busker4freedom

Music:

Member Since: 30/04/2006
Band Website: jesseslokum.com
Band Members: Myself, Jesse Slokum , as Busker4FREEDOM + whoever I can talk into playing...bass, accordion, lap-steel guitar, congas, tamborine...
Influences: You'll find PEOPLE on my FRIENDS list who are obviously dead, but have some seriously dedicated fans who carry their work on through the wonder of recordings...people like Memphis Minnie and Blind Willie McTell - although never experiencing the widespread awareness of them that exists now when they were alive, nevertheless made recordings whose soul and sound seeded the imagination of many people of my generation, those people who reached their teens and twenties in the late nineteen fifties...

Now here's my influences list:

ANYTHING by Alan WATTS including this: THIS COMMENTARY ON MUSIC & LIFE...animated by the SOUTH PARK GUYS

Woody Guthrie, Arlo Guthrie, "Joad" Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Richie Havens, Fred Neil, Phil Ochs, Eric Von Schmidt, Joan Baez, Richard & Mimi Baez-Farina, Michelle Shocked, Country Joe & the Fish, Leon Russell, Utah Phillips, Ramblin' Jack Elliot, Tom Rush, the Beatles - as a group AND separately - Buzzy Linhart, Danny O'Keefe, The Byrds, The Band, as a group and separately, The Dharma BUMS, ZEN Tricksters, the Grateful DEAD, The Original Jefferson Airplane, when Jorma and Jack Cassidy were members, Neil Young, Louis Armstrong, CAB Calloway, Fats Waller, John Coltrane, The Ink Spots, The Harp Tones, Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke, Bob Marley, Burning SPEAR...Mark Bingham & Caroline Peyton, both separately and as members of the Screaming Gypsy Bandits...Will Davey Satterfield (May he r.i.p.). Martin Simpson, Jessica Radcliffe, Randy Handley, and a Banjo player named "HEAVY" that I heard at the Freight & Salvage in Berkeley, CA - He could play PURPLE HAZE ... on banjo and make it work! A long time M.C. at the Freight & Salvage, whose stage name was MUGS MUGGLES (he taught me the meaning of SLA-A-A-ACK...LOL!!!) Want to visit my "ALTER-ego?" ( Diogenes DELARUE )

Moogy CoWrote Ya Gotta Have Friends with Buzzy Linhart

I no longer felt alone after I first saw/heard Irwin Corey, and when people complain about my cryptic obtusity, I tell them I have a certificate from Corey's Rhetorical Institute of Bamboozlement - that's C.R.I.B. for all you acronym fans...

There's only ONE...

Sounds like a perfect storm to me...LOL!!!

Let's follow that with some REAL classic stuff

STAY TUNED, for more "influences"
Sounds Like: the quiet voice in your head that NEVER screams or steers you wrong...
Record Label: KOLO Records
Type of Label: Indie