In fall of 1991, David DeVoe drove out to California to bring back his childhood friend Malcolm Tent, who had been living in the San Francisco bay area for the previous few years.
Recruiting Andy Harris, who worked with DeVoe at a local record shop, to play bass guitar, the band began their life as a 3-piece backed by a drum machine.
The freedom of performing as a 3-piece led to new experimentation with sound and songwriting and in mid-summer 1994 the band released their third cassette, Deaf Child Blind, also recorded and produced by DeVoe at his Dingo's Kidney Studios with the help of Michael Smith (Fiction 8).
He recruited drummer Mark Kosta and bassist David Meyer for the new incarnation of the band, and they immediately began playing shows around the Colorado Front Range.
DeVoe's songwriting and musical history relied heavily on a classic country influence, and the band's new sound was enhanced with the addition of the steel guitar.
The follow-up release in early 2011 was titled Miserable,[3] and featured Benjamin Williams on bass guitar, replacing David Meyer in the band's line up.
This album continued the darker bent in the Franklins' music, gathering together songs that had existed before the global pandemic and written during those years.