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Sidestreet Reny

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative

About Me



[OFFICIAL SSR SITE]

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 11/7/2004
Band Website: SSRtrio.com
Band Members:

SSR: vocals, fingerstyle and slide guitar (National resonator guitars and great grandpas old parlor guitar circa late 1800's), bluesharp, keys, production and songs

Lil'Bell: drums, those sweet ass harmonies, percussion and washboard

Bako Billy: upright bass

Witchy Poo: booking, coordinator, spiritual advisor, resident spell caster and mediator

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Influences:Mom (for love and her record collection), Buddha (for a little tranquility), my beautifully flawed step "dad" (for shit to write about), My father (r.i.p... his death kept me from it), family, near fatal o.d. at 13, being alone on the road at age 16, guidance (or lack thereof), 20 + years of GOOD herbs, just barely keeping me grounded, outsider art, alternative lifestyles, whores, pimps, junkies, freedom, weakness, desolation, loneliness, love, hate, peace, war, poverty and a healthy amount of psychedelics.
The past couple hundred years of civilization and the art and music it spawned!!! such as...
JIM JARMUSCH, JACK KEROUAC, BO CARTER (CHATMON), Sam Chatmon, Mississippi Sheiks, Chet Baker, BOB MARLEY, Son House, Charlie Patton, Bob Dylan, CARLOS CASTENEDA, Don Juan Matus, Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, TOM WAITS, Picasso, Morrison, MONET, Janis Joplin, Salvador Dali, Grateful Dead, Cory Harris, Pato Banton, Black Uhuru, Lone Ranger, Yellowman, Studio One, Curtis Mayfield, Johnny Guitar Watson, B.B., BLONDIE, Sabbath, Zeppelin, Blue Cheer, Love, JONI MITCHELL, Doc Watson, Joan Armatrading, Bowie, Velvet Underground, Warhol, ALVIN YOUNGBLOOD HART, Louie, Ella, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Neal Cassidy, Bukowski, Allen Ginsberg, a Tribe Called Quest, JUNGLE BROTHERS, De La Soul, Gang Starr, Brand Nubians, Basehead, the Roots, BUKKA, ROBERT JOHNSON, Fred McDowell, PAUL SIMON, the Stooges, Iggy Pop, Per Ubu, Skip James, Ken Kesey, Chris Whitley, BLIND BOY FULLER, Blind Willie McTell, Barrington Levy, Minor Threat, Meat Puppets, Israel Vibration, Toots And The Maytals, KRS one, Sly & Robbie, Dennis Brown, Culture, U-Roy, Augustus Pablo, Peter Tosh, Viceroy's, Roots Radics, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Blind Blake, Rory Block, ALLISON KRAUS, Blind Willie Johnson, Mark Ryden, R. Crumb, Captain Beefheart, Memphis Minnie, William S. Burroughs, Beck, RL Burnside, Portishead, Fiona Apple, Muddy Waters, Sonny & Brownie, SQUEEZE, the Jam, DK, Black Flag, Germs, Adolescents, G.B.H., TAJ MAHAL, Plato, Da Vinci, Walt Whitman, Miles Davis, Chet Baker, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Aretha, Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Danger Doom, Seasick Steve, Black Keys, G Love, T model Ford, Doug Macleod....For now.

my 1932 National Triolian

Jim Jarmusch

Kerouac

Bo Carter

Sounds Like: Sounds like everything ya ever heard and nothin' ya ever heard, all at once......or 100+ years of western civilization and it's burning roots.
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HELP w/ GEORGE THE PUG
Our beloved pug George is ill & having seisures and needs some tests run on him. We are struggling to get the $ together. Please help out with a few bucks, every cent counts. If Paypal isn't yer thing, [ EMAIL US ] Thanx alot folks.
- SSR

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My Blog

05.31.2008 - DAVIS, SF, KDVS, THE BIG MOVE

Well it's been a minute folks. Sorry. We been real busy tryin to keep the train on the tracks... chuggin along.Our coverage in Blues Matters in the next issue... can't wait to hear what they think. Lo...
Posted by Sidestreet Reny on Sun, 01 Jun 2008 10:13:00 PST

05.06.2008 - BLUES FINLAND ALBUM REVIEW, BLUES MATTERS

Our first international album review, from Blues Finland. Not too bad.Our record review in Blues Matters (international) is being published in the next issue (June/July). Y'all can look for that one i...
Posted by Sidestreet Reny on Tue, 06 May 2008 03:22:00 PST

05.02.2008 - UPCOMING GIGS, RICHARD EDSON, WITCHY POO

Hey y'all, hope all's well on yer ends. We are just chuggin along... doin our thang. Got a bunch of reviews and coverage in some cool publications and got booked at some great festivals this summer. S...
Posted by Sidestreet Reny on Fri, 02 May 2008 01:22:00 PST

04.13.2008 - HOME, SW TOUR, LOVE LOVE LOVE

Well folks, we made it home!! We all love each other as much if not more than when we left. Everybody was really stoked on our music, the shows went better than was expected. Great turn outs every nig...
Posted by Sidestreet Reny on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 11:14:00 PST

03.10.2008 - PORTLAND, ROSLYN, BOO SEATTLE

Alright everybody, we been on the road for five days and we all still love each other! Had a great first couple gigs, hungout in a crazy house in Santa Cruz with some rally cool peeps from American He...
Posted by Sidestreet Reny on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 12:27:00 PST

03.30.2008 - LIFE'S GOOD, WHATEVER MR. MYSPACE, TOUR FLYERS

Life is good, we got folks helpin us get our shit in movies and tv and alotta fans have been showin love as well as radio and publications. Much appreciated, cus I need the reassurance... I am weak. H...
Posted by Sidestreet Reny on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 11:14:00 PST

03.29.2008 - I THINK I FUCKED IT UP!

We were real stoked to find out that we made it to 1 on the blues charts on myspace as of the 28th but we checked today and we are nowhere to be found. Bummer, could be a glitch or something, because ...
Posted by Sidestreet Reny on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 10:33:00 PST

03.26.2008 - WHAT'S GOOD, NW MINI TOUR, KIND WORDS

March 26, 2008Hey people, hope all’s well. We are gettin ready for our lil’ NW tour, Billy’s comin’ as well as Witchy Poo. So we got the drivin covered now, and we are so excit...
Posted by Sidestreet Reny on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 03:19:00 PST

03.15.2008 - CRANES, WESTSIDE ECLECTIC VARIETY SHOW

March 15, 2008Hey party people. Great show on Thursday at Cranes. Good turn out, lotsa new people and some even came all the way from Huntington Beach. There was dancin’ singin and a generally f...
Posted by Sidestreet Reny on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 11:18:00 PST

03.13.2008 - PUBLISHED POETRY, GIG AT CRANES TONIGHT

Hey folks, I got the editors choics award for my first published poem. Pretty cool. Here’s my certificate. Oh boy. Don’t forget about the gig at Cranes tonight at 11:00. It’s gon&rsq...
Posted by Sidestreet Reny on Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:55:00 PST