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JD Aldridge

JD Aldridge / singer / songwriter / musician

About Me

MARRIED TO THE BEAUTIFUL DEBBIE (MAIDEN NAME, RUSSELL) WHO HAILS FROM WAUKEGAN, ILL. SHE RESIDES WITH ME IN VINA ALABAMA... I AM VERY PROUD OF MY THREE SONS, (NO I'M NOT FRED McMURRAY), JOEL BRUCE, DUELL RUSSELL, AND DARYL RAY.... ALL THREE ARE SPECIAL IN THEIR OWN WAY. ALSO HAVE TWO GRAND CHILDREN THANKS TO JOEL BRUCE (OH, YEAH...AND TO HIS WIFE TRULY...SHE HAD A HAND IN IT ALSO...)..JOEL BRUCE IS CURRENTLY IN BAGHDAD AND ALWAYS IN OUR PRAYERS.....HIS WIFE TRULY AND ADDYSON AND DECLAN, OUR GRANDKIDS), LIVE IN FORT CAMPBELL, KY. RUSSELL GOES TO SCHOOL IN FLORENCE, AL. AT UNA....DARYL GOES TO SCHOOL AT U OF ALA AND LIVES THERE IN TUSCALOOSA... IF YOU READ THIS PLEASE BE IN PRAYER FOR OUR SON JOEL BRUCE CURRENTLY IN IRAQ........ AS FOR MYSELF MUSICALLY SPEAKING..I PLAY LEAD GUITAR FOR 'SRX', A SEVENTIES ROCK BAND. WE PLAY ALL AROUND NORTHWEST ALABAMA, NORTHEAST MISSISSIPPI, AND SOUTHWEST TENNESSEE. I'VE PERFORMED MANY A SONGWRITER SHOWCASES FROM TUPELO TO MUSCLE SHOALS. I HAVE HAD THE GOOD FORTUNE TO HAVE PLAYED ONSTAGE WITH THE LIKES OF...PETER RIVERA (OF RARE EARTH) AND JERRY CORBETTA (OF SUGARLOAF)..THESE GUYS PLAY IN THE CLASSIC ROCK ALL STARS..HAVE ALSO PLAYED BACKUP FOR AL WILSON, THE LATE GREAT AL PETERSON, SAL VALENTINO, OF THE BEAU BROMMELS AND MORE..SONNY GARACCI (HE HAD A FEW HITS, ONE OF WHICH WAS 'PRECIOUS AND FEW')..JEWEL ATKINS OF 'BIRDS AND THE BEES' FAME...I'VE DONE SHOWS WITH GEORGE JONES, MEL McDANIELS, CONFEDERATE RAILROAD, DAVID ALLEN COE, SKEETER DAVIS...THERE'S MORE BUT I FORGET AS I GET OLDER..LOL . I HAVE ALSO BEEN ON TELEVISION MANY TIMES LOCALLY BETWEEN TUPELO AND FLORENCE PERFORMING ORIGINAL MATERIAL AND HAVE APPEARED ON 'THE NASHVILLE NETWORK' ONE TIME. YOU CAN CHECK THE BAND'S MYSPACE PAGE AT WWW.MYSPACE.COM/SRXTHEBAND..IT'S A BRAND NEW PAGE AND I WILL ADD MORE TO IT AS THE DAYS AND MONTHS GO BY. AND IF YOU GET THE CHANCE...CHECK OUT SOME OF MY LYRICS IN THE BLOG SECTION OF MY OTHER SITE 'www.myspace.com/jdaldridgeofsrx'

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/6/2008
Band Website: myspace.com/jdaldridgemusic
Band Members: JD Aldridge - lead guitarist, lead and harmony vocals, specializes in slide / Gary Bostick - lead vocals and harmony vocals, keyboards and acoustic and electric rythm guitars / Scott Woodruff - bass guitar, harmony and lead vocals / Paul Langley - drums, bongos and other noise making items
Influences: as a writer my biggest influence was my mother. As a young boy I remembered my mom coming home from her job at the Blue Bell clothing plant in Red Bay, Alabama, and taking out all of the little notes of paper that she had written different lines to songs on thruout the day, while at her job. She would take all of those scratch notes and work on them and before you knew it, she would have another song written. I love all of the songs my mother wrote, and still sing some of them from time to time. Other influences on my music in general were all of my 'hometown music heroes' around when I was growing up around Red Bay between the ages of 10 to 15. The Hollands consisted of sister Robbie Mae who played piano at the Ten Acre Field Church Of God for years and years and her sons Arvis and Jerry who always made music when they were around and were patience enough to let a novice like myself sit in when ever they could. Also The Seahorns, Billie, Gene, and Randy. Randy and I later played for a number of years in a great southern rock band called 'Daybreak', along with Tim Malone, Donny Stephens and Brent Sparks. Randy and I wrote a lot of songs together. He left this world of ours too soon and I miss him dearly. There were also the gang out at Fowler's Garage that I believe Randy and Jerry Thorn used to let me go with them to hear now and then. Jerry's sister Kathy Ivey was and is one of my favorite singers since way back then. And gosh I have to say my drive probably came because of the fact that my good friend Lionel Leathers would always let me stay at their practice garage even during closed practices, for his band, Phoenix. I would sit for hours and listen to Lionel teach and instruct his band members on how to apply theory to performance and I soaked up every word he ever told them about why you needed to accent here and punch there and compliment this and that. It was a life lesson in music. I couldn't begin to tell you how big a part those times played on my never giving up on this business. Thanks to all of them.
Sounds Like: In my early days they always told me I was too rock for country or that my songs were too different. Later when I toned myself down and tried to write more traditional styles, they told me I was too much like everyone else. I decided to just to what ever the heck I wanted to do in the way I want to do it. So that's what I sound like now. Sometimes too different, sometimes too much the same but always........ always......... like me.
Record Label: unsigned
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

SONG LYRICS.......ANGEL CREEK

Angel Creek JD Aldridge (I started writing this song about the funny things that might occur if a couple actually tried to get intimate on a beach. I had originally intended for this to be a comedy so...
Posted by JD Aldridge on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:51:00 PST

SONG LYRICS.......BULL MOUNTAIN BOTTOM

BULL MOUNTAIN BOTTOM JD ALDRIDGE (AT ONE TIME I USED TO RIDE TO WORK WITH TWO DIFFERENT INDIVIUALS. WHEN I GOT THE IDEA FOR THIS SONG, I WAS LOOKING FOR NAMES TO USE FOR THE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE SONG. ...
Posted by JD Aldridge on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:47:00 PST

Except For Love / song lyrics

words and music by JD Aldridge WHEN I STARTED TO WRITE THIS SONG I TRIED MY BEST TO THINK OF MYSELF AS THE CHARACTER IN THE SONG, IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE I GOT THE POINT ACROSS OF HOW MUCH SOME PEOPLE G...
Posted by JD Aldridge on Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:23:00 PST

A little bit of info about the songs on this you are hearing on this page

The 4 songs that are available to play on this page are very dear to me. I wrote all of them with the exception of 'Key To My Heart', which was written by my mother Mary Marie Holland. These were part...
Posted by JD Aldridge on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 05:40:00 PST