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Mark Viator

About Me

Picked up the guitar ... crawled from the marshes of the Texas Gulf Coast ... grew lungs ... learned to sing ... took up songwriting ... moved to Austin ... met beautiful woman with beautiful voice ... took to the road for a few years ... settled back in Austin ... wrote more songs, had lots of dreams ... made records ... more to come ...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 30/03/2006
Band Website: www.markviator.com
Band Members: Susan Maxey (vocals), Ed Friedland (bass), Peter Schwarz (fiddle and bass), Richard White (drums)
Influences: Ry Cooder, Peter Case, The Band, Jackson Browne, Lowell George & Little Feat, JJ Cale, Ray Kane, David Lindley, Jack Kerouac, Salmon Rushdie, CG Jung, Robert Johnson, Tom Waits ...
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Taj Mahal & John Henry Nobles - (1979)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTpOK5pqCRI Incredible footage of Taj and Bones Nobles, who was a street performer I knew back in Beaumont in the mid 1980's. He was always around street fe...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:53:00 GMT

Groundhog Day Loop

Who said time marches on? As I approach my 50th birthday I can certainly feel the truth in that statement, but sometimes we can get a glimpse into a different paradigm. Just the other night Susan and...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:19:00 GMT

Just Looking To Hang Out

Well hello, everyone. I'm making this sound like an introduction because I've neglected this space for so long. As Art Blondin said to me recently, "just shit or get off the pot." Well, you can te...
Posted by on Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:39:00 GMT