Embedded Reporter Filing Stories, Making Deadlines    Embedded Reporter: the Scoop Top to Bottom: Darrell Smith, Howard Lewis, George Passint “We tell stories about what we see and things that have happened to us,” says Howard Lewis. “They are snapshots from a personal point of view, but many of the experiences are universal in nature. Others are just plain funny. All sorts of people relate to the music.” The songs are rich in lyrical content. The music is all over the map style-wise including ballads, Broadway, film-tunes, rock, blues, country, folk, roots, Latin, and more. Vocal harmonies are high octane. Instrumentation is largely acoustic. “We do amplify as the situation warrants,” says Lewis “We’re not a ‘cover band’, although we do ‘cover’ a lot of great tunes. But we tend to perform them somewhat differently from the originals. Audiences can also expect to hear a broad range of original material in many different genres.” Contact: Howard Lewis embeddedreporter@hotmail.com (262) 573-0325 Lewis formed his first band, Alberta Blue, in 1971 shortly after returning from Vietnam, then toured the East Coast for five years. Along the way he began crafting material. “Songwriting and feature writing have been on the front burner ever since,” he says. George Passint, a Wisconsin native, has played in bands since high school in the late ‘60’s, playing bass, lead, and rhythm guitar. “I met Howard at Riveredge Nature Center. He was playing solo, and I thought it might be fun to see if we could collaborate. We’ve been performing together ever since.” Violinist and Percussionist Darrell Smith, a native of Chapel Hill, NC, joined Embedded Reporter a year later. According to Lewis, “Darrell sings harmony to my lead parts, and I return the favor when he has the lead.”