California band Delta Spirit formed in 2005 when Jon Jameson and Brandon Young spotted Matthew Logan Vasquez busking in San Diego and the band released their EP in 2006 followed by their first album in 2007.
Each of the bandmates had been playing in bands in southern California and mostly hating it, but found a sound they could all like with the Delta Spirit mix of indie rock and alt country. Delta Spirit averaged 290 days a year on the road touring in support of that first album.
By 2012 Delta Spirit had moved from California to Brooklyn. In 2013 the band had their song ‘Running” included in the soundtrack for AMC’s The Walking Dead.
2014’s album Into the Wide was the best selling Delta Spirit album, but it also marked the end of the band, at least temporarily. After ten plus years together, the band announced an indefinite hiatus and Matthew Logan Vasquez moved on to a solo career.
2020s’ What Is There marked the return of Delta Spirit after a six year hiatus and during the COVID shutdown the group went to work on a new record. Released in May One is One explores life, with Vasquez explaining that “One Is One essentially says, ‘What is life all about? Here are some observations.'”
