Somewhere in the Middle
Who is Tin Man? Well Tin Man started in 2005 as a solo project for Rusty Parrish. Rusty started out as a singer in a high school rock band. He taught himself to play guitar and write songs over the years while playing with such notable Mpls bands as Two Minute Warning, The Hatfields, The Cactus thieves and Passionfish with great regional success. Rusty gave up the music business in 1995 to focus on his family and a career and relocated to the Seattle area. But once music is in your blood there's no getting away from it. Over those years away from playing live Rusty began writing songs again and had a strong desire to perform again. Out of necessity he started preforming solo around the Seattle, Tacoma and MPLS areas in 2005. After 4 years of playing solo and releasing 2 solo CD's ( Tortured hearts, Half truths and Observation 2007, Talking to the clouds 2009 on his own Vanity records label ) it was time for something new.
Rusty really wanted t...