The Semantics were a band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed by Jody Spence, Millard Powers and Will Owsley. Their music is generally regarded as power pop, combining elements of 70s pop and southern rock.
Jody Spence and Owsley began writing songs after a couple of years of touring with Judson Spence, Jody's brother. Jody and Owsley soon got publishing contracts with Sony Music Publishing which were facilitated by Scott Siman in 1990. In 1991, Si...
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The Semantics were a band from Nashville, Tennessee, formed by Jody Spence, Millard Powers and Will Owsley. Their music is generally regarded as power pop, combining elements of 70s pop and southern rock.
Jody Spence and Owsley began writing songs after a couple of years of touring with Judson Spence, Jody's brother. Jody and Owsley soon got publishing contracts with Sony Music Publishing which were facilitated by Scott Siman in 1990. In 1991, Siman attended a show in North Carolina where a band called Majosha performed, which featured Ben Folds and Millard Powers. Not long after that, Siman brought Folds to Nashville and Powers later followed. Siman furnished a small demo studio that the Spence brothers, Owsley and Folds would often share. Folds would eventually introduce Millard Powers to Jody Spence and Owsley.
Within a month of meeting each other, Spence, Powers and Owsley had written and recorded entire albums worth of songs at the Sony Tree studio, 7 of which would later end up...
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