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Louis Ledford

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About Me

[Louis Ledford’s] land is the “Old Weird America” Greil Marcus wrote so emotively about. His stories seldom end with a hero on the proverbial mountaintop. His narratives are typically told by the losers, those close to the edge, in the grandest sense. This latest record puts him in front of a microphone, sans accompaniment, where he pours out live-sounding interpretations of his own music, which while not your Daddy’s folk, has one foot planted firmly either side of Cripple Creek. Adios King represents Ledford’s most accomplished work, which at it’s peak stands shoulder to shoulder with that of modern luminaries as Gillian Welch, Patty Griffin, and the like. - J. Holgren, 9X Magazine.

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Music:

Member Since: 1/28/2006
Band Website: www.louisledford.com
Band Members: Louis Ledford on Voice, Guitars, Banjo, Harmonica.Will also be in company with Robert Blake, Anais Mitchell and Rachel Ries as part of the Tin Pan Caravan.
Influences: Abraham, Roy Acuff, Douglas Adams, Aesop, Captain Ahab, Fat Albert, Muhammad Ali, Woody Allen, Steve Allen, Robert Altman, Adam Ant, Marc Antony, Thomas Aquinas, Yasser Arafat, Fatty Arbuckle, Aristotle, Alan Arkin, Benedict Arnold, King Arthur, Arthur Ashe, Chet Atkins, Tex Avery, John Banner, Brigitte Bardot, Chuck Barris, P.T. Barnum, Count Basie, Batman, Mel Bay, The Beatles, Samuel Beckett, Harry Belafonte, John Belushi, Benedict XVI, Roberto Benigni, Beowulf, Cyrano de Bergerac, Irving Berlin, Chuck Berry, Richard Berry, Bert (and Ernie), Bigfoot, Billy the Kid, John Birch, Frank Black, Robert Blake, Blackbeard the Pirate, Humphrey Bogart, Simon Bolivar, James Bond, William Bonney, Sonny Bono, John Wilkes Booth, Ernest Borgnine, David Bowie, Paul Bowles, Milton Bradley, Eva Braun, Richard Brautigan, Charles Bronson, Garth Brooks, Mel Brooks, The Brothers Grimm, Charlie Brown, Greg Brown, James Brown, John Brown, Lenny Bruce, Pat Buchanan, Buddha, Jimmy Buffett, Bugs Bunny, Charles Bukowski, Ken Burns, Robert Burns, Aaron Burr, William S. Burroughs, Steve Buscemi, Barbara Bush, George Bush, Paul Butterfield, Julius Caesar, Andrew Calhoun, John C. Calhoun, Glen Campbell, Albert Camus, Al Capone, Truman Capote, Frank Capra, Captain Kangaroo, George Carlin, Wendy Carlos, David Carradine, John Carradine, Keith Carradine, Jim Carroll, Lewis Carroll, Johnny Carson, The Carter Family, Jimmy Carter, Raymond Carver, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Neal Cassady, Butch Cassidy, Fidel Castro, Willa Cather, Holden Caulfield, Cedric The Entertainer, Cerberus, Miguel de Cervantes, Jackie Chan, Raymond Chandler, Chris Chandler, Charlie Chaplin, Mark David Chapman, Chappaquiddick, Ray Charles, Bobby Charles, Geoffrey Chaucer, Cesar Chavez, Anton Chekov, Dick Cheney, Chief Joseph, Winston Churchill, The Clash, Emperor Claudius, Santa Claus, Cassius Clay, Beaver Cleaver, Samuel Clemens, Cleopatra, Montgomery Cliff, Hillary Rodham Clinton, William Jefferson Clinton, Inspector Clouseau, Kurt Cobain, James Coburn, Joe Cocker, Colonel Sanders, Samuel Colt, John Coltrane, Christopher Columbus, Confucius, Sean Connery, D.B. Cooper, Francis Ford Coppola, Roger Corman, Bill Cosby, Elvis Costello, Bob Crane, Hart Crane, Davy Crockett, Walter Cronkite, R. Crumb, Robinson Crusoe, E.E. Cummings, Tony Curtis, George Armstrong Custer, Czar Nicholas, Idi Amin Dada, Roald Dahl, Jeffery Dahmer, Dalai Lama, Salvador Dali, Dante, Virginia Dare, Darth Vader, Charles Darwin, King David, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jefferson Davis, Miles Davis, Richard Dawson, Daniel Day Lewis, Deep Throat, Benicio Del Toro, Dennis the Menace, Bob Denver, John Denver, Rene’ Descartes, The Devil, Neil Diamond, Moby Dick, Charles Dickens, Bo Diddley, The Dillards, Walt Disney, Fats Domino, Donovan, Fedor Dostoevsky, Dracula, W.E.B. Du Bois, Faye Dunaway, Jimmy Durante, Robert Duvall, Bob Dylan....
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Record Label: Waterbug
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

video postcards from home.....

on may 23rd in richmond we are playing a show to benefit make it right nola.this is a video i made a couple of weeks ago....
Posted by on Tue, 12 May 2009 17:13:00 GMT

pete's birthday set, irma thomas, and why wilco is the best r&r band in the world.

dear friends,pete seeger's set at jazzfest was really a lot of fun. along with parts of the mammals and a sousaphone player from preservation hall, he led us all through sing-a-long's of social import...
Posted by on Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:31:00 GMT

super sunday

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Posted by on Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:02:00 GMT

1965 and wakes the morning..

that is what it says on the ancient burlap calender my wife tacked to the wall next to my desk. there is a big rooster at the center looking at me with one eye warily, like he knows something i don't....
Posted by on Thu, 08 Jan 2009 13:35:00 GMT

god bless us all.....everyone!

it snowed the other day in new orleans. earliest on record and the first time in years. it was a pretty good one that actually began to stick. i had to force the dog outside, she's a bit old and appar...
Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:01:00 GMT

Japan Attacks Pearl Harbor

On December 7 1941 In two waves of terror lasting two long hours, they killed or wounded over 3,500 Americans and sank or badly damaged 18 ships - including all 8 battleships of the Pacific Fleet - an...
Posted by on Sun, 07 Dec 2008 09:46:00 GMT

vic, barack and john.

went to the vic chesnutt show a couple of days ago. an amazing performer. a deeply talented songwriter that leaves me breathless. makes me feel like a hack, ( alright no jokes out there!)heard the loc...
Posted by on Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:48:00 GMT

autumn and illinois

i was driving recently up the middle of our country, not quite the blues highway bob made his song about but the parallel road that goes much faster. when i got into illinois where cotton fields becom...
Posted by on Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:24:00 GMT

High Water Everywhere

The Mississippi is supposed to crest at 17ft. in New Orleans which means they will probably open the spillway diverting the river back into Lake Pontchartrain. I just came back from Asheville and whil...
Posted by on Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:19:00 GMT

pete

i saw the pete seeger program on american masters last night. it should be required viewing for all artists in training. i think it was b. springsteen who called him a citizen artist. i like the ...
Posted by on Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:04:00 GMT