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Fat Maw Rooney

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About Me


Formed in 1996, the Milwaukee-based Fat Maw Rooney has recently emerged onto the national music scene as a serious force to be reckoned with. With roots and passions firmly in the blues and R&B/funk genres, FMR also seamlessly blends armloads of rock, fists full of bluegrass, dashes of reggae, and sacks of Latin into their tremendously original and passionate blend of music. Their powerful original sets have been capturing the hearts and minds of thousands of music hungry concert-goers throughout the Midwest. The band's musical catalog is jammed full of inventive composition, spot-on four part vocal harmonies, and "lyrics that transcend all ages and backgrounds."
Fat Maw Rooney has been called one of Minnesota's Best Jam Bands in "The Minneapolis/St.Paul Star Tribune", has received numerous features and cover stories in many Wisconsin news papers and magazines including Maximum Ink, Rick's Café, The Sheppard Express, and The Isthmus. They have also performed at such prestigious venues as the 10,000 Lakes Festival (Detroit Lakes, MN), The Rave Ball Room (Milwaukee), and the Orpheum Theatre (Madison, WI), among others.
Top 5 FMR shows on Archive.org
Our good friend Mikey took the time to pick out his top 5 shows of ours from Archive.org. Here are links to them... fully downloadable. Feel free to spread them around.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/6/2005
Band Website: fatmawrooney.com
Band Members: Craig Baumann - Guitar, Vocals and Harmonica
R.J. Peterson - Guitar and Vocals
Kevin Rowe - Bass and Vocals
Ryan Necci - Percussion and Vocals

Influences: Craig's Influences Include:
Eric Clapton, Joe Satriani, Frank Zappa, BB King, Otis Redding, The Band, The Allman Brothers and Victor Wooten

RJ's Influences Include:
Muhammad Ali, Freddy Hubbard, Arturo Sandoval, Bruce Lee, Kenny Loggins, Miles Davis, Amy Grant, Sugar Ray Robinson, Otis Redding, Clifford Brown

Ryan's Influences Include:
Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, Iron & Wine, Hank Williams Sr., Pantera, The Black Crowes, Levon Helm, Walt Whitman, Paul Simon, Gillian Welch

Kevin's Influences Include:
Charles Mingus, Jaco Pastorius, The Meters, James Brown, James Jamerson, Dave Holland Quintet, Herbie Hancock, Led Zeppelin, Fela Kuti

Sounds Like:
Click here to buy Horseshoes and Hand Grenades from CDBaby
Click here to download Horseshoes and Hand Grenades from Itunes
Record Label: none
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Horseshoes and Hand Grenades Review - Rick's Cafe - Nov. 2006 Issue

Style: Jazzy, Soulful, Multi-faceted Jam         It's a shame that Fat Maw Rooney, one of the best bands in the entire state of Wisconsin, play the city of Madiso...
Posted by Fat Maw Rooney on Tue, 21 Nov 2006 02:06:00 PST

Halloween weekend

Good morning everyone.  Just thought we should do something more on here than add our friends and check our messages.  I'm still a little new to and scared of the whole myspace thing but fig...
Posted by Fat Maw Rooney on Wed, 01 Nov 2006 05:00:00 PST

So this is Myspace

It's been a ridiculously long trip to get onto Myspace.  Everyone's been yellin'...."when you gettin' on myspace."  Well, let the yellin' cease 'cause here we are.  We'll be working on ...
Posted by Fat Maw Rooney on Thu, 06 Apr 2006 08:51:00 PST