BAND
WE ARE ECHO BRIDGE
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Echo Bridge
Gary D’Ercole and Jim McAuliffe are Echo Bridge. The group is focused on original acoustic music. Acoustic guitars, vocals, harmonica, great songs. That’s it. The sound is personal and emotional. Gary and Jim’s eclectic music tastes, from the Beatles to Ray Charles, from Neil Young to Bob Dylan, influence the songs they write and the way they sing.
Band Member Bios
Gary D’Ercole
Gary is a multi-instrumentalist, adept at drums, acoustic and electric guitar, mandolin, lap steel, and vocals. In the mid 1970s, he was a drummer for a three-piece rock and roll band called Hobo Toad that played all along the East Coast and up into Canada. In the 1990s he played for a blues group called The Medium Wallys, along with Jim McAuliffe. You can hear their album of original songs on CD Baby, Spotify, and Apple Music under “The Medium Wallys – Wash & Wear Blues”. In the 2010s, Gary played drums, mandolin, and lap steel with JackKnife Valentines, a group of four musicians (including Jim & Gene McAuliffe) that focused on original roots and Americana music. Gary has participated in numerous studio recording projects for all of the above groups, and several endeavors by Jim & Gene McAuliffe, contributing percussion and guitar work. Of late, he has been working on writing new songs and working on his lead vocals. Much of this work is exhibited in this new group, Echo Bridge.
JIM McAULIFFE
Jim handles vocals, guitar, harmonica, and percussion. He formed the Killer Buicks in the 1980s with his brother, Gene McAuliffe. The Killer Buicks released a CD in 1993 (available on CD Baby) and played many local clubs around the Boston Music scene, such as The Rat, Harper’s Ferry, The Tam in Brookline, The Channel, and TT the Bear’s in Cambridge. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Jim sang and played harp in a blues group called The Medium Wallys, along with Gary D’Ercole (Hobo Toad)on drums, Steve Satter (James Montgomery Blues Band, Park Street Under) on guitar, and Rich Gulden on bass. In 2006, Gene and Jim formed the group The Jimmy James Gang and issued a CD of original music in 2006 (Available on CD Baby and Spotify and Apple Music). (Jimmy James is a nickname for Jim McAuliffe, as is Jimmy the Throat.) This CD was produced by Gene McAuliffe, and contained original songs written by Jim and Gene. As NPR described the group in their review, “The Jimmy James Gang pumps their music full of horns, keys, funky rhythm guitar and bluesy vocals.” The CD, produced by Gene McAuliffe, was called “Welcome to the Real World”. In 2010, Jim and Gene formed an acoustic group called JackKnife Valentines, which consisted of Gene and Jim on guitars and vocals, Gary D’Ercole on drums, and Rich Gulden on bass. The group played many gigs around the Boston area, before the pandemic. Starting in March, 2020, during the pandemic, Jim recorded a song every day on his iPhone and posting it to Facebook and Instagram. Most of the songs were covers, but there were a number of original songs. He posted almost 200 videos over that two-year period, and increased his friends on Facebook to just under 5,000. Also, these songs got close to a combined 8 million views on Facebook.