Lynn Breedlove - Andy Meyerson - Travis Andrews
Why I Like Dead Guys
Why I Like Dead Guys is the debut album by Trust Me, a new band featuring queer storyteller Lynn Breedlove, guitarist Travis Andrews, and percussionist Andy Meyerson. A satellite project of The Living Earth Show, Trust Me centers this first album on the unfathomable tragedy Breedlove experienced in 2020: the brutal murders of his father and stepmother by his stepbrother in their Grass Valley home. In August 2024, the trio recorded the project and built a live show that tells the story of grief, love, and growth over seven days in the house where the murder took place. Why I Like Dead Guys (Earthy Records) is set for release on all digital platforms on March 27.
"Breedlove writes for anybody who's experienced grief—or love or admiration, for that matter. 'Why I Like Dead Guys' suggests that art—in this case, storytelling and music—has the power to perform the psychological reorientation therapy is designed to accomplish. By conjuring the dead, he creates a musical autobiography defined by relationships. He does so communally, or intersubjectively, with musicians he's collaborated with for years. We don't get an explicit story of healing. We get a series of stories that add up to who Breedlove is now."
Psychology Today ‘Grief, Storytelling, and Identity’ Read the Article
“'Why I Like Dead Guys' braids grief with gratitude, finding room for humor, tenderness, and joy."
Mundane Magazine. Read the Interview
"What came out of the speakers, however, was a luminously detailed, sublimely tender meditation not just on his father’s murder and his tangled relationship with his stepbrother, but on many of the men—and other strong spirits—who Breedlove had encountered throughout his life...Looking back, that tenderness shouldn’t come as such a surprise from someone whose work has been steeped in searing honesty and radical empathy."
48hills ‘After brutal tragedy, Lynn Breedlove made a luminous album of memory and men’ Read the Article
Who we are
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It’s not an exaggeration to call Lynn Breedlove one of America’s most important queer artists and most influential living storytellers. From his formative career as the lead singer of seminal dyke punk band Tribe 8 to his work as a trans activist in San Francisco founding the nonprofit rideshare service Homobiles, to his Lambda Literary Award-winning book and solo stage production Lynnee Breedlove’s One Freak Show, Breedlove has used a singular voice to tell queer stories for over thirty years.
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Andy Meyerson is a drummer and percussionist based in San Francisco, California. He is the Artistic Director, co-founder, and percussionist of The Living Earth Show, one of the premiere experimental classical ensembles in the United States.
He is also the drummer and co-founder of queer nü metal collective COMMANDO, music director of renegade dance company Post:ballet, drummer for Russian feminist protest and performance art group Pussy Riot, the artistic director and CEO of uncompromising experimental chamber music record label Earthy Records, and a renowned solo artist.
Andy Meyerson has released two solo percussion recordings: “My Side of the Story,” a collection of percussion solos written for him by Adrian Knight, Jude Traxler, Brendon Randall-Myers, Samuel Adams, and Danny Clay on slash/sound recordings, and “Extra Time,” an album of percussion solos written for him by Sarah Hennies on Hasana Editions.
He is an endorsing artist for Spaun Drums, Innovative Percussion, and Marimba One.
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Travis Andrews is the co-founder, executive director, and electric guitarist in The Living Earth Show. In that capacity, Andrews' performances have been praised as “mind-blowing” and "a vanguard effort of new chamber music" by the San Francisco Examiner and "emotional, transcendent, and at times bursting with raw post-rock power" by the Charleston City Paper. In his work, he strives to use the tools of classical and contemporary music to foreground the voices and perspectives often marginalized by the tradition and its presentation.
Highly in demand as a solo artist, Andrews has been a featured soloist with the San Francisco Symphony, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Eco Ensemble, and the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble.
He has performed with John Doe of X, Bryce Dessner of The National, Terry Riley, & Kronos Quartet. A musical omnivore, Andrews also performs with avant-thrash trio Freighter, chambercore band miRthkon, and queer nü metal band COMMANDO.
Andrews has authored articles and books for String Letter Publishing and has been an artist in residence at universities and conservatories around the country. He is an endorsing artist for Fishman Transducers.
