Music:
Member Since: 7/15/2007
Band Website: coming soon
Band Members: PATRICK GRIZZELL is a poet and songwriter who's shared stages and podiums with many poets and musicians who have inspired him along the way, among them Allen Ginsberg, Leon Redbone, Gary Snyder, Taj Mahal, Doc Watson, Ed Sanders, Robert Creeley and Anne Waldman. His major musical influences include Bob Dylan, Tom Waits, John Hammond, Hank Williams and Bonnie Raitt.
See more at myspace.com/patrickgrizzell
BRADY MCKAY is a singer who has performed with many noted traditional jazz players including Howard Alden, Harry Allen, Allen Vache, Duke Heitger, John Allred, Jake Hannah, Terry Meyers, Pearl Django, and The Black Dogs. Her vocal influences include Maxine Sullivan, Anita O'Day, Mel Torme, Blossom Dearie, Keelie Smith, and Ella Fitzgerald. Brady recorded five albums with The Wooden Nickel Jass Band, and has four solo CDs, including the brand new "Parlor Jam".
See more at myspace.com/bradymckay and bradymckay.com
STEVE BIRD is a bassist (he has a great old 1949 Kay upright...sweet) and pianist. Besides Junkyard Burlesque, he sometimes performs with the San Francisco based progressive jazz trio Monkey Si Monkey Deux. He lists among his influences Charlie Haden, Keith Jarrett, Ornette Coleman, Frank Zappa, the Beatles, Charlie Mingus, Bill Evans and Charlie Parker. He says of playing the bass: "It can really hurt your fingers if you play too hard, but my feet don't ever get blisters." He also makes a mean Old Fashioned.
Influences: Some of the writers who have informed this music: Tom Waits, Fats Waller, Bob Dylan, Lucinda Williams, Camille Howard, John Lennon, Hoagy Carmichael, John Coltrane, Townes van Zandt, Charlie Haden, Robert Johnson, Leonard Cohen, Jelly Roll Morton, Hank Williams, Duke Ellington, Jolie Holland, Sippie Wallace.Â
Sounds Like: A little whiskey early on a Sunday afternoon.
Record Label: Junkyard
Type of Label: Indie
