Member Since: 06/01/2008
Band Website: http://www3.telus.net/public/tenbear/
Band Members: John Leonard Tenbear Thompson Rainey - Sings , Hollers , talks to himself , mumbles , wanders w/ Guitar , Banjo , bass , slide , djembe , doombek , Kazoo , Jaw harp , Shoes , Harmonica , Teeth , one or two electronical gizmotrons and anything else he can get his hands on and Occasionally with some great musical friends and Family too
Influences: Some major influences - Life & Death - Fam Rainey, DL/ZTR , ShakyaMuniBuddha , Hayao Miyazaki , Eric Fromm , Bakunin anarchism , Lynda , Leonard Heyoka , Tinariwen , Dr Suess , Hank Williams , my Sisters my Brothers , Siouxsie Sioux , Lemmy Von Motorhead , Grama D. Mckay , Blind Arthur Blake , 3 Children , Chief Dan George , Captain Beefheart , Mississippi Shieks , Woody Guthrie , Memphis Minnie , Ali Farka Toure , Bach , CrAss , Elizabeth Cotton , Gram and Emmylou , Santa , Jimmy Rogers , Lister Sinclair , happy and sad people and other stuff , in no particular order and lot's I can't think of and more daily
Sounds Like: Earthy Bluesee Acousto-kamistic Swingen Can-African Country dance thing a Ma sound
Record Label: homemade
Type of Label: Unsigned