Music:
Member Since: 5/31/2007
Band Website: famecast.com/pmvonkaenel
Band Members:
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Musical:
Every music genre from the Mississippi River Delta, Ella, Memphis Minnie, Gladys Knight, Ray Charles, Nina Simone, James Taylor and Van Morrison.
All the Troubadours - especially Tim Rose, Gram Parsons, Joe Walsh, Rufus Thomas, as well as, The Staple Singers.
My Granny - Opal Watts, My Brother -Frank Lawrence - in fact...my entire family & 18 years of accapella singing at The Church of Christ in Ravenden, Arkansas...every Sunday/Sunday Night & Wednesday Night.
Hank, Patsy, Billie, Bessie Smith, Carole King, All the Crooners, Kinky Friedman, Elvis, Rock-n-Roll, Stevie Nicks, CSN&Y.
Literary:
That would be Will Rogers:
"Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
Philosophical:
Lenny Bruce:
Guys are like dogs. They keep coming back. Ladies are like cats. Yell at a cat one time...they're gone.
AND...My Grandpa Babe:
"There's right and there's not right and that's it."
Chemical:
Nothing on prescription.
Nothing that's been imported in a mule!
Influences:
LOVE, LAUGHTER, LIFE, BEAUTY, LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS are the biggest influences in my life.
William Christopher Handy, Mamie Smith, Ma Rainey, LeadBelly, Charley Patton, Mississippi John Hurt, Blind Blake, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lonnie Johnson, Bessie Smith, Mance Lipscomb, Tommy Johnson, Reverend Gary Davis, Big Bill Broonzy, Sippie Wallace, Rice Miller, Blind Willie Mc Tell,
Son House, Skip James, Big Joe Williams, Mississippi Fred McDowell,
Big Maceo Merriweather, Victoria Spivey, Bukka White, Blind Boy Fuller,
T-Bone Walker, Howlin' Wolf, Robert Johnson, Big Joe Turner, Sonny Terry,
Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Pete Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson I,
Eddie Boyd, "Sister" Rosetta Tharpe, Robert Lockwood Jr,
Muddy Waters, Johnny Shines, David "Honeyboy" Edwards, Willie Dixon,
Memphis Slim, Brownie McGhee, John Lee Hooker, Elmore James,
Jimmy Witherspoon, Lowell Fulson, Albert King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, Jimmy Rogers, Dinah Washington, BB King, Jimmy Reed, Guitar Slim, Big Mama Thornton, JB Lenoir, Earl Hooker, Matt "Guitar" Murphy, Otis Spann, Hubert Sumlin, Junior Parker, Albert Collins, Byther Smith, John Mayall, Lonnie Brooks, Otis Rush, Freddie King, Little Milton, Junior Wells, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Fenton Robinson, Koko Taylor, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Dawkins, Johnny Copeland, Magic Sam, Luther Allison,
Roy Buchanan, Dr John, Lonnie Mack, Paul Butterfield, Jimi Hendrix,
Taj Mahal, Mike Bloomfield, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton, Duane Allman, Peter Green, Rory Gallagher,
Calvin Russell, Duke Robillard, Bonnie Raitt, Paul Personne,
Robben Ford, Walter Trout, Keb' Mo', Gary Moore, Ronnie Earl,
Robert Cray, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Melvin Taylor, Arthur Neilson,
Popa Chubby, Lucky Peterson, Bernard Allison, Jeff Healey, Corey Harris,
Eric Sardinas, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa, Shemekia Copeland, Mike Welch, Johnny Lang, Don McMinn, The Legendary Staples Singers featuring Pop and the one and only Mavis, Shawn Colvin, Nickle Creek, The Beatles, The Stones, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, All the Crooners, especially Sammy Davis Jnr. and Dean Martin, Andrea Bocelli, Jacqueline Du Pre, John Williams, YoYo Ma, Earl Klugh, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, My Granny Opal Irene Watts, My Brother Frank Lawrence and My Grandpa Babe and of course my Mom and Dad, Corbett and Carolyn Lawrence. I love my sister Dawn and she has been a wonderful influence on my life but, between me and you...you don't wanna ask her to sing. LOL You don't wanna test wits with her either 'cause she's the smartest person who ever drew breath!
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