Goodbyehome

As a founding member of several successful Chicago indie rock groups guitarist/pianist/vocalist Greg Jackson Combs turned to focus on his new project, Goodbyehome in 2008. In 2007 he released 10 of the songs he had been stockpiling as the first official album with his previous group “The Apartments”, A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 2005-2007. The album saw Combs beginning to experiment with his own writing style and a variety of genres. His 2008 Sophomore release “The Hardest Parts” presented a much more refined and bare emotional sound which reflected an Elegant and Melancholy version of American Roots and Popular music. Critical reaction was mixed, and the album received play and review in the UK, Austria, Germany and Canada, as well as the states, though the vision at this time was still incomplete.

Lamented by the music press, and building off the momentum, Combs teamed with long time band mates Singer/Songwriter Jeff Brown and Violinist/Pianist Christine Knodle and along with a rotating lineup of cohorts drawn from the Chicago Indie Rock and Coffeehouse scene to form Goodbyehome in late 2008. Combs and company shine both as a Performers and Songwriters, The LP seems to Float compared to the members previous releases, with swirling and soaring strings, A Rootsy Swagger, and a new found Pop Sensibility.

Breathless, excitingly embryonic on stage, with a rare Folky wistfulness that makes your heart soar and drop simultaneously. Goodbyehome make the music that would accompany sad, fond memories of a road trip where, after driving for hours in the wilderness, you met a beautiful girl at a bar in the middle of nowhere, and spent your whole night with her, knowing you'd never see her again.

The band's songs range from upbeat pop to instrumentally lush melodramatic ballads, Goodbyehome unique lyrical approach to the angst and introspection common to modern rock, favors a storytelling approach. The band's songs convey tales ranging from whimsical "Bicycles" to epic "Impossible Light" to Psychedelic" Rain Dance" to the dark "Don't Break Down" while often invoking primal events and locations from the American Folk Tradition. The band continues to break through the chains of these comparisons to specific sounds by proving there vision to be true to itself through performance and versatility.