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Don Haupt

I want to be a musician when I grow up.....

About Me

Foot-stompin', guitar smackin', screamin' and hollerin' delta blues. No froofy singer-songwriter tearjerkers thrown in between tracks....just blues. Some folks calls it roots blues, some calls it folk blues, some calls it delta blues, but everybody calls it blues. Done old school like it should be, one man and an acoustic guitar.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 1/14/2007
Band Website: donhaupt.com
Band Members:Don Haupt, Left Foot, Right Foot
Influences: hard sweaty work on Mississippi river towboats, Son House, Robert Johnson, John Hammond, Rory Block, Alvin Youngblood Hart, , the summer bluesgrass festivals at Grassy, The Tennessee Gentlemen, Dave Van Ronk, Leo Kottke, Carbondale Illinois, Charley Patton, really strong coffee..the kind of stuff that tastes like it's been on the burner all day, Pink Floyd, Bukka White, Catfish Keith, dirty truckstops, Doug MacLeod, Corey Harris, old Allis-Chalmers tractors, when the Mississippi flooded in 93' ..
Sounds Like: The kind of stuff you heard on the streetcorner that time you took the kids to Memphis. .
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: None

My Blog

new photos added

I finally got around to adding a bunch of pics to my page today.  There's even some shots of my semi from my truck drivin' days.  The studio shots were done by a fellow named Keith Cotton wh...
Posted by Don Haupt on Fri, 02 Feb 2007 07:00:00 PST

Hello Portland/Longhaul Blues

For folks that have wondered what happened to me over the past couple of years.....I was pretty active in the music scene in Northern California and then I moved to Tacoma, WA awhile back for relation...
Posted by Don Haupt on Sun, 21 Jan 2007 08:18:00 PST

Haiku from Highway 20

    Cross the yellow line, Bumpity, bumpity, bump, Get back in your lane.
Posted by Don Haupt on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:08:00 PST