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Big Jef Special

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About Me

We've been blessed to open up for so many of our musical heroes over the years, BR5-49, Southern Culture on the Skids, Hacienda Brothers, Drive By Truckers, Red Hot Poker Dots,Wayne Hancock, The Paladins, Kenneth Brian, the Tarbox Ramblers, Kandy Kane, Billy Bacon & the Forbidden Pigs, Ronnie Dawson,The Glenmont Popes, Unknown Hinson, Big Sandy & His Fly Right Boys, Jimbo Mathis, Tammy Fay Starlight, Devin Allman and so many more. We are playing somewhere around Orlando every month. So come and raise a Pabst Blue Ribbon to the unmarried ladies, with us, and if you like us, tell a friend, if you don't, TELL TWO FRIENDS! COWPUNK IS ALIVE AND WELL IN THE BIG JEF SPECIAL!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/26/2006
Band Website: bigjefspecial.com
Band Members: Jef Shumard - Lead Vocals/Guitar/Fiddle
Nadeem Khan - Stand up Bass/Backing Vocals
Brian Chodorcoff - Lead Guitar
Brian MaGuire - Drums
Alan Cowart - Drums

Influences: Hank Williams, the Blasters, Chuck Berry,the POGUES ,The Clash, Social Distortion, Patsy Cline, Dixie Chicks (not for the music so much, but for their courage) Butthole Surfers, Frank Zappa, Bill Haley and the Comets, Freddie Fender, Charlie Feathers, Ricky Nelson, The Everly Brothers, Generation X, Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Stray Cats, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys, Deke Dickerson, The Big Six, Kings of Nothing, The Racketeers, Drive By Truckers, Nashville Pussy, BILLI JOE SHAVER, JOHN D GRAHM, Etta James, Kandy Kane, DWIGHT YOAKUM,...DON'T FORGET YER WILLIE!
Sounds Like: I don't know, I've heard everything from our audience. It might be best for you all to come check it out yerself. : :
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Music

I haven't written in a while, this is Nads the bassist in BJS, I just wanted to say how much we appreciate having you guys come out and see us time and time again, some of you like 50 times in a row, ...
Posted by Big Jef Special on Thu, 17 Jul 2008 04:49:00 PST

Thank you all so very much

You all have stood by us through thick and thin and you will never know how much it means to us. We couldn't have hoped for a better CD release party, we had Thomas Wynn and the Believers, The Daniel ...
Posted by Big Jef Special on Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:53:00 PST

Watch out for this band scammer

  We played last night at The Copper Rocket to a meager crowd, well the weather was utter shit. We did a goshdarned good set regardless. There was a woman dancing up front, she seemed to dig it ...
Posted by Big Jef Special on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 08:00:00 PST

Our Band

Last night was the first time Jef and I practiced in a looooong time and it was really productive, he's written a bunch of new songs and they are really good. We need to strap ourselves in and get to ...
Posted by Big Jef Special on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 07:31:00 PST

Brian Maguire, Talibrian, Cannonball

I'm the voice of BJS right now because Jef's computer's taken a shit, and I haven't been able to really say anything about Brian because it comes only from me, and I'm not the band. The band is Brian,...
Posted by Big Jef Special on Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:12:00 PST

I am the parallel parking champion of the universe

Before our gig last Sunday with Big Sandy I parallel parked Jef's Cadillac in the tiniest possible space on Orange Avenue. I did hit Jef's bumper on Big Sandy's tour van and I might have hit the car b...
Posted by Big Jef Special on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:04:00 PST

Stupid mouth, too big.

Next time you see BJS just tell the bass player to shut the fuck up, it'll be the right thing to do.
Posted by Big Jef Special on Fri, 16 Feb 2007 10:17:00 PST

Brian's back, woo hoo.

I can't believe after a hiatus of at least a year Brian Chordocoff played with us last night at Uncle Lou's and it was nothing less than amazing. It's like he never left, he even played to the new son...
Posted by Big Jef Special on Fri, 22 Dec 2006 10:48:00 PST

Playing to strangers

It was so great to play to strangers last night. It was a private party at the totally cool new joint, Orlando Brewing Company on Atlanta Street. You all have got to go, it's out of downtown and they ...
Posted by Big Jef Special on Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:55:00 PST

IF WISHES WERE HORSES

Sarah got a dream she don't need no man /she sing the blues whenever she can/ lord, a little bit of heaven, was all she ever asked for... them silent moments deep in the night/ she find herself, makes...
Posted by Big Jef Special on Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:32:00 PST