Max Holmquist was born in Keene, New Hampshire on June 19th, 1987 but moved to the plains of Nebraska at the age of 3. The calm, boring life of a small midwestern town drove him to pick up a guitar at the age of 15. Four years later, South of Lincoln started in 2006 as Max Holmquist's side project to a rock band called Traceback. It provided an outlet for some of the songs he'd written on guitar that didn't fit with his band. Starting with a post-punk/emo sound in the vein as Dashboard Confessionals, etc. somewhere along the line his music shifted with his musical tastes. With the introduction of Alt/Folk from people like Damien Jurado, Neko Case, M. Ward, Andrew Bird, Rocky Votolato, etc South of Lincoln made the journey towards storytelling and Alt/Folk Themes of alcoholism, heartbreak, love triangles, a sense of home, etc. run thick through South of Linoln's music. "I'm sort of obsessed with where home is and what makes a home and how many homes one can have and whether a place ever ceases to be a home." He started working on the album "Homes" in the studio a little over a year ago (Fall 2009). He had help instrumentally from John Feuerbach (from Bandit Sound/The Incredible Heat Machine) and Mat Hovanec (from The Incredible Heat Machine/Plan C Recording Studio) playing Accordion and Keys respectively. The album is scheduled to release January 19th, 2011. (Photos at right taken by Danni Hohensee (except photo with axe, taken by Jonathan Egan)) <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/South+of+Lincoln">Read more on Last.fm</a>. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.