Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands

About Me

OK. Welcome to our Myspace page, aka "Ourspace." You can find out the whole history of my recording and playing career by visiting our website, www.laurielewis.com. So I just thought that, rather than repeat all that stuff here, I'd tell you some other stuff about us. For instance, I like walking just about as much as I like music. I think that I'd have been happy with a career as a walker, provided I could choose where I had to point my feet for eight hours a day, and could sing along the way.
Tom Rozum likes to draw, and he could probably have had some sort of career as an artist, if he'd just stop spending all his time obsessing about mandolins. But I guess that's what has made him the player he is. So that's good.
Todd Phillips is is the best person I've met at setting up a string bass. Somehow, he makes the fingerboard just right so that it produces the nicest growl. It takes him a long time to get it right, but when it IS right, well then you really have something fine, and I am addicted to that particular thump at my back.
Craig Smith is known as The Commodore of the banjo, but we don't know why. I think it's because nobody else was using that title,but maybe there's a deeper significance. Anyway, he's pretty-much "the best they is." Since he discovered the cooking channel a few years back, he's become quite the chef.
Scott Huffman is kind-of a Renaissance Man, and, within the band at least, voted the most valuable person to be stuck out in the woods with. He can find things on the ground that the rest of us just tromped over and never saw. That's why one of his many nicknames is Scout. He likes to play golf, hunt, fish, draw, and talk story.
Thanks for listening!
Laurie Lewis

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 12/03/2007
Band Website: www.laurielewis.com
Band Members: Visit our website, laurielewis.com, for our full tour schedule and music downloads.
Laurie Lewis: Fiddle, Guitar, Vocals
The Right Hands:
Tom Rozum: Mandolin, Vocals
Scott Huffman: Guitar, Vocals
Craig Smith: Banjo
Todd Phillips: BassBUY STUFF

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Influences: Bill Monroe, Billie Holiday, John Hartford, Vern Williams, Chuck Berry, the Stanley Brothers, the Carter Family, Kenny Baker, Chubby Wise, Curly Ray Cline, and on and on and on...
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Record Label: HighTone Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Wintergrass 2006., Vassar Clements tribute, Laurie Lewis Tom Rozum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmOIkBQ34Sw
Posted by on Sun, 10 Aug 2008 22:20:00 GMT

Bluegrass for the Greenbelt

On June 22, we (the Right Hands) will be playing as part of a concert to benefit Greenbelt Alliance here in the Bay Area. This group is involved in helping to fight the rampant swallowing up and pavin...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:05:00 GMT

Vaya con Rios!

Tom and I have finally nailed down our river trip dates for 2008. We will be returning to my favorite, quintessential Northern California river, the Tuolumne, on August 19-21, and then immediately dri...
Posted by on Fri, 23 Nov 2007 10:48:00 GMT

Californias burning

I have just returned from Southern California, where I spent a week producing a recording of singer Susie Glaze. It was a great week for me, working with Rick Cunha in his studio, and assembling a cra...
Posted by on Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:38:00 GMT

North Carolina

I have been in North Carolina now for over a week. The weather is beautiful, and I've been up early checking out the critters in the woods with my native guide. The new leaves are so tender and green...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:50:00 GMT

travels and travails

I just got home from a little trip to Nashville for a few days. Left home in Berkeley last Tuesday, after playing late the night before. Got to Denver, and my flight was delayed out of there. After wa...
Posted by on Sat, 07 Apr 2007 23:38:00 GMT

Spring?

It is springtime with a vengeance arond here in Berkeley. I think that's why I can't sleep. The earth is making too much noise. I'm going out to plant lettuce and water the beans. Seems like I have be...
Posted by on Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:32:00 GMT

first entry

March 13, 2007OK. Here I am eing dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st Century. I may enjoy this after awhile, but truthfully, I'd rather be out pulling weeds in the garden.I just returned yeste...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 08:12:00 GMT