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The Venisons

Booze, Blues & Barbeque

About Me

Over football and beer, The Venisons were formed. Tired of the temperate singer/songwriter folk scene, N.L Sideburns and El Racoon-o combined their North Mississippi Blues, Rock and Punk influences. With the latest addition of Dan Jacobs (otherwise known as TalenteDan) and his broken organ and booming bass, the bands sound has been best described as "Blue-Wave" music. Some have described it as 'room clearing rock'. EL RACooN-o describes it as 'music you probably won't like'! You be the judge of that...but whatever it is, it is a shot of Wild Turkey in a sea of Coors Light that is the music scene today. WORD!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/14/2005
Band Website: hahahahahahahahahaha....
Band Members: N.L. Sideburns - guitar and vocals. EL RACooN-o - drums and vocals. Dan 'TalenteDan' Jacobs - bass, organ, talent.
Influences: Barbeque, McKinley Morganfield, Hound Dog Taylor, R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, The Black Keys, Fat Possum, The Swingin' Utters, John Lee Hooker, Z.Z. Top, T-Model Ford, Elmo Williams, Buddy Bolden, The Bell Rays, Electric Eel Shock, Nina Simone, Soledad Brothers, The Riverboat Gamblers, Groovie Ghoulies, Bob Seger, Neil Diamond, Tom Jones, early Rolling Stones, The Stooges, Desmond Dekker, Nathaniel Mayer, Toots and the Maytals, the immortal Sam Cooke, Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Al Green, CCR, Louisiana, Meat, The old Mr. Bob's pizza, jerky, The village of Chippawa, The Chicago Bears, The Buffalo Bills, James Kent's hair, records, 8 tracks, mixed tapes, draft Beer, bottled beer, canned beer, Canadian beer, bad American beer, imported beer...as a matter of fact, all beer! Bourbon, bad relationships with 'the ladies' and of course, the trials and tribulations of our 'deer' friend, Georgie Waters.
Sounds Like: A mix of R.L. Burnside, The Groovie Ghoulies, and Joy Division. We like to call it "Blue Wave"! A 'fan' of the Venisons pointed out that we play a distinct style of Blues and Rock. He liked to call it, 'Room Clearing Rock'!
Record Label: Bareknuckle Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Let the Creative Hiatus begin

Dear Friends and fans, The Venisons are now sitting alone pondering life, new albums and the new direction of the band. We are on a somewhat forced hiatus as my wife and I are expecting our second bab...
Posted by The Venisons on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 07:49:00 PST

Frank The Tank rears his ugly head!

As I've gotten older, had kids, and try to be a responsible citizen, I have found that my drinking days are far and few between............thank god.  I just can't do it anymore like I used too.&...
Posted by The Venisons on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 09:36:00 PST

Best Paying Gig Ever

I love listening to musicians talk about paying gigs, how they are going to make it, then widdle away into pop music purgatory.  I love how they start to only book shows at venues that will give ...
Posted by The Venisons on Fri, 11 Jan 2008 06:40:00 PST

CD Release Finally!

After more than a year The Venisons 2nd Cd "Meat The Venisons" will finally be available to the masses.  Unfortunately we aren't in any stores except Blue Streak Records in Peterborough.  So...
Posted by The Venisons on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 02:49:00 PST