Background
Born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and raised in the isolated mountain town of Bailey, Colorado, Porter began playing music at a young age, often acting as a sit-in drummer for his father"s biker bar band.
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Career
Porter"s records began to appear internationally after he signed to Camera Obscura, an Australian indie label who released his first proper full-length Civil Defense: Reverb Saved My Life (2002) as well as the disc Reconsidered (2001) by shoegazer band Phineas Gage, of which he was a short-term member. After moving to New York in 2003, Porter recorded a handful of discs:Lisha Kill (Camera Obscura, 2005), Maybe Waltz (Evelyn Records, 2004), and Skylan Mo (Asaurus Records, 2004). In 2006 Porter signed with Greyday Records, an indie label in Portland Oregon, who released the Die Wandaland LP, in September 2006.
The label is also releasing, as two double CDs, the bulk of Porter"s work from 2008, a year in which Porter recorded three full-length CDs (A Swan At Smiley"son
Cry Maine A River, Sing Maine A Raft. And Goodbye Pork Pie Heart) as well as an European Parliament (Darlene Evening United States of America).
The first of these discs, combining A Swan At Smiley"s and Cry Maine A River, Sing Maine A Raft was released in April, 2009. Porter began painting in the summer of 2006 while living in New York City, selling watercolor/crayon paintings in Union Square Park to make extra money.
By the end of the year he was painting full-time and continues to work consistently both through galleries and private commissions.
Membership
As a teenager Porter began to write his own songs, recording and distributing hundreds of homemade cassettes of wildly varying disposition and sound quality, both on his own and as a member of the hardcore art-punk band Neglected Lawn.
