Hailing from Nashville, Crumbsnatchers’ catchy songs echo the wit of Pixies and Talking Heads,
backed by the fervent force of Beastie Boys. Their contagiously immersive music has a habit of
crushing your inhibitions into a fine paste and then painting the word “PARTY” on your brain with
it.
Frontman Samuel “Guetts” Guetterman pulled the band name from an experience in 2007,
when, at 16 years old, he was sentenced to a year in a faith-based juvenile detention camp, in
Griffin, Georgia. While enduring widespread physical abuse and abhorrent, moldy, living
conditions (due to non-existent judicial oversight), Guetterman and the other boys sang in a
touring church choir as examples of “reformed” rebellious teens. “Crumbsnatchers” was a
condescending nickname the staff gave the boys when they sang. Secular music was
contraband in the program, but a few months in, a fellow student smuggled in a CD player and a
copy of Radiohead’s In Rainbows, which the boys listened to while hiding under their beds.