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Smiley and the Lovedawg

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Steve and I have been playing together since Steve started teaching me guitar over 25 years ago. We started playing at keg parties, campfires, and lakeside get-togethers and still play all those kinda gigs in addition to weddings, coffee-houses, festivals, bars, old folks homes, and just about anywhere folks will listen (we're connoisseurs of the weird gig at this point.)We're lucky to have played with a bunch of our good friends in the folk-rock band, Exit 65, for over 20 years and are just about always in for some jamming with friends old and new. In fact, I think Steve would agree with me in saying that the good people we've met along the way have been the biggest payoff for all the time we've devoted to playing. We've got two CDs out (one available at CD Baby.com - the other soon to be.) It's too late to turn back now and, for better or worse, I think Steve and I will play together until one of us drops - I sure hope that's a long way off!!!

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Member Since: 27/08/2006
Band Website: http://www.smileyandthelovedawg.com
Band Members: Chris - Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals;Steve - Mandolin, Slide-Mandolin, Fiddle, Harmonica, Guitar, Vocals
Influences: All the usual and some unusual folk and folk-rock influences: Howard "Louie Bluie" Armstrong, Woody Guthrie, Dylan, Neil Young, John Hartford, Pete Seeger, Grateful Dead, Fairport Convention, Richard Thompson, David Bromberg, Arlo Guthrie, Henry Thomas, The Band, Billy Bragg. Many blues influences: Muddy Waters, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, Memphis Jug Band, Mississippi John Hurt, Willie McTell, Robert Johnson. Lots of rock and punk influences: Velvet Underground, David Bowie, Mott the Hoople, T. Rex, Sex Pistols, Iggy Pop. A bunch of country influences: George Jones, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Marty Robbins. Many local influences: The Mumbillies, Howard Hefner, Todd Steed, Rus Harper, Scott Miller, Briar Thickett. Like most folks raised around a radio or a record player, we have more influences than I could possibly list including all those old standards we learned from our folks, our televisions, or the variety shows of the seventies. I also better not forget to give a nod to Louis Armstrong, too - after all, we are from America.
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