People think of us as sort of a retro band because of the sounds we use, but people who know music can hear that there's a lot of stuff in there just in the way we lay our beats and the bass lines, and just the way we put the music together that's actually pretty new. And we've had the opportunity to play in front of these huge audiences who've never heard our music before. When the Honeydrops released their debut, Soul Tub!, in 2008, they specialized in straightforward re-creations of classic blues sounds, spending as much time playing boisterous New Orleans R&B as they did laying back in a West Coast style, but as the 2010s progressed, they synthesized their disparate influences, culminating in the ambitious 2018 double album Call It Home, Vols. April 17 ///Keller Auditorium ///Portland, OR* His immersion in American culture was sought out and not inherited. Thats something that we really aim to do. Leader Lech Wierzynski, an amazingly pliant, deeply soulful singer who doubles on guitar and trumpet, wrote 11 of the 13 selections. Singer/trumpeter Lech Wierzynski, a native of Warsaw, Poland, formed the California Honeydrops with drummer Ben Malament in Oakland in the late 2000s. Witold Leszczyski (16 August 1933 - 1 September 2007) [1] was a Polish film director and screenwriter. I started playing in school and I had a great teacher, whose name was Vince McCool and then I had another great teacher, Marcus Belgrave, who was a well-known jazz musician. March 28///The Middle East///Cambridge, MA When I first came out here I started working with some older R&B musicians. The Honeydrops' more unusual instruments include a home-made gutbucket bass, jug, and washboard. Musicians in a wide variety of genre, Northern Colorado Center for Investigative Reporting, Paraguay's long-ruling party scores an easy presidential election win, Basketball legend Larry 'Gator' Rivers, longtime Globetrotter, has died at 73, Authorities are offering $80K for information about the suspected Texas shooter, Pope Francis says he is open to helping return Ukrainian children taken to Russia, Taj Mahal Should Be Named For A Temple: Hes A Temple Of Music, 'Hawkeye' Herman Teaches Children How The Blues Had A Baby, Musicians Arent the Only Stars, Songs Can Be Headliners Too. Its a song that i heard Bonnie sing each and every night when we toured with her and her band 3 years ago and i never got tired of hearing it. Collective in Berkely. They said, Hey, were gonna open our doors on this day that were always usually closed and all youve gotta do is bring as many people threw that door as possible and well give you all the profits. And we did it. 2023 Getty Images. When we started we literally made an album on garage band. I played with a couple of guys form Johnny Otis's old group, Shuggie Otis's dad, and there was a band I played in for a bunch of years with a lot of older cats. That was an old band from the twenties. Either when you hear his, Michael Hawkeye Herman passes along his love of the Blues and lets young people know the importance of the music in the development of American culture, For possibly three centuries the song St.
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