Cyndi Harvell grew up in the deep, deep South where people eat fried catfish and grits and drink sweet tea -- not iced tea, sweetened -- but sweet tea. Her Barbie dolls sang musicals, and she sang along with the various pop princesses of the time -- Tiffany, Paula, Janet, Madonna – and danced around the living room with her friends. Young Cyndi also liked to climb trees, create secret clubs with the neighborhood kids, and sold seashells from the driveway.

Fast forward to 1999, when Cyndi took her little Yamaha off to college in the mini-music-mecca of Athens, GA, she met a friend who helped her to form her first band. Terrified, shy and lacking confidence, she played some open mics with her very first full-band shows to responsive crowds. For the very first time in her life, Cyndi felt like she knew where her place was in the world. After a couple years, she recorded her first album and built up a little following.

In the fall of 2004, Cyndi sold her belongings at a flea market and headed West. It was the best decision of her life. Upon starting up a band again, she lucked out by finding Mike Stevens and John Howland. It was like reuniting with old friends, meshing together like peanut butter and jelly and Wonder bread. They played around the San Francisco Bay Area, as an acoustic trio, eventually landing at Ex'pressions College for Digital Arts to record a demo they could sell at their shows. There they met producer Jack Douglas (Aerosmith, John Lennon, Patti Smith, the Who) who took an immediate liking to them, and sent them on to local producer Jim Greer, who in turn adopted them like stray kittens. Hungry stray kittens.

After mixing their Ex’pressions demo and getting to know them a bit, Jim decided to sign them to his local label, Fortune Records, and record a full-length album. He helped transform their little baby songs into grown up songs, and in March of 2008, Cyndi and the gang recorded their album "The Night Turned to Song" in Caspar, California - in a studio by the sea. That album led the path to be included on the Bay Area KFOG's Local Scene 5 CD and to be featured on their morning show, in addition to being played on Americana radio across the U.S. and Europe. They played San Francisco's prestigious Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in October '08 and the Gilroy Garlic Festival in '09 (over 100,000 attendees!).