Music:
Member Since: 09/05/2007
Band Website: www.redhawkins.com
Band Members: Red Hawkins and Friends (the RHF Band) is Red on songwriting, guitars, harmonica and vocals, double "p" on guitars and harmony vocals, Theron on banjo, harmonica and harmony vocals, Uncle Vernon Jeeder on percussion, winds and harmony vocals, Tom on electric guitar and Yolanda on keyboard and vocals. We keep spare microphones open for other friends who sit in with the band and/or do their own tunes during the breaks between the band's sets.
Influences: Way too many to name, with more than half a century behind me. This is a short list from the top of my memory. Gehlek Rimpoche, Albert King, Albert Collins, Sonny Terry and Brownie McGee, Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite, Little Stevie Wonder, Nanci Griffith, Stephen Foster, Everything Motown, Hank Williams, Jesus y Maria, Willie Nelson, Lucinda Williams, Iris Dement, Gillian Welch, The Grateful Dead, Mazzy Star, Dave vanRonk, Maria Muldaur, Buffy St. Marie, Robert Zimmerman, Steppenwolf, Cream, Eddie Palmieri, Ralph Stanley, The Rolling Stones, Joe Pass, the Brecker Brothers, Beethoven, Bach, Bartok, the Cosmic Beam, Joni Mitchell, Shakyamuni Buddha, Keith Jarrett, Charles Lloyd, Chick Corea and Return to Forever, Taj Mahal, Toni Rice, Alison Krauss, Stephen and Ina May, Milarepa, Bill Evans, Michael White, Allen Ginsberg, Jack Dejeanette, Hot Tuna, Ornette Coleman, Norman Blake, Miles Davis, Bob Marley, Michael Peed, Gurf Morlix, Bill Monroe, Ricky Skaggs, Luke Hilton and the Bluegrass Partners, John McCutcheon, Trapezoid, The Clash, Mary Black, His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Claudia Schmidt, Loreena McKennett, Vas, John Lennon, John Fogerty, Mark Noffler, Neil Young, Jesse Colin Young, Dino Valenti, Van Morrison, Dolly Parton, John Cippolino, Jimi, Flatt & Scruggs, Merle Haggard, Bill Champlain, Duality, Hoolie, Zydeco Ziggie, Stonecross, Clear Light and more Clear Light. Not to mention the sound of my own hand slapping time on the steel stairway rail climbing the echo-chamber stairwell in Kroger Hall, finding a beat in the echoes of Will Scarlett’s harmonica.
Sounds Like: Red's voice has been compared by to that of Rambling Jack Elliot, Dave van Ronk, Michael Murphy, depending on which song he is singing.According that reviewer, "This is Tom Paxton or Tom Rush without the sugar-coating. Townes Van Zandt without the manic depression." Click here to read that complete review .
Record Label: RedHawkinsMusic
Type of Label: Indie
