Who is this Roy Peak anyway?         

"Roy is the definitive go-to guy for in your face acoustic rhythms and songs about love, death, and birds."
                                                                                                                                       --fan quote.

"Like a more edgier Steve Earle."
--Tami Kaye

"I’ve been working with Roy for a long time. He is the most creative bass player I’ve worked with. He will not accept standard tunings, round wound strings, or picks. And he’s as good a friend as he is a musician and an engineer. When we work in the studio, I rely on his ears more than my own. He can also write a damned good song."
--Thommy Berlin: guitar-incendiarist, songwriter
 

Preferring old beat-to-death P-basses with flatwound strings tuned down a whole step, Roy's bass playing has been described as "orchestral and driving" and "Entwistle's style with Klaus Voormann's tone." Roy says his influences were Rick Danko, James Jamerson, and John Cale as much as Kathy Valentine.

His solo material--where he puts down the bass and picks up his vintage Epiphone Texan--has been likened to Hamell on Trial, an angry Jonathan Richman, Paul Westerberg, and Neil Young. Live shows often showcase cover versions of songs by Liz Phair, Randy Newman, and The Minus 5.

Roy has helped design and build sound systems and equipment for numerous area churches, clubs and local sound companies as well as for Lucas Arts Films and Ringling Bros. Circus. If you've played on stage in any North Florida club or church in the past fifteen years you've probably used something Roy built.

Roy runs radical recording, a recording studio which he runs out of his house. He has produced CDs for Lauren Fincham, Troy Lukkarila, Terry Whitehead, an upcoming one for XGeezer and many more.

A selected discography can be found here.

Roy has written several book and CD reviews for various online publications and a few pieces of fiction--some of these are featured on this site under the "Writing" link.