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Hugh Fisher

Acoustic Fingerstyle Contemporary Folk

About Me

Me, well I started singing in the church choir around 8 years old, took up guitar around 15 & decided it was what I wanted to do and have been doing it ever since. Along the way I’ve played Hammond organ, piano, electric and acoustic bass and sang tons of harmony. But doing my own songs on acoustic guitar & harmonica & vocal is the sweet spot for me. Also like to wank on electric, yowsa! Cut me loose! I’ve been lucky to enough to earn a living for over 20 years doing covers and working with many great writers as a backup musician, that was my education and fueled my passion, but the writing is the most important part. Don’t do much backup anymore. Right now I’m recording myself and writing new stuff as well as polishing up songs to do some shows. Don’t know when I’ll release another CD, when it's ready I guess. Also really dig meeting all you cool people here on myspace, so come back and visit, say hello, listen.

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Member Since: 12/25/2005
Band Website: myspace.com/hughfisher
Band Members: Hugh on Vocals, Acoustic guitar, harmonica...Rusty James on Drumkit....Paul Bergman on Acoustic & electric Bass....Max on Sax....Hugh Fisher/Geoff Birch on harmony....Currently solo...Viola sometimes.... Acoustic bass too, drums & percussion at different times.
Influences: Very broad range, gigged for 20 years in cover and original bands from Bebop to Rock to Folk. Acoustic, Don Ross, Peppino D'Agostino, Ani DiFranco, old blues & folk, early Dylan, Greg Brown, Elvis Costello, Beck, Lucinda Williams, Dan Lanois, Gillian Welch, Joni Mitchell, Dead Can Dance, Beatles, Capt.Beefheart, Return to Forever, Simon & Garfunkel, John Prine, Dylan Thomas, Virginia Wolf, time in the wilderness, flying over Greenland, Leonard Cohen, friends on myspace, great paper & pens
Sounds Like: Words can't explain, like ringin' rain on a page of singin' glass.
Record Label: Pssst Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

KISSING KAREN

KISSING KAREN The very first time I purposefully kissed a girl I was about 6 and so was she. Her name was Karen and she had light grey brown hair and it was fine as mist. It was winter and we were in ...
Posted by Hugh Fisher on Thu, 24 Aug 2006 10:56:00 PST