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About Me

Crowfoot are a dark duo from the Soar delta. Hard-bitten desperate men with nothing left to lose they both have long histories as bar room blitzers and wrong side riffers.

In the music of Crowfoot they weld together juke joint rockers, cut throat murder ballads and sacrilegious gospel into a new sound as elemental and powerful as the sound of a sledge hammer on concrete.

Crowfoot are a raw and exciting blues duo in a delta style. From the guitar riffs and slides to the manic vocals they weave a dark tale of love, murder and religion.

Formed just under a year ago both have previous infamous careers as blues men. So it was written "It is only by knowing the past that we shall rule the future". So it shall be.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/14/2006
Band Website: preachingblues.co.uk
Band Members: GARY LEWIS-SLIDE GUITAR AND STOMP/ TRISTRAM HOOLEY-VOCALS AND HARMONICA
Influences: Oh we've got plenty of them. All the obvious ones, you know Son House, Johnson's R and T, Bukka White, Charlie Patton, Edward W Clayborn as well as some of the "new" guys like Rory Block, Kent Duchaine, Ian Siegal, Corey Harris, Entrance and Seasick Steve. Not forgetting Mud, Wolf, J Shines and Winter. But, we also like all sorts of other stuff like Tom Waits, Nick Cave, The Gun Club, the Rolling Stones, AC/DC, Black Crowes, T-REX, Bob Dylan, The White Stripes and on and on the list goes. So come to us for the darker delta blues, stay for the atmosphere and the weird songwriting and leftfield interpretations of other people's classics.
Sounds Like: HOPEFULLY ALL OF THE ABOVE!
Record Label: http://www.preachingblues.co.uk
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Bloody ’ell he’s blogging again

It has been a while my friends but you can't keep a good man down. Essentially I'm just blogging to say that Crowfoot are playing twice this week so if you haven't seen us for a while why don't you po...
Posted by Crowfoot on Mon, 25 Feb 2008 12:59:00 PST

A few things that I’ve seen that are worth looking at

It has been a while and despite the fact that I constantly blog in my head very few of them ever make it to the actual page. As I've long noted all of the best things happen in your head. Paul Simon o...
Posted by Crowfoot on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 02:27:00 PST

Who is or what is folk?

Just got back from the Broadstairs Folk Festival. An interesting experience and quite unlike the standard festival one. Broadstairs is a Victorian seaside town located on the east coast of Kent. It is...
Posted by Crowfoot on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 12:45:00 PST

Broadstairs

Hi I'm just off to the Broadstairs Folk Festival. See http://www.broadstairsfolkweek.org.uk/ Is anyone familiar with any of the acts? If so who should I see? Tristram Crowfoot...
Posted by Crowfoot on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 07:47:00 PST

Can’t stand the pressure?

I've spent the last few days rip roaringly high under the pressure of an inflamed sinus. I don't know whether it is just me but there is something thrilling about the way that your brain opperates whe...
Posted by Crowfoot on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:00:00 PST

Michelle Shocked

As I i-pod shuffled my way to work I heard a song called Homestead from Michelle Shocked that I dont't think that I've ever heard before. It reminded me of what an under-rated songwriter and performe...
Posted by Crowfoot on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:31:00 PST

I’ve been away for so long

I've been away for a while. Been on holiday. Been flooded out. Back to work - ho hum here we go. Crowfoot are having a few moments of introspection at the moment. Lots of naval gazing and rethinking. ...
Posted by Crowfoot on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:48:00 PST

A couple of cool links

Hi Check out the past with the Cyril Davis website and the hmmnn, hmmnnn future with The Forty Fours new site. ...
Posted by Crowfoot on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 08:39:00 PST

A gig to remember

Friday night and we were hitting the road and heading out to Coalville. Guitars and amps loaded up in a Vauxhall Astra it was all very rock and roll. We were booked for a support slot at the Queen Vic...
Posted by Crowfoot on Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:46:00 PST

The broken bridge

It has been a while since I last posted. But not so long since I last had a thought. I'll start by putting up a quick book review of a decent kids book that I finished a little while ago. Why are...
Posted by Crowfoot on Thu, 21 Jun 2007 08:55:00 PST