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Lex Shuler - Coonbone

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Singer-songwriter Lex Shuler entertains audiences wherever he plays with music that portrays the joys and sorrows, ups and downs of true life. In a variety of roots-based styles, Lex performs on six string guitar and harmonica.
His performances incorporate original and traditional material with the works of other contemporary songwriters to form a musical portrait of the history and life of rural America.
Shuler’s poetic style has been compared to John Prine and Paul Siebel as well as Jimmie Rodgers, the singing brakeman. Reviewers have also described Lex as a guitarist with a unique style whose vocal delivery is a blend of edgy and soulful and straight from the heart. Lex has a profound respect for the early bluesmen like Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lightning Hopkins.
A veteran of the bluegrass and folk music revival in the sixties, Lex has performed in a variety of bands before beginning his career as a songwriter/soloist. For Lex, a good song is as much a work of art as any painting. His music has a timeless quality about it, with one foot in the past and one foot in the future.
He combines traditional and modern styles of guitar and harmonica accompaniment to paint pictures using words, tone and rhythm; pictures of sorrow, joy, frustration and light hearted fun.

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Member Since: 3/9/2008
Band Website: http://lexshuler.com
Band Members: Lex Shuler, "Coonbone", is a solo, singer/songwriter playing acoustic guitar and harmonica.
Influences: My influences, in no particular order, include John Prine, Paul Siebel, Steve Goodman, Leon Redbone, Willie Nelson, Jimmie Rodgers (The Singing Brakeman), Robert Johnson, Lightning Hopkins, Blind Lemon Jefferson, The Carter Family, Bob Dylan and others. I was greatly influenced as a child by William Earn Harper, a blind musician in my hometown, who used to sing, play guitar and harmonica on the street corner, near the bus stop.
Sounds Like: Coonbone
Record Label: Rural Music Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Me and Mr Harper

William Earn HarperBack in the late forties and early fifties there was an old blind man, a musician, that used to play on the street corner near Sweenys Drug store. His name was William Earn Harper....
Posted by on Sat, 25 Apr 2009 05:46:00 GMT

KODI

I grew up in the country north of Salem, Illinois. Not far from there was the small community of Alma, Illinois. They used to grow a lot of produce and fruit around Alma and most of it was shipped to ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:33:00 GMT

Easter Flowers

I grew up in the country north of Salem, Illinois. Not far from there was the small community of Alma, Illinois. They used to grow a lot of produce and fruit around Alma and most of it was shipped to ...
Posted by on Sat, 28 Feb 2009 06:31:00 GMT

The Toby Show

Now that its getting close to spring Ive started planning some of the things I want to do when the weather gets nice. I guess my mind wandered a bit and I began thinking about all the things I liked...
Posted by on Wed, 25 Feb 2009 05:40:00 GMT

Harmless Mischief

There was an item in the local paper a couple of days ago about some youngsters were in trouble for defacing structures in the park. They had painted graffiti on a building and broke some windows. The...
Posted by on Wed, 21 Jan 2009 10:10:00 GMT

Bringing in the New Year

New Year's Eve was inconsequential when I was a youngster. Everyone I knew went to bed as usual, without any observance of the passing of the old year. The first time I remember ever doing something s...
Posted by on Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:53:00 GMT

Some Christmas Memories

Thinking back, there were some memorable things associated with Christmas. Probably the most traumatic was the year my brother Jack and I carefully hung our stockings near the Christmas tree in antici...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 15:39:00 GMT

Christmas Shopping

We are coming up on the Christmas shopping season and at this time of year I always think of the master of power shopping, my Dad. I was about 7 or 8 when this amazing feat unfolded and I think of it ...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Dec 2008 05:38:00 GMT

The Power Of Persistence

I guess it was when I was in the seventh grade when I learned the power of persistence. It was one of those great things you learn without studying or even trying. It just happened and I have remember...
Posted by on Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:32:00 GMT

Black Panthers and Other Scary Stuff

When we were kids, there would always be stories of black panthers on the loose around the neighborhood. I always credited Loren Bullard, a neighbor, as the source of these stories but I'm sure there ...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:26:00 GMT