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WILLOWBARK!

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Orange County, CA

Status
Active

Years Active
Summer 2024-Present

Members

Rafael Carrera 

Joseph Hampson
Maddox Bain
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     WILLOWBARK! is made up of high school friends Rafael Carrera, Joseph Hampson, and Maddox Bain. They began by rapping off of free beats they would find off of YouTube. But they have since evolved into making their own music with instruments. They released their first single, Alumni, on October 17th 2024. It was then followed by their debut EP, WE ARE WILLOWBARK! on December 16th. The band played their first show with the Medicine Cabinet on New Year's Eve.

Discography

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Releases

Alumni (Redux)

Single - May 30, 2025 - 2 min

This song is a re-recording of Willowbark's first single! It's a song about 4th street in downtown Santa Ana, and will be one of many re-recordings and remasters of the first Willowbark EP to come out now that It is a more full band.

LYRICS:

There's a place we could go to After school, its true A place we could go to A place we could if it's cool With you And I'll never say goodbye From now until the end of time There's a place we could go to With no rules, just me and you A place we could go to As long as you think I'm still cool And I'll never have to ask why There's green & pink & blue & black and white Red and yellow Wrong, and there's right Why can't there be another time (Hey Hey Hey Hey) (Hey) (Hey) (Hey) (Hey) (Hey Hey)

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The Dobsonians

Single - February 28, 2025 - 3 min

This song is about Rafael's fall semester astronomy lab class. This is a single for a bigger upcoming WILLOWBARK! release

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LYRICS:

(This is a planet) Everybody looks like a somebody! Nobody looks like a nobody! Hey! Who wants to be a star? Hey! Who wants to be a star? ​ Telescopes reflect our homebody Begrudgingly in the shit (Hey!) Who’s gonna get real far? (Hey!) Who’s gonna get that start? ​ (The largest moon is Titan) (Saturn is 886 Million Miles) Cocaine in the glasses that I don’t need Rulers on ruling subjects You look at me like I’m rolled right up their sleeves Why are people so far away from me? Cocaine in the glasses that I don’t need I see the wavelengths leaving me You look at me like I can’t see Now, don’t you draw it out for me? (25...Years) Everybody looks like somebody! I know I look like nobody! (Hey!) Who wants to be a star? (Hey!) Who wants to be a star? (Hey!) (Hey!) (Hey!) (Hey!) (Hey!) (Hey!) (Hey!) (Hey!) Who wouldn’t punch that in its face? Stars never go at our own pace Stars never go at our own pace

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WE ARE WILLOWBARK!

EP - December 16, 2024 - 11 min

WE ARE WILLOWBARK! is the debut EP by WILLOWBARK! One single, Alumni, was released before the EP, which also featured a music video.

1. What Are We?

2. Alumni

3. Sick String

4. Gothard

5. Day by Day (We'll Get It Right)

6. Body of Water

LYRICS:

What Are We? ​ "Fuck!" "Move the milk" "-So it is milk!" "Ahh!" ​ "It's not gonna work with the wind?" "Is this shit out of fire?" "No It's the fucking wind man" ​ "Ah I'm getting the craziest angle!" "Lets go!" "Light your own fucking cake bitch" ​ "I gotta do a slow pan out Everybody Everybody when its time Everybody pan out slowly so I can get a close-up" ​ ​ "Ahh!" "You ruin everything!" "I know!" "Fuck you!" ​ "It's kind of my birthday" "This shit is never gonna fucking light Jesus Christ" "Try not to laugh!" "Ahh!" "Its just a little fire calm down" "Okay okay okay okay Get it-" ​ Alumni ​ Theres a place we could go to After school, its true A place we could go to A place we could if its cool With you ​ And I'll never say goodbye From now until the end of time ​ Theres a place we could go to With no rules, just me and you A place we could go to As long as you think I'm still cool ​ And I'll never have to ask why Theres green and pink and blue ​ Black and white Red and yellow Wrong and theres right Why can't there be another time? ​ F! ​ Sick String ​ They be like tough talk, But its coming from a tough man Only thing I fear is a buff man ​ My mama told me, "In this verse, dont be cussin'!" She said it might get redundant ​ So tell me, What the triple fuck's the cause for this distruction? Can we all just get to that lovin'? ​ Yeah The drums that you'll be hearin on the beat custom I'm in a spot I'm not accustomed ​ The hospital got another one I'm addmiting to hospitals like the rest of em' ​ give it a rest, um the hospice, um ​ Tell me why my bill is higher than the ceiling roof contracting contacts that I don't wanna talk to ​ The only thing I care about is where the beat is going off to Guitars my strong suit Kid yourself like Kid Rock do you’re like a See-ugh I saw this coming once you opened up the Smirnoff ​ It's WILLOWBARK! Wipe them mother-fuckin' tears off ​ Gothard ​ I will fill your tin can lunch box With a fucking nuclear bomb ​ Make you step into a puddle If you don’t know the words to this song ​ Running to my place now that you found out ​ And so you hit another face and now your back around ​ And then you gotta know who told you cause your hallowed ground ​ Oh no, oh god ​ Running in place now that you found out ​ And so you hit another face and now your back around ​ And then you gotta know who told you cause your hallowed ground ​ Oh man, oh wow ​ I know just where im going I don't know where I’ve gone ​ I know whats in my pocket I don't know what to section off ​ Running to my place now that you found out ​ And so you hit another face and now your back around ​ And then you gotta know who told you cause your hallowed ground ​ Oh no, oh god ​ Running in place now that you found out ​ And so you hit another face and now your back around ​ And then you gotta know who told you cause your hallowed ground ​​ Oh man, oh wow ​ Day by Day (We'll Get It Right) ​ Well my brain is stupid but my heart is pretty dumb and so I mix it all together so you get a headstart and I, dont know where I’m coming from I dont know where I got it from One of these days I’ll get it right I’ll get it right I’ll get it- One of these days, I’ll get it right (It wont be easy but day by day)(We’ll get by) (We’ll get by) (We’ll get by, We‘ll-We’ll get by) Well everytime I look up I was meant to look down, And when I draw squares they end up round Self depreciate, appreciation is a start and if I fell out of a plane, I would splatter on a cloud Because the ground isn’t for walking, it’s for drawing with a wheel And if you asked me how I was then I’d tell you how I feel Because even though I don’t get taxes or art I know every little something is enough to get a start And I don’t know where to go and I don’t know who you are And I only know that I, I, I I know that! I know that! I know that! One of these days, I’ll get it right (It wont be easy but day by day) (We’ll get by) (We’ll get by) (We’ll get by, We’ll-We’ll get by) ​ Body of Water ​ (Reverse) “Anyway, what have you learned in these four years?” “Its never too late to change, and every person is a body of water” “Aah!” ​ Alright, Alright! It takes a man to take another plan Takes a man to make another plan Takes another manCh-Check it out, you can do what I can’t Check it out, you can do what I can’t I don’t know what I am ​ (Reverse) “Actually, every person is seventy percent w- ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​

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