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Uncle Shoe

Uncle Shoe and the Fat Back Boys

About Me

"UNCLE SHOE has a manner of tuneful delivery that appeals to the delight of the most discerning audiences and his lilting streetcorner soliloquies are equally commanding of attention from the casual passers-by. His voice can fill a concert hall and effortlessly match the din of an elevated train. His songs are at once boastful, humorous, opinionated and romantic. It is difficult to not find oneself immediately taken up and carried away on the infectious melodies that issue forth from his masterful banjo playing, hollers, & captivating voice." You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/3/2005
Band Website: mattsamolis.com/ms_sounds.php?id=8
Band Members: This is usually a solo project , but I also play trio quite often. The Fatbacks include Miles Anderson on bass, Glenn Dickson on clarinet, Doghouse Dan on 'bone, Bhob Rainey on sop sax, Michael McLaughlin on accordion, Tung Pham on trumpet, etc...
Influences: Polk Miller's Old South Quartette, the Four Vagabonds, Uncle Dave Macon, Eddie Morton, Jane Green, Emmett Miller, etc..
dreamtime shoes on Vimeo
How to make a shoebox from Remyyy on Vimeo .
Sounds Like: Vaudeville/ Minstrel/ Tin Pan Alley
Record Label: Half Round
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

mosquitos are summer.

Wanted to drop in and let you all know that today i got my first mosquito bite of the season. Summer must not be far off. I am spending most of the summer recording a couple new discs. The more ambiti...
Posted by Uncle Shoe on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 09:46:00 PST

"from the desk of Uncle Shoe"

Just a quick shout to say hello to all of you. This fall has been a blurrr, to be sure. We're just finishing this years' Medicine Wheel installation. no pics up yet, but you can always check in at my ...
Posted by Uncle Shoe on Sun, 02 Dec 2007 11:47:00 PST

sox that do not match

First of all, I would like to thank Emily for sharing her music with me, and Heather for the goats' milk cheese from Norway. But more to the point- all the hollerin' outside must mean that the Sox did...
Posted by Uncle Shoe on Mon, 29 Oct 2007 10:13:00 PST

new CD is out!

Hey everybody- my new CD, Same Old Moon, is out. It's a collection of Tin Pan Alley tunes from the turn of the century. Lots of silly word play, love songs, and topical matter of the day. I was lucky ...
Posted by Uncle Shoe on Sat, 12 May 2007 06:55:00 PST

Corn-fed Chorale progress report

Hey everybodyFirst of all, THANKS to all of you who came down last Friday, or sent in an mp3. The song is coming along nicely, and I'll have the pictures back soon. {yes, I still shoot film}. I can't ...
Posted by Uncle Shoe on Thu, 08 Feb 2007 04:20:00 PST

''I'm Just Crazy 'Bout You'' and the Corn Fed Chorale:

Uncle Shoe's Corn-fed Chorale is a randomly assembled choral project. For this project I need as many voices as possible to sing out the chorus of this one song, "I'm Just Crazy 'Bout You". It was p...
Posted by Uncle Shoe on Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:14:00 PST

Same Old Moon CD

Well, I'm getting awfully close to finishing my CD, Same Old Moon! The title track really says it all. As soon as Mr Norton puts the bass clarinet track on it, I will post for you all to hear. There a...
Posted by Uncle Shoe on Fri, 05 Jan 2007 09:32:00 PST

Rat poison

The apartment building where I work has mice. It also has some grain moths lately. I have been going through all the storage and kitchen cupboards, but noplace can I find where they are coming from. B...
Posted by Uncle Shoe on Mon, 06 Nov 2006 06:51:00 PST

my horn charts suck

Man, I hope nobody ever holds my horn charts against me. I had no idea how hard it is to write good sounding horn charts! If this disc ever gets done {it has to be done by christmas, because I spent a...
Posted by Uncle Shoe on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:38:00 PST

birch trees for everyone

Last night I had this kind of dream where I was in an old town that was unfamiliar, and from a certain vantage point where I stopped to try and get my bearings, I saw the most interesting thing. They ...
Posted by Uncle Shoe on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:09:00 PST