to us as if they’ve been in our heart all along. Songs about the moon and stars, a freight train, a subway train, the conscious, and falling in love upside down. Of the many instruments they played on the new record, one becomes most poignant. The old piano with the bench they shared at age five. Nothing’s changed. The Walking Sticks, twin brothers, one beautiful spirit.

Max and Spencer’s love of nature often takes them out on the trail, where inspiration for the name Walking Sticks was found. They currently attend the University of Maryland, majoring in Environmental Science.