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Chris Berry

I couldn't eat another bite I'm absolutely stuffed

About Me

I've played guitar since 1989 and banjo since a couple of years after that, mostly country blues and old-time, pre-bluegrass country music. I have a day job too as a newspaper editor, which used to be a night job. I have a college degree. I like old British TV, some new American TV, old game shows, sci-fi, fantasy and mystery books, plus a bunch of other stuff. I have a cat.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/20/2006
Band Website: Uh, this is it, dude.
Band Members: Sometimes just me, sometimes in Sausage Grinder with David Bragger, Bobby Reed, Margaret Royall and Matt and Josh Orkin, and David and I played with Greg Graffin on his solo album.
Influences:Charlie Patton, Sleepy John Estes, Dock Boggs, Uncle Dave Macon, Blind Blake, Blind Willie McTell, Rev. Gary Davis, Mississippi John Hurt, Mance Lipscomb, Skip James, Fiddlin' Doc Roberts, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Son House, Jelly Roll Morton, Sam McGee, Doc Watson, Riley Puckett and Asa Martin (two greatest old-time backup guitarists ever), Frank Hutchison, Jean Bosco, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Eddie Lang, Mel Durham, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Lonnie Johnson, basically any country blues and/or old-time country music and jazz before they took the melody out.
Sounds Like: A very echoey synthesizer accompanying two million robots singing exactly a flattened fifth out of tune.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None