Dan Lawson

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Member Since: 5/30/2006
Band Website: danlawson.com
Band Members: Dan "Lawman" Lawson - Guitar, Vocals Erik "Scifibassman" MacPherson - 5 and 6 string Bass Guitar, Vocals Tim "The Toolman" Provost - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Influences: My Family, Also My Uncle Roy Parks, Mark Farner, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Billy F. Gibbons, Duane Allman, Richard Betts, Gary Moore, Danny Gatton, Buddy Guy, there are so many Greats that came before us!! We Owe Them All.Since the 1980s, blues has also continued in both traditional and new forms. The Texas rock-blues style emerged which used guitars in both solo and rhythm roles. In contrast with the West Side blues, the Texas style is strongly influenced by the British rock-blues movement. Major artists of the Texas style are Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dan Lawson, The Fabulous Thunderbirds and ZZ Top. The 1980s also saw a revival of John Lee Hooker's popularity. He collaborated with Carlos Santana, Miles Davis, Robert Cray and Bonnie Raitt. Eric Clapton, known for his performances with the Blues Breakers and Cream, made a comeback in the 1990s with his MTV Unplugged album, in which he played some standard blues numbers on acoustic guitar.In the 1980s and 1990s, blues publications such as Living Blues and Blues Revue began to be distributed, major cities began forming blues societies, outdoor blues festivals became more common, and more nightclubs and venues for blues emerged. Cool MySpace stuff Pimp MySpace
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Sounds Like: Blues performers such as John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters continued to perform to enthusiastic audiences, inspiring new artists steeped in traditional blues, such as New York-born Taj Mahal. John Lee Hooker blended his blues style with rock elements and playing with younger white musicians, creating a musical style that can be heard on the 1971 album Endless Boogie. B.B. King’s virtuoso guitar technique earned him the eponymous title "king of the blues". In contrast to the Chicago style, King’s band used strong brass support from a saxophone, trumpet, and trombone, instead of using slide guitar or harp. Tennessee-born Bobby "Blue" Bland, like B.B. King, also straddled the blues and R&B genres.The British blues musicians of the early 1960s inspired a number of American blues-rock fusion performers, including Canned Heat, Janis Joplin, Johnny Winter, The J. Geils Band, Ry Cooder. Many of Led Zeppelin’s earlier hits were renditions of traditional blues songs. One blues-rock performer, Jimi Hendrix, was a rarity in his field at the time: a black man who played psychedelic rock. Hendrix was a skilled guitarist, and a pioneer in the innovative use of distortion and feedback in his music. Through these artists and others, blues music influenced the development of rock music. Magic Sam’s West Side Soul album cover in the late 1960s, the West Side style blues emerged in Chicago with Magic Sam, Magic Slim and Otis Rush. West Side style has strong rhythmic support from a rhythm guitar, bass electric guitar, and drums. Albert King, Buddy Guy, and Luther Allison had a West Side style that was dominated by amplified electric lead guitar.
Record Label: Strawhouse/Sony
Type of Label: Major