Whu Gnu was a folk rock band formed in Bedford, Texas

Bedford, Texas

Bedford is a suburban city located in northeast Tarrant County, Texas, in the "Mid-Cities" area between Dallas and Fort Worth. It is a suburb of Fort Worth. The population was 46,979 at the 2010 census...

 in 1993.

History

Jonathan Meiburg

Jonathan Meiburg

Jonathan Meiburg, born in Baltimore, Maryland, on March 1st, 1976, is a multi-instrumentalist musician and the lead singer and songwriter for Shearwater , a band he co-founded with Will Sheff in Austin, Texas. He also shared duties with Sheff as a member of Okkervil River...

 began Whu Gnu out of two previous musical ensembles: 'Mysterious Union' and the Lawrence Dale Bell High School Jazz Band. The original lineup of the band included Ken Evers-Hood, Joe Reeves, Bo Griffin, Mike Dow, and Jack Worthy. By the year 2000, the band had replaced Evers-Hood and Reeves with Lee Shields and Tony Rogers. Whu Gnu played numerous gigs in and around Texas with notable artists such as the Reverend Horton Heat, Okkervil River, and 'Party of Fives' Scott Wolf

Scott Wolf

Scott Richard Wolf is an American actor, known for his roles on the television series Party of Five as Bailey Salinger and on Everwood as Dr. Jake Hartman. Since 2009, he has appeared in the Sci-Fi series V as the morally ambiguous journalist, Chad Decker.-Early life:Wolf was born in Boston,...

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The band's first album Naked and Without Teeth, sold roughly 1000 copies before marriage and largess overcame the majority of the group's members. In 2003 Whu Gnu invited Meiburg to pursue his other musical outlets Okkervil River and Shearwater

Shearwater

Shearwaters are medium-sized long-winged seabirds. There are more than 30 species of shearwaters, a few larger ones in the genus Calonectris and many smaller species in the genus Puffinus...

 full time. Dow, Griffin, Shields, and Worthy are currently active in the Austin, TX music scene.