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They are one of the best-known headliners on the jam band circuit.  Their uninhibited sound is a swinging concoction of swampy blues, progressive bluegrass, funky New Orleans strut, Southern boogie, honky tonk country, gospel, and good ol’ fashioned rock ’n’ roll.  Great American Taxi's music follows in the style of the New Riders of the Purple Sage, Grateful Dead, Wilco, The Byrds, and Little Feat.

 

Singer, guitarist, and mandolin player Vince Herman from Carnegie, Pa formed the band with keyboard player and singer Chad Staehly in 2005. Vince studied acting at the University of West Virginia and moved to Colorado to work on his graduate degree. He dropped out to join the Left Hand String Band with later became Leftover Salmon. Leftover Salmon became an popular Americana jam act and performed at the High Sierra Music Festival eight times, the Telluride Bluegrass Festival eight times, and the All Good festival three times, as well as gigging at Bonnaroo, Wakarusa, Dunegrass, Snowmass Mountain, Austin City Limits, Jazz Aspen, Beale Street Music and the H.O.R.D.E tour. the band went "on hiatus In 2002 when the band's banjo player Mark Vann died from cancer. Today, Vince fronts Great American Taxi.