Michael Faubion. Guitar and vocals

Michael Faubion started messing around with his dad’s guitar when he was about 14. If he’d just knuckled down and taken lessons he might have gotten a lot better at it a lot sooner. But, no, he had to do it his way, arriving at a mixed-up style of honkytonk rock country folk and blues that somehow manages to define Detour as more than just another trip down memory lane.

Credits: Wrote, produced and directed "Greetings From Paris on the Kuskokwim," a CD collection of hysterical songs about Bethel, Alaska.

Tom Torvie. Bass and vocals

Tom Torvie was raised by Republicans in the Badlands of Dakota, but still became a country/rock/blues bass player—many years ago. Tom’s bass playing is not just low notes, it’s the foundation of the Detour sound. Without it, everything else would just fall over.

His first full-time gig was with a yodeler who had a repertoire of about 5,000 songs. He would start a song and, if in a generous mood, would tell Tom the key. Thus Tom learned early how to find keys with his ears.

Howard Okland. Percussion

Howard has a BA degree in Physics and a MS in Geology. He works full-time as a Geologist and teaches mathematics part time for a local university. He has been a ham radio operator for over 45 years. So what’s he doing hanging out and playing music with a pair of musicians like Mike and Tom? The simple answer is, “I like hitting things.” The complicated answer is “I gain a substantial quantity of pleasure creating delta functions in synchronicity with various sonic wave forms created by vibrating linear masses and columns of the atmospheric gases.” He plays the right amount of percussion on a snare drum, hand drum and hi-hat, too.

Doug Brown, Pedal Steel

Doug Brown mastered all the stringed and fretted instruments at an early age and over the years played in or near more bands than can be remembered or named. Clubbers and concert-goers in Oregon, California, Alaska, and places in between have been astounded. Now, after settling down behind the pedal steel he has found himself with Detour. Destiny is like that sometimes.