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About Me

Colin Allured is a graduate of the North Carolina School of the Arts in classical guitar. He has also performed and recorded with the original rock group Thinking Plyers for the past 13 years. He plays solo in Winston-Salem weekly and is available for gigs and recordings.Family Tree: If Van Morrison and Willie Nelson had a baby, with Sam Cooke and Nina Simone the grandparents on the Morrison side, and John Lennon and Steely Dan(use your imagination) the grandparents on the Nelson Side, and the abundant cousins including Paul Simon, Bob Marley, Leonard Cohen, Bjork etc. You get the Lineage that birthed Colin Allured musically. But this is simply the last generation. Founding Fathers of Classical Music both Western and East Indian as well as all the folk musics of all cultures are the great ancestors of this musician.Writing Lineage is Sufi Mystic Hazrat Inayat Khan, Walt Whitman, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.One learns from true teachers not by mere imitation, but by imbibing the essence of the teacher and then using it the context of the pecularities of ones own life and mind and thoughts and heart and time. The natural result in relating to ones teachers in this way is originality.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 4/29/2006
Band Website: ThinkingPlyers.com
Band Members: Colin Allured: Guitar and voice...Also, Check out THINKING PLYERS
Influences: Willie Nelson, Van Morrison, Sam Cooke, Nina Samone, Leonard Cohen, Buffy St. Marie,Johny Hartman, John Coltrane, Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Fred Neil, Bjork, Hank Williams, Radiohead, Billie Holiday, Digable Planets, Paul Simon, The Beatles, the Innocence Mission, Tom Waits, Ravi Shankar, Solos, Wagner, Bach, Jurassic 5, Brahms, Vaughn Williams, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald....
Sounds Like: A thorough mixture of all these influences to create a unique "style that changes styles", while at the same time being focused on the universal aspects of musicianship in each style. The voice has a tamber resembling a cello or an alto flute, guitar has roots in classical technique, jazz and Indian classical music.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Tales from India's Kumbha Mela Festival 2007-Part 1

After the 16 hour train ride, exhausted, bewildered, cold and hungry ....we made it to the camp just in time for prayer with Swamiji. I was so happy to be off th...
Posted by Colin Allured on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:25:00 PST

Tales from India's Kumbha Mela Festival- Part 2

For some reason, 3 days after the first, we had a repeat of the procession of Mahamandaleshwars led by the Naga Babas. This time I was prepared for the hardships and with a few days rest I was in a mu...
Posted by Colin Allured on Sun, 18 Feb 2007 10:06:00 PST

What does Thinking Plyers mean?

Today I got an e-mail: This is what it said:::::::: Ok, I'm stumped. What's thinkingplyers? If it were thinkingplayers I would get it, but I don't get this one at all. ...
Posted by Colin Allured on Sun, 04 Feb 2007 03:33:00 PST

Om Saraswati Hri So Ha

Goddess of Music and Poetry.....Muse......Spirit of Inspiration....... Salutations I offer Thee.....Knowledge and Wisdom flow from her Divine Intelligence....May we bathe in That River ........
Posted by Colin Allured on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 10:49:00 PST

Check out THINKING PLYERS in my top 8

For more of my music, (specifically some electric sitar playing) check out Ananda Dream in the Thinking Plyers play list. I've played with twin brothers Ryan and Paul Westbro...
Posted by Colin Allured on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:36:00 PST

Booking Colin Allured

I am looking to start booking tours (coffee shops, theatres, smokeless bars and Yoga studios) along the east coast, especially from North Carolina to New Jersey, where lives my buddy Chuck from Ghanda...
Posted by Colin Allured on Sat, 26 Aug 2006 07:16:00 PST

Song Fragment

Chorus Stay Calm, my friend Don't Rush your Lunch, my friend You got a whole life to spend One moment at a time(Repeat) Verse There's gonna be somethings that will thrill and excite you There's ...
Posted by Colin Allured on Mon, 26 Jun 2006 04:16:00 PST

Immortal Light Body

I love your Energy Body, that dissolves into omnipresent light everytime you close your eyes.
Posted by Colin Allured on Sun, 25 Jun 2006 01:26:00 PST