Member Since: 10/3/2006
Band Members: Henry Berry (slide guitar, vocals). . . Charlie Rossiter (guitar, vocals, occasional harp). . . Both Henry & Charlie co-author the songs for Whiskey Bucket Blues Review. . . Frequent Guest: Jack (guitar--often electric; harp; occasional vocals and percussion)
Influences: Henry's main blues hero is Son House. He is also influenced by the other legends of Delta Blues and slide guitar masters such as Robert Johnson and Charlie Patton, Mississippi Sheiks, Blind Willie Johnson,Tampa Red,Mississippi Fred McDowell,Blind Willie McTell, James Houston Davis, Blind Lemon Jefferson. He also acknowledges Chris Walz,Willie Nelson, Mississippi John Hurt. . . . . Charlie admires Lightnin' Hopkins guitar work and for vocals leans toward rough-edged singers like Charlie Patton and Howlin' Wolf. Both Henry and Charlie hope they might someday write a song as good as Blind Willie McTell's "Statesboro Blues."
Sounds Like: Some songs of the Whiskey Bucket Blues Review sound as if they might have been written in the 1920's. Others are reminiscent of the 1950's golden era of Chicago electric blues (Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon) that inspired the Rolling Stones and other musicians across the sea to save rock and roll from degenerating into pop pap.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None