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Trevor McKenzie

About Me

"Trevor McKenzie, nineteen years old and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia... is known for playing banjo and guitar, he is also a rare player of the handsaw." - Charlotte Folk Society. Member of the Black Lick Plow Pushers, Eddie and the Harmaniacs, The Appalachian Mountaineers, Jim Lloyd and Friends, Pink Lloyd and the Wall, Acoustic Mayhem, Dead Fiddlers Society- and other band names that change from show to show, festival to festival.


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Member Since: 1/14/2008
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Influences: Sam and Kirk McGee, Costa Campbell and "the Amazing" Jim Lloyd- of course, Kalamazoo Guitars, The Virginia Skyline Boys, Ivan Stiles-"the world's most awesome hand saw player," Mountain Fling, Wesley Easter, Irving Berlin, The Skillet Lickers (mainly the stuff they recorded while under the influence), Uncle Dave Macon, Wayne Henderson and Herb Key, Mississippi John Hurt, The Carter Family, The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, E. C. Ball, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope, Leon Redbone, Will Keys, The Konnarock Critters, Jimmie Rodgers (the only man who could ever make yodeling cool), Southern Pride, Parliament Funkadelic, John Hartford, Clark Kessinger, Bela Lugosi, Charlie Poole, Abbott and Costello, Frank Pallister, The Zig Zag Plowboys, Dock Walsh, Mark Twain, Daniel Emmett, The Marx Brothers, Othar Turner, Stephen Foster (universal influence of old-time musicians), Fats Waller and his Rhythm, The Jungle Book, Fred McDowell, Frank Luke, James Brown, David Holt, Mike Seeger, Errol Flynn, Eddie Thomas and Carl Scott, Woody Guthrie, Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, Bogie, Clarence Ashley, the Three Stooges, Marconi, Duke Ellington, Stevie Wonder, Red Clay Ramblers, Jules Verne, Gladys Knight and the Pips, John Williams, Doc Watson, Django Reinhart and Stephane Grapelli, Fred Astaire, Professor Marvel from the "Wizard of Oz," The Guys All-Star Shoe Band, Wade Ward, The Dixieland Jug Blowers (not to be confused the the Original Dixieland Jazz Band- also an influence), Merry Melodies Shorts, Bo Carter, Willie Shakespeare, Dock Boggs, G. B. Grayson...
Sounds Like: Old records without the surface noise.
Record Label: Rural Retreat Records?- I think that’s the name...
Type of Label: Indie

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