Member Since: 2/19/2005
Band Website: youtube.com/rizorkestra
Band Members:
Influences: rizorkestra roots-music-family world map
some wonderful record labels:
smithsonian folkways
dust-to-digital
arhoolie
rounder
shanachie
yazoo
nonesuch
deutsche gramophone
jsp
okeh
black swan
paramount
columbia
chess
jvc
document
revenant
blue note
delmark
stax/volt
vanguard
library of congress
ocora...
...and some wonderful musicians:
blind blake
scrapper blackwell
ramblin' thomas
robert johnson
dock boggs
casey bill weldon
joseph spence
b.b.& group (prison songs)
norfolk jubilee quartet
bascom lamar lunsford
sister cally fancy
charlie patton
uncle dave macon
luther magby
blind willie johnson
empire jubilee quartet
masked marvel
blind lemon jefferson
coley jones
geeshie wiley
"22"
kokomo arnold
son house
jim jackson
lonnie johnson
eddie lang
jaybird coleman
tampa red
frank palmes
bessie smith
c.b. & axe gang
a.a.gray
big bill broonzy
elders mcintorsh & edwards sanctified singers
memphis jug band
gus cannon
golden gate quartet
sleepy john estes
lil mcclintock
leadbelly
dinwiddie quartet
mattie may thomas
rev. j.m.gates
john lee hooker
rev. gary davis
mississippi john hurt
nehemiah skip james
sister mary nelson
jesse fuller
casey bill weldon
roosevelt graves
bo carter
furry lewis
jimpson
tommy settlers and his blue moaner
sister rosetta tharpe
josh white
texas alexander
the trumpeteers
georgia tom dorsey
brother claude ely
mound city blue blowers
sister o.m. terrell
bessie jones and the georgia sea island singers
roy smeck
washboard sam
louis armstrong
memphis slim
willie dixon
blind willie mctell
edward w. clayborn
alfred lewis
rev. a.w. nix
memphis sanctified singers
arizona dranes
nugrape twins
dorothy love coates
the blue chips
eddie head & his family
dock reed and vera hall ward
goldia jaynes
kokomo arnold
mahalia jackson
peter chatman
rev. sister mary nelson
bukka white
blind mamie forehand
willie newbern
cotton top mountain sanctified singers
henry thomas
ed & lonnie young
empire jubilee quartet
otto virgall
rosie hibler & family
john lee "sonny boy" williamson
t.c.i. women's four
arthur "big boy" crudup
prof. johnson & his gospel singers
henry spaulding
laura henton
sol hoopii
taskiana four
charlie pool
rev. anderson johnson
richard "rabbit" brown
the famous blue jay singers
henry thomas
jimmie strothers
elder david ross
sonny terry
jesse "babyface" thomas
ramblin' thomas...
and, also....some modern wonderful musicians:
chet atkins
taj mahal
ry cooder
bob wills
aretha franklin's gospel singing
ali farka toure
blind boys of alabama
cephas & wiggins
leon redbone
robert randolph & the family band
sonny rollins
jimi hendrix ...
Sounds Like: one-man-folk-roots-blues-band
guitar, dobro, vocal, fife, kazoo, with hi-hat and bass drum playing simultaneously. repertoire consists of early blues songs, jug band tunes, gospel music classics, instrumental stomps, romps, jumps, and rags, early country music, early jazz, tin pan alley tunes, folk songs and novelty songs, with the additional insertion of themes and motifs from sousa marches, european classical music composers, musical theater and film music, in original compositions and improvisations.
and...
everyone's welcome in the
open invitiational "rizorkestra volunteer chorus"
drop by...bring yer singin' voice!
Record Label: unstrictly roots
Type of Label: Indie