"ARP & The Nice Boys"

Hey there -  I'm Andy.  I'm a songwriter from Chicago.  I go by Andrew Robert Palmer (or ARP! for short), mainly because when I first started off playing solo (after the break-up of The Mother Z's, my first act with my sister), there was a guy also by the name of Andrew Palmer who played acoustic gigs around Chicago, and I realized I needed to differentiate when I started getting his booking emails.  Then I got kinda sick of writing out my full name all the time, so I started using "ARP!"  Anyway, I write lots of songs that are all somewhere within the folk/pop-rock realm.  I always think I'm more rock than I am, but my wife Molly assures me that I'm "more of a folk artist who uses rock instrumentation."  I grew up on a lot of 90's stuff, so if you like lo-fi home-recorded stuff or artists like Elliott Smith, Jonathan Richman or Ben Folds Five, then you'll hopefully like my music too.  I have a band called "the nice boys" (also named by my wife, on account of us all being... well, nice, polite boys, I guess), and I either play gigs with them, or I go solo/acoustic. I do lots of recording and I mostly play everything myself when I do, but I have been lucky to meet some awesome musicians in my time who have helped me out a lot on various records.  Anyway, that's pretty much it - I'm a songwriter, basically.  I keep writing songs and it almost kind of feels like I can't stop, but I love doing it and putting them out into the world.  It's fun and it's an obsession. Thanks for stopping by! I hope you listen and enjoy!