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Location: AMERICA NORTH: USA: Connecticut (CT)
Signed up: 12 May 2007 10:06 PM
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Sounds like: Blues
Influenced by: Tony Joe White,Jimi Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Ry Cooder, JJCale, Mark Easton, Jimi Pocious,Bob Dylan, Sonny Landreth
Web site: http://www.kingcakeband.com

Biography

 I have been playing guitar and writing songs since the late '60s. I have played, written and recorded in a wide variety of genres, including Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Punk, New Wave, Country, Bluegrass, and Folk, but I have always had a Blues band on the side. In the '90s I finally settled on doing what I love best, Blues and Roots oriented music.  I've always been fascinated by music of all kinds, and grew up in a very music-rich environment. My aunt and uncle were accomplished classical musicians and my parents were avid folk music fans. The first concert I went to with my parents was Joan Baez and Bob Dylan in '63. On Friday nights my uncle would get out his guitar and the whole family would sing folk songs around the table after supper. We were also avid Beatles fans at our house. On Saturday nights in the summer I would ride my bike up top the top of the hill on our farm and tune in to the Grand Ol' Opry on my 9volt transistor radio. I was turned on to Blues by my father when played him the album "Are You Experienced?"and said, "Dad, this is what I want to do". My Dad said, "Well if you want to play like that, you've got to learn the Blues first." Then he took me down to "Barkers" our local discount store and bought me a Muddy Waters album. I've been hooked ever since.  Indigeonous music has always held a certain fascination for me because the songs are about everyday life. As a songwriter that's what I do best, tell stories about my own experiences in life in a way that I hope is accessible. I currently live in rural northeast Connecticut with my wife, daughter, a dog, some cats and a few chickens. My Band King Cake plays Blues and Roots music with bite and a sense of humor. King Cake was formed in mid 2004 to help me record some original songs. The chemistry was so good that we decided to become an official band. Our repertoire consists of mostly Louisiana style Blues, classic Country and Western, Swamp Rock and catchy Originals with the odd Hendrix tune thrown in for good measure.The King Cake Story as told by Frog Boy:  I started hanging out in rest stop bathrooms and met up with Joe while selling cigarette butts to desperate smokers. In 1979 this was not a good business to be in but, I was feeling kind of addled at that point in my life as I had been abducted by aliens and taken aboard a UFO for an unspecified amount of time during the previous October... Playing music together just seemed to be the logical thing to do. At some point later on we met up with Turk when Joe and I found ourselves suddenly under a bridge on an abandoned stretch of railroad tracks. Tom claims to be an alien and I'm inclined to believe him, though not totally convinced....  The three of us walked the tracks for many miles and pretty soon we came to a refrigerator box city where we met up with Todd who had played with Dorsey back in the '40s. Joe, Turk and I pooled our 46 cents and were able to get a box for the night. It turns out that many of the people in this cardboard community had come from missing or crashed airline flights. Black helicopters would occasionally drop supplies.... but that is another story.
Three days later finally made it out of the woods to the main road. Frank picked us up hitchhiking, or so we thought. Actually he had gotten out of the his seat while driving to change an 8-track tape in the deck that was under the back seat. The van had driven off onto the shoulder and come to a stop. By the time he realized what had happened we had all piled in. Grateful to have help changing tapes he agreed to give us a ride. About a hundred miles later we coasted into the parking lot of a seedy road house in east Texas on fumes and realized that we were broke with no money for gas or food. The owner desperate for a band because the band he had booked had canceled hired us on the spot. And the rest is history.....

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