Member Since: 5/4/2007
Band Website: aceintheholeproductions.ca
Band Members: I am a SONGWRITER first, then PLAYER, then PERFORMER. I say that - not with a self-effacing slant toward the other two - but to acknowledge the drive or the source from whence the music arrives. Each musical nuance, style, live performance, genre, jam riff, lyrical muse etc. is synthesized and then crafted - sometimes spewed - into a song of my own making. I like knowing where it comes from but that is not always possible or even necessary. Every writer writes for themselves but not at the expense of others so my pencil scratches and idle noodling become songs when performed for others. That's what makes them whole; what makes them real. So, thank you.
Influences: In no particular sequence... Mississippi John Hurt, Jelly Roll Morton, dry martinis, Jack Teagarden, Leon Redbone, Rube, The Treehouse of Jimmy Domino, 'Chuck Taylor' All-Stars, Son House, single malt whiskey, Mark Twain, scratchy 78 records, Robert Johnson, Mr. Ramsey, espresso, Anne Marie, Edie's Hats, National guitars, Bacon & Day banjos, Paul Rishell, HB pencils, Count Basie, R. E. Phillips resophonic guitars, Duke Ellington, Roy Book Binder, Huckleberry Finn, George & Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Chris Smither, Minor 7 flat 5 chords, Phil Wiggins, David Olney, Dr. Frederick James Horwood, John Howard Griffin, Fab Four, long thoughts, Sleepy John Estes, 'twelve to six' curve ball (the big yakker), Chris Whitley, Del Rey, Bonnie Raitt, Thelonius Monk, Tom Waits, Golden Gate thumbpicks, my front porch, Geoff Muldaur
Sounds Like: Himself... on the following instruments:1936 National Trojan (probably Montgomery Ward mail order); 2003 R.E. Phillips tricone; 1923 Martin 2-17; 1928 Bacon & Day tenor banjo (open back); 6-string and 12-string guitars built by Shelley Sax in the early 1980''s; Lee Oskar harmonicas.
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