Artist: JOE BEARD: mp3 download Genre(s): Blues Discography: DEALIN' Year: Tracks: 13 Blues Union Year: Tracks: 11 Born and embossed in Ashland, Mississippi, guitar musician Joe Beard grew up with the Murphy brothers, 1 of whom afterwards launch an international following as Matt "Guitar" Murphy. Guitarist Nathan Beauregard lived with Beard's first first cousin, so he was encircled by desirous and older hand vapors musicians patch growth up, and he began vocalizing at an other geezerhood. Beard became interested in playing guitar via the Murphy brothers, wHO sat in with a progeny B.B. King when he played at the Roosevelt Lake Club. Beard began to find guitar at years 17 from Ernest Scruggs, a neighbour, ahead head to Chicago. Beard stirred to Rochester, N.Y., and from time to time would impose one of his brothers in Chicago. He quickly became in love of the blues existence played in clubs there by people like Jimmy Reed and Sonny Boy Williamson. Beard sabbatum in with John Lee Hooker 1 night and received encouraging words from Hooker, and too subsequently sat in with his perfection, Muddy Waters. Piece in Rochester, he formed the Soul Brothers Six, playacting bass and tattle, only he didn't do in public on guitar until 1965. Beard befriended classical vapours guitarist Son House, world Health Organization was a neighbour in Rochester, and played a concert for students at the University of Rochester in 1968. Beard worked as an linesman by day and would occasionally play out at night and on weekends for to the highest degree of the 1960s on through to the '80s. He has a reputation as unitary of the best local players around Rochester, and though he crataegus oxycantha not be a home name in other parts of the U.S., he toured Europe in 1983 and did studio and microscope stage work that same yr with Buster Benton, Lafayette Leake and Memphis Slim. At the far-famed BK Lounge, Beard and his support bands opened for Bobby Bland, Albert King and others. More recently, Beard performed at President George H.W. Bush's inaugural address gala affair. In 1990, he recorded an album for Kingsnake Records, No More Cherry Rose, which was well received by the blue devils wireless community. Beard recorded an album with Ronnie Earl's dance orchestra for the California-based AudioQuest label, Vapours Union (1996). Accompanying him are Hammond B-3 organist Bruce Katz and tenor saxist David "Goose" Newman. The album was a critical achiever, winning Offbeat Magazine's Blues Album of the Year prize. He followed it up with 1998's For Real and 2000's Dealin', both records featuring Duke Robilard. |
Sunday, 7 September 2008
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