Rusty Willoughby


Rusty Willoughby is an American musician born in Staten Island and currently living in Vashon, Washington, a suburb of Seattle., he has been vocalist, songwriter and guitarist or bass guitarist for several Seattle based bands: Pure Joy, Flop, Llama, and Cobirds Unite. He also briefly played drums for the Fastbacks. He also played with Kurt Bloch of the Fastbacks, Jonathan Poneman, and Scott Sutherland in a Cheap Trick cover band called Sick Man of Europe, and appeared in the film Hype!, a documentary directed about the popularity of grunge rock.
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Musical style

In a 1999 review of Willoughby's self-titled solo album, Don Yates of KEXP-FM described his "Beatlesque songcraft" as "bring to mind the starker side of Elliott Smith."

Discography

Solo albums

Rusty Willoughby self-released, 1999)Filament Dust Cobirds Unite Adult Soft Record
  • ''Anti''

Solo singles

  • "Here Come the Weakened" / "And the World Moves On"

Flop albums

Flop EPs and Singles

  • The Losing End
  • Drugs
  • Anne
  • We Are You
  • Regrets
  • The Great Valediction
  • Act 1 Scene 1
  • ''Place I Love''

Pure Joy albums and EPs

Pure Joy Carnivore Sore Throte, Ded Goat Unsung Getz the Worm
  • ''Gelatin and Bright''