...whole life. Two weeks after he graduated from high school in Anchorage in the early 1980s, Emery hit the road as professional drummer. He spent a year playing the bar circuit before returning home, where he played in a series of bands, working...

...song-sharing network. It was Johnny Cash - backed up by the rock band U2. Music is in Dowd's blood. His father was a professional drummer and music brought the family to Juneau from Petersburg in 1967. Last weekend, when the Soundboyz played at the...

...song-sharing network. It was Johnny Cash - backed up by the rock band U2. Music is in Dowd's blood. His father was a professional drummer and music brought the family to Juneau from Petersburg in 1967. Last weekend, when the Soundboyz played at the...

...whole life. Two weeks after he graduated from high school in Anchorage in the early 1980s, Emery hit the road as professional drummer. He spent a year playing the bar circuit before returning home, where he played in a series of bands, working...

...grew up expecting to follow in his father's footsteps. "I thought I was going to be an artist. My dad is a professional drummer who traveled to Japan and Hong Kong to perform, and I started learning piano in third grade. Most of my uncles...