The Clockmakers began in the summer of 1996 in Reeders, Pennsylvania. Karl Liebman, a Miami Beach native, and Daniel Parker of St. Catharines, Ontario, met while working together when they discovered a shared appreciation for Neil Young, Partagas cigars, and long conversations about nothing.

Daniel was already an accomplished musician, having previously played with Ontario bar scene rock acts Buttermilk 5 and Grandpa. He lent Karl his old Takamine acoustic guitar, taught him a few chords, and before long, the two were spending evenings jamming with friends, coworkers, and anyone else willing to listen. 

Their friendship eventually took them to a small town in northeast Tennessee where they lived on a farm, played a lot of guitar and drank a lot of beer.  But small-town life soon shifted to Miami and later Toronto, where they shared apartments and continued writing and playing music. 

In 1997, Daniel introduced Karl to Mike Prentice, a childhood friend from St. Catharines and fellow alumnus of Buttermilk 5. The three quickly found common ground as musicians, forming The Clockmakers as Karl's original tunes began to take shape through a collaboration built on melody, storytelling, and a shared sense of humor.

Life eventually carried the band members in different directions. Daniel became a professional photographer and, with his wife, divides his time between Ontario and Mérida, Mexico. Mike leads a non-profit foundation and lives in Toronto with his wife and two daughters. Karl pursued a career in technology and now lives in Asheville, North Carolina with his wife and daughter.  They still head back to the same farm in Tennessee every year to pick some guitar and drink some beer.

Many of The Clockmakers' songs were first written in the late 1990s, but the band itself never really ended. Nearly thirty years later, they are still writing, revisiting old ideas, and recording new music shaped by decades of friendship, long roads traveled, and a dream first imagined on a Pennsylvania summer evening in 1996.