Fossil Creek Band Stories
  • "Stories"
  • Blanket of Stars
  • Keeping Better Company
  • World in a Cup
  • The Bittersweet Waltz
  • The Other Side
  • Songs From Home
  • Waitin' on the Daylight
  • Winameg Breakdown
  • All the Love I Had is Gone
  • Isaiah's Run
  • Songs from Home
  • Steel working man
  • Hearts that wouldn't break
  • Old Dirt Roads
  • Maumee River Winds
  • Up this hill and down
  • Carry me over
  • It's you
  • Leaving Charlottsville
  • Songs From Home
  • Blanket of Stars
  • Blanket of Stars
  • Stories
Biography
Jan Hudson: Jan plays banjo for the band and has been involved in bluegrass music since the early 1980's. She has played guitar and bass in a couple of bluegrass bands and also repairs acoustic instruments and does much of the promotional work for the band. A professional photographer by trade, Jan has owned her own photography studio since 1973, and has photographed over 3,000 weddings and over 25,000 senior portraits. Music is a wonderful outlet and haven of "wonderfulness" for her. She is also an author. Jan lives in southeast Michigan, loves to garden, fish, work on old cars, and try anything at least once. She is one of the original members of the band and feels absolutely blessed to be a part of something so special.

Tom Galbraith: After becoming interested in vocal music while in high school, Tom began to play the guitar by learning to play folk and southern rock tunes. Through the next several years, while playing and singing in church productions and praise teams, Tom began writing songs and fell in love with the story telling process of songwriting. His first songs were written for a church musical called, "The Fourth Wish", and were primarily gospel tunes. In 2002, after several more years of playing with various church related musical groups, he began performing with the gospel group, B.O.B., (Brothers of Bluegrass), where he found a new love in bluegrass and bluegrass gospel music. He continued writing and singing and playing mandolin with BO until 2006, when they disbanded and began his history with the Fossil Creek Bluegrass Band. Tom is a retired school teacher and guidance counselor and lives in Wauseon, Ohio, with his wife. He is an amazing luthier and builds beautiful mandolins and guitars.

Dave Borkowski: Dave started playing music at the age of five, when he picked up his first guitar. He grew up with the music of Flatt and Scruggs, Chet Atkins, Johnny Cash, Hee Haw, Elvis, and on and on, so bluegrass music was in his blood. In the 1980's, as a high school student, the 80's rock and roll music took over his life and he started a successful high school band and morphed into a hugely successful rock band called, Uncle Knuckle Funk. UKF played original music and was on the road from 1994 until 2004. In 2006, by happenstance, he ran into the Fossil Creek Band while they were playing a gig at the Toledo Zoo, and the rest is history. He went out, bought his first Martin and after jamming with the group a few times, ended up joining and has added a lot of dimension to the group's music. He is a fantastic picker and singer. Dave is a auto body man at one of Toledo's best body shops and lives in Toledo with his wife. He has a son Kelsey, who is living in Nashville and playing with a group there. Dave has written several of the songs that are on the "Songs from Home" cd and is a prolific song writer. His hobbies include a Harley, nuff said.

Gil Evans: Gil comes from a bluegrass family, is brother to Ernie Evans, and is one of best bass players in this neck of the woods. Not only does Gil play a mean doghouse, he also helps out with promotion work. An excellent musician, he truly "gets to the bottom of things".

Darrell Wagner: Darrell is bluegrass fiddler personified. Not only does he make the fiddle sing, he also has a wonderful voice. Darrell has that down home high lonesome voice that has added so much to the group. Darrell hails from Monroe, MI.
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  • Members:
    Jan Hudson, Tom Galbraith, Dave Borkowski, Krista Solars, and Jerry Spitler
  • Sounds Like:
    Pretty much like us...
  • Influences:
    Bluegrass, Original, Gospel, Folk, Americana, Country
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    03/21/13
  • Profile Last Updated:
    08/14/23 15:20:50

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