Member Since: 12/10/2005
Band Website: blairpoetry.com
Band Members: WWW.BLAIRPOETRY.COM/BAND.HTML
Influences: TV On The Radio, M.I.A., Bloc Party, PJ Harvey, The Gossip, The Dirtbombs, Stevie Wonder, Tom Waits, Tracy Chapman, Defiance Ohio, Nina Simone, Patti Griffin, Amy Winehouse, Antony, The Smiths, Matson Jones, Radiohead, Tricky, Bjork, Paul Robeson, The Smiths, Joni Mitchell, Bright Eyes, Velvet Underground, Dale Wilson, Michael Jackson, Bayard Rustin, Talking Heads, Coltrane, Yusef Komunyakaa, Carl Philips, Nine Inch Nails, Mike Doughty, Carl Craig, Miles Davis, The Hentchmen, Will Oldham, Pharaoh Saunders, Anthony Braxton, Vievee Francis, Historic Folk Music, Detroit, cracks in the pavement, Bowie, Toots and the Maytalls, Dolly Parton, Queen, Sylvester, Write Word Write Now, Chris Garneau, A Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Jim Jarmusch, The Clash, Langston Hughes, Patti Smith, June Jordan, Audra Kubat, My Mom, My Dad, Crash, Calvin Anderson, The House of the Future, Big Mama Thornton, Patti Smith, Nick Cave, Boogie Down Productions Thornetta Davis, Invincible, Black Bottom Collective, Versiz, DJ Munk, Afeni Ngozi Hill, Audra Kubat, Dylan
Sounds Like: People have said Ben Harper and Richie Havens, breathy, a wooden Indian flute, theft, too rock for r&b, too poetic for pop music, too soul for rock...whatever.
Lately, my new stuff is generally faster, harder, more urgent, intense. I don't know, sounds like music.
This is an independent list made by someone I've never even met, so I'm flattered and thankful. Plus there's some other good folks on the list. Check it out.
Record Label: sometimes Epidemic Records, sometimes not
Type of Label: None