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About Me

Randy plays bass, guitar, piano on his songs (All the King's Horses), circus whistle, coconut shells, jingle bells, tambourine, Vibra-slap, fake keyboard drums, real drums, mouth trumpet (makes a sound like a trumpet but without a trumpet), air auto-harp, sings, and writes songs.
Mackenzie plays piano on her songs, accordion, bass, guitar, melodica, circus whistle, tambourine, Vibra-slap, and Randy-slap when he gets too silly. She sings and writes songs as well. We live in northeast Georgia, and have been married and living happily ever after since May of 2003. Our music is a combination of 50's rockabilly, 60's (and 70's) pop, 70's rock musicals, 80's elevator music, 90's radio static (usually better than what was on the radio), and 00's t.v. commercial jingles, with a little bit of jazz, Central Americana(Randy's from the deep south- Costa Rica), and good old fashioned carnival music thrown in for fun.
(Home-Made)MUSIC VIDEO! Click picture below. It was made by Mackenzie with love.
Click on the image above to see our home-made MUSIC VIDEO for Song of Sixpence. Hope you like it.
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/6/2005
Band Website: 4and20blackbirds.com
Band Members: Randy and Mackenzie Chester

Influences: *Mackenzie's Influences:*
Edie Brickell, Suzanne Vega, Nanci Griffith, Eisley, The Sundays, Sixpence None the Richer, Buddy and Julie Miller, Patty Griffin, Iris Dement, Van Morrison, The Beatles, Norah Jones, Brian Wilson

*Randy's Influences* (musical and otherwise) :
Beatles, young Elvis (Rockabilly era), Brian Wilson, Bob Marley, J.S. Bach, James Jamerson, Motown, The Police, Mackenzie Chester, Van Morrison, the psalmist David, Keith Green, Toshiro Mifune (favorite actor and the baddest samurai ever), Stevie Wonder, Jellyfish, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, Pedro the Lion, John Williams, Suzanne Vega, Sunny Day Real Estate, u2, The Sundays, Samwise Gamgee, Queen, G.F.Handel, Akira Kurosawa (favorite director ever), Sam Cooke, some Journey, the Funk Brothers, Emilio Garcia (my musical hero in my childhood who lived with us), Christopher Parkening, early Petra, the Hothouse Flowers, the Wailers, some Kansas, A.D., Rodgers and Hammerstein, Seth Irby, Buddy and Julie Miller, Further Seems Forever, the blind swordsman Zatoichi (who in one episode sliced a burning candle in half vertically, leaving two halves of the wick still burning, while his foes looked on in terror), W.A. Mozart, but most of all Jesus who died in my place, who rose again, the firstborn from among the dead, who because he sacrificed himself to pay for our sins, God the Father has exalted him to sit enthroned at His right hand; and has now given him a name that is above any other name I have listed or could ever list as one of my influences.
Sounds Like:

fun!
Record Label: what's a record label?
Type of Label: None

My Blog

"ALL THE KING'S HORSES"-OUR NEW SONG!

Dear friends,Randy finally finished recording "All the King's Horses". You can hear it on our page and even buy it (details below). It's the first song of the new record we're writing. Here'...
Posted by 4 and 20 blackbirds on Mon, 23 Apr 2007 06:19:00 PST

Jesus in Japanese

His name is Y'shua ha-Mashiach in Hebrew, Iesu Kirisuto in Japanese, Jesucristo in Spanish. Many know about him, but how many really know him? He is Jesus Christ and the Bible says "there is no other ...
Posted by 4 and 20 blackbirds on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 12:38:00 PST