Henry and June

Soledad Brothers (band) grew out of a punk blues band called Henry and June, which was active from 1994 to 1996.  This name is evidently a reference to American writer Henry Miller and his wife, June Miller – or more likely, an erotic film featuring the couple called Henry & June that is based on a book of the same name, Henry and June by the famed French diarist Anaïs Nin. 

Johnny Wirick met Benjamin Smith when he joined Henry and June where Smith was already the drummer.  They later formed a two-piece band called Johnny Walker; Wirick then took the name Johnny Walker as an alias, while Smith began calling himself Ben Swank.  In 1998, they started using the name Soledad Brothers. 

(February 2015)