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Schwalbe

Ain't nothin' but the straight and natural Blues

About Me

I've been playing guitar since 1968. I've been seriously studying Blues since 1974. I've played and/or recorded with Blues DeLuxe, RJ Mischo, Mojo Buford, Lazy Bill Lucas, Baby Doo Caston, Sonny Rogers, Percy Strother, Rockin' Daddy & The Rough Cuts, Texas Red, Cool Disposition, The Blues Kings, Lynwood Slim and many others. I currently work with three bands, Rockin' Daddy & The Rough Cuts, Cool Disposition, and The Blues Kings. I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
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Member Since: 11/24/2006
Band Website: theroughcuts.com
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Influences: Muddy Waters, T bone Walker, Freddie King, Otis Rush, Robert Lockwood, Luther Tucker, Eddie Taylor, Magic Sam, Hollywood Fats, Bill Jennings, Tiny Grimes, BB King, Jimmy Reed, Little Walter, Sonny Rogers, Mojo Buford, Baby Doo Caston, Lazy Bill Lucas
Sounds Like: Sounds like you should go to http://groups.myspace.com/bluesrealdeal and post your shows, find music live and recorded, recommend music for others to check out, etc. Let's see if we can build a myspace Blues community.
Record Label: Blue Loon, Cold Wind
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Some days

Some days the Blues just rears up and kicks your ass.Some days there's no consoling my soul.Some days I wish I'd never played a guitar.Some days festival promoters are the bane of my existence.Some da...
Posted by Schwalbe on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:43:00 PST

The International Blues Challenge

Memphis:We got into Memphis at 2 PM on Wed. Jan 31.  We had dinner at the Blues City Cafe', good ribs.  Caught a local band called Delta Highway at the Handy Blues Hall Wednesday night, go...
Posted by Schwalbe on Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:01:00 PST

New tune

I've posted a new song.  It's from 1989, a Blues DeLuxe cover of  Muddy Waters' number.
Posted by Schwalbe on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 04:37:00 PST

Myspace Blues group

I've started a myspace group in hopes of  taking better advantage of the myspace networking possibilities.  It's at http://groups.myspace.com/bluesrealdeal .
Posted by Schwalbe on Sat, 23 Dec 2006 08:44:00 PST

New Stuff

I've added some old photos to my page.  Yeah back when I had hair ya know.There's a new song as well.  This one 'Running In Circles' is a Mickey Bauer tune from the up coming Cool Dispositio...
Posted by Schwalbe on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 09:53:00 PST

A good week

So I could spend an hour whining about all the clubs that have closed or dropped Blues...I could.But ya know what?  No WHAT?I got an email from T. Albert Lloyd (a fine musician, if you like yer B...
Posted by Schwalbe on Fri, 01 Dec 2006 06:13:00 PST

My Discography

There isn't really a place to put this on the regular site, or at least I can't figure it out yet.  So it's here for now.Discography, Dan Schwalbe: Guitar 1989  Blues Deluxe: "Reet, Petite, and...
Posted by Schwalbe on Fri, 24 Nov 2006 02:32:00 PST