Named after the term for kids raised by wolves in the wilderness, the spark for Seattle indie rockers Feral Children was originally ignited in Maple Valley, WA, a five-and-a-half square-mile woodland town. Bassist/vocalist Jim Cotton and guitarist/vocalist/percussionist Jeff Keenan met while in junior high school there, and played together for the first time during an afternoon of plucking grunge songs on acoustics to a crowd of one: a horse on a neighbor's farm. Using music as an escape from the boredom of their surroundings, the two picked up guitarist Josh Gamble and keyboardist Sergey Posrednikov to form their first band, Blood Alley Accident.