Adam Herman’s passionate folk-rock music is inspired by his roots in a small western Illinois river town. Over the past decade his band the Slamming Doors has been a northern Minnesota powerhouse of high-energy acoustic and electric barroom Americana. Herman leads the group on rhythm guitar, with Tarek Makky on lead guitar, Alex Nelson on keys, Ben Anderson on bass, Matt Johnson on drums, and Matt Groom on percussion. The Slamming Doors have released three studio albums, the most recent, Brown Bears, came out in 2020.