More Bees With Honey
Soars High
Between 1985 (when he moved from Arkansas to Florida at the age of 16) and 2005, John Paul Soars played in bands that included names such as Raped Ape, Paingod, Burner, Wynjara, Malevolent Creation and Divine Empire.
Tag: blues
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Tab Benoit
Medicine
Telarc
Louisiana singer-songwriter/guitarist Benoit co-produced “Medicine” with Sweden transplant and longtime friend Anders Osborne, who also plays rhythm (on B.B. King’s guitar Lucille) and slide.
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Preservation Hall Jazz Band and Del McCoury Band
American Legacies
McCoury Music/Preservation Hall Recordings
Dixieland meets bluegrass: Right off the bat, the fact that both use banjo comes to mind. But imagining the result of such a union isn’t easy.
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Big Head Blues Club
100 Years of Robert Johnson
Ryko/Big
Big Head Blues Club is an incarnation of Colorado rock group Big Head Todd and the Monsters, augmented by Cedric Burnside and/or Lightnin’ Malcolm on five tracks, plus special guests Charlie Musselwhite, Hubert Sumlin, Ruthie Foster, B.B. King and David “Honeyboy” Edwards. The album was recorded at Ardent Studios in Memphis and produced by Chris Goldsmith.
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Michael Chapman
Trainsong: Guitar Compositions 1967-2010
Tompkins Square
In an online work-in-progress documentary about him, British folk “outsider” Chapman lists his early influences as Big Bill Broonzy, Django Reinhardt and jazz organist Jimmy Smith, the latter because “he’s like a self-contained bass player, and I try to do that on the guitar.”
