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Pinmonkey
Origin	Nashville, Tennessee, USA
Genre(s)	Country
Years active	1998-present
Label(s)	Drifter's Church BNA Back Porch
Associated acts	Robbie Fulks Dolly Parton Pure Prairie League
Website	Pinmonkey.net
Members
Mike Crouch Michael Jeffers Michael Reynolds
Former members
Chad Jeffers Rick Schell

Pinmonkey is an American country music band formed in 1998 by Michael Reynolds (lead vocals), brothers Michael (harmony vocals, bass guitar) and Chad Jeffers (Dobro, lap steel guitar), and former Pure Prairie League member Rick Shell (drums, harmony vocals). Their first album, Speak No Evil, was released independently in 2002; the same year, they signed to BNA Records and released their self-titled album that year. It produced the singles "Barbed Wire and Roses" and "I Drove All Night", both of which charted on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks (now Hot Country Songs) charts. A second album for BNA was never released, although it did produce a chart single in "Let's Kill Saturday Night".

After the band left BNA, Shell departed, with Mike Crouch taking his place as drummer; Chad Jeffers also parted for Keith Urban's band. Reduced to a trio composed of Mike Crouch, Michael Jeffers, and Michael Reynolds, Pinmonkey released their third album (titled Big Shiny Cars) on the independent Back Porch label in 2005.

1 Biography
2 Discography
- 2.1 Albums
- 2.2 Singles
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Biography

Lead vocalist Michael Reynolds had moved to Nashville in pursuit of a songwriting career. After several years on the writers' circuit, he befriended brothers Michael and Chad Jeffers, as well as Rick Schell, a drummer who had previously worked with Allison Moorer.^[1]

The four musicians soon began performing together under the name Pinmonkey, which they derived from "And Maggie Makes Three", an episode of the U.S. cartoon series The Simpsons.^[2] After self-financing their debut album (Speak No Evil) in 2002, the group caught the attention of record producer Rick Alter, who signed them to BNA Records.^[1] A year later, the single "Barbed Wire and Roses" was released, peaking at #25 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts; it served as the lead-off single to their self-titled album, which saw release in early 2003. Its second single was a cover of "I Drove All Night", a pop standard originally recorded by Roy Orbison.

In 2003, Pinmonkey began to tour the United States, meanwhile working on their second album for BNA. Although that album's lead-off single (a cover of Robbie Fulks' "Let's Kill Saturday Night") had been released to radio, the band parted ways with BNA shortly afterward, and this album was not released.

Shell left the band in 2005, with Mike Crouch taking over as drummer; Chad Jeffers left to join Keith Urban's road band. The three remaining members — Crouch, Reynolds, and Michael Jeffers — were signed to a recording contract with Back Porch Records, with the album Big Shiny Cars being released a year later.^[1] This album produced one single in "That Train Don't Run", which was originally recorded and released as a single by its writer, Matraca Berg.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

Year	Title	US Country	US 200
2002	Speak No Evil
2002	Pinmonkey	17	126
2006	Big Shiny Cars

[edit] Singles

Year	Title	US Country	Album
2002	"Barbed Wire and Roses"	25	Pinmonkey
2003	"I Drove All Night"	36	Pinmonkey
2004	"Let's Kill Saturday Night"	44	unreleased BNA album
2006	"That Train Don't Run"		Big Shiny Cars