Dogs In A Pile – Friday

The Dogs employ a unified approach to performance and songwriting, crafting aural mosaics through adept instrumentation and humble precocity. As avid storytellers, they draw inspiration from personal experiences, balancing life’s foibles with ever-present youthful sanguinity.
 
Dogs began when Philadelphia University of the Arts guitar gun-slinger Jimmy Law began playing with young Joe Babick (drums), a student at the Count Basie Theater program in Red Bank, NJ.  Lightning struck when they were introduced to Berklee School of Music student and bass player Sam Lucid, who immediately suggested fellow Berklee student and keyboard player Jeremy Kaplan. The addition of fellow Berklee student Brian Murray (guitar) in 2019 made for the quintessential final piece in the Dogs’ puzzle. 
 
A string of successful local shows drove the development of a massive northeast fan base, affectionately known as the Dog Pound. The band’s astronomical growth culminated in an epic, sold-out performance at the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park during the summer of 2021. Armed with a fresh batch of new material, Dogs in a Pile is taking its perpetually evolving testament to the Great American Songbook on tour in 2022, visiting plenty of new cities and spreading good music and good energy to good people along the way. 

John Morgan Kimock is a composer and drummer whose work blends improvisation, texture, and song. He released his album Hikikomori in 2021 and frequently collaborates with the Philadelphia-based trio WCK (Winderman, Colman, Kimock), as well as Jason Crosby and William H. Travis.

John currently tours with Mike Gordon (Phish), Oteil Burbridge (Dead & Co, Allman Brothers) and has for over a decade.

Over the past few years, his drumming has brought him on stage with Thomas Bartlett, The Crosby Collective, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Stephen Stills, Father John Misty, The Boston Symphony Orchestra, Oteil Burbridge, Dave Schools, and many others.

Active in the Lehigh Valley/ Philadelphia and broader regional music community, Kimock is a fixture in the local scene, collaborating with fellow musicians across jam, folk, jazz, experimental, and roots-influenced projects.