Member Since: 13/03/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/drbutlershatstandmedicineband
Band Members: Andrew 'blind boy' Butler. Folk singer, novelty instrumentalist, Harmonica and Jews-Harp virtuoso, poet, mystic, apocalyptist, philosopher, polymath, romantic and bricoleur.
Influences: The breeze that blows through the forest, the spiral on the shell of a snail, the art of the blind, the process of inspired redaction, 'The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross', mountains and the sea, the amanita muscaria and you.
Sounds Like: Sam Hinton, Utah Philips, Pete Seeger, Mike Seeger, Hobart Smith, Ivor Cutler, Sonny Terry, Ted Hughes, William Blake, Enoch, Bert Jansch, Huddie Leadbetter, Cliff Edwards, Mississippi John Hurt, Lonnie Donegan, Cisco Houston, Davey Graham, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Hermann Hesse, Aleister Crowley,Tedham Porterhouse, Mike Stevens, Donovan, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Max Miller, Leroy Troy, Noel Coward, George Formby, 'Harmonica' Frank Floyd, DeFord Bailey, David Holt, Washboard Sam, Rainer Maria Rilke, Skip James, Memphis Jug Band, Jesse Fuller. Theis the Blind, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Hua Yanjun (blind Ah Bing), Blind Boy Fuller Number One, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell.
Type of Label: Major