Member Since: 2/15/2006
Band Website: lucindasieger.com
Band Members: Reid Savage/ guitarist, Bolly Userzewski/bass and on very special occasions guest bass player Winston Blissett. Bit of an elastic band depending on the place and the budget ideally I would go up to 14 members!!!!
Guests for those very rare special occasions: Clare Lindley /voilin, Mike Willox/keyboards, Count Dubulah bass & guitar, Neil Sparkes on congo's, Terry Neil/percussion/melodica, Nick Van Gelder drums/percussion
Influences: Influences are a wide range through time :Yma Sumac, Billy Holiday, Cesaria Evoria, Ella Fitzgerald, Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, Bebel Gilberto, Joyce, Ofra Haza, The Mamas and the Papas, Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks, Mary Coughlan, Bobby Gentry, Joan Armatrading, Carly Simon, Francois Hardy, Dionne Warwick, Anita Baker, Cassandra Wilson, Carmel, Stepahn Grapelli, Djanjo Reinhart, Willi Bobo, Perez Prado, Kraftwerk, Barbera Streisand, Norma Waterson, Oi Va Voie, The The, Blue Rondo a la Turque, Les Negres Vertes, Working Week, Tom Waits, Nick Drake, Blue Nile, Oscar Peterson, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Frank Sinatra, Duke Ellington, Chet Baker, The Beatles, Marvin Gaye, The Kinks, Lovin Spoonful, Elvis Presley, The Monkees, Randy Newman, Simon and Garfunkle, Earth Wind and Fire, The Isley Brothers, Genesis, Todd Rundgren, The Carpenters, Burt Bacharch, Stravinsky, Erik Satie, a huge influence from the old Hollywood movies of Gershwin, Rogers and Hammerstein, and much much more....basically great tunes, arrangements, harmonies, string lines, brass lines, great beats.
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Sounds Like: Nothing else really but if needs be imagine Astrud Gilberto in Glasgow with gentle guitars, lots of harmonies and very catchy tunes..
Record Label: www.elsewhen.org.uk
Type of Label: None