My show is a one-man band playing blues/rock Rural Americana music on homemade instruments. In my act I do not use any electronic looping, it’s all me. I sing, play a cigar box guitar, pound a parade drum and shake a tambourine. I sound like Tom Waits and RL Burnside’s little brother.
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Price Range: $200 and up
Gig Length: 60 - 150 minutes
A totally unique performance using homemade instruments. A sound like no other, hand clapping' grooves and a voice that sounds like a gravel road. Head shaking and FUN!
Hey Music Lovers,
Quickly, in 2018 I received a book on “How to Build Homemade Instruments”, instantly I was hooked. It took a while to figure how to play the cigar box guitar, since I have been a blues club drummer for most of my life.
As a drummer, highlights of my career were playing weekly at the Kingston Mines with Les Getrex, with Glenn Davis a bunch of times and my band the Organgrinder’s Blues band. I also was the house drummer for many jams along the IL/WI state line.
Performed at:
Summer Fest
Chocolate Fest
Madison Blues Fest
Marquette Blues Fest
Juke Joint Fest Clarksdale, MS
Paramount Blues Fest
HOWEVER, I have turned over a new leaf!
Try to visualize a homemade 3 string cigar box guitar, a thumpin’ old parade drum, shakin’ a tambourine and singing with a gravely voice as if Tom Waits met Howlin’ Wolf, One man band style putting out a powerful full sound. No loops.
Gotta see it! Gotta hear it!
Minimal set up guitar, bass drum and vocals
I perform blues rock rural Americana songs and I also write some of my own material. Influential artists : RL Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Robert Belfour, Charley Patton, Howlin’ Wolf, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, Otha Turner, Sly Stone, Rolling Stones…
I have a small pa but would need a front of house pa for larger venues
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