The Iceman
798 posts
Mar 17, 2013
4:40 AM
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Baskerville Willy....name of a British quasi blues band..sounds like a mixture of old Tom Waits, hipster music, G. Love and that spooky style of the Cowboy Junkies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlEi1CRQTDE
Any info on these guys? I really like them.
They do have a harmonica player who plays on some cuts of the recording I heard (sounds live in front of an audience of about 15). Sometimes he adds to the group sound.. other times he seems to overplay and it interferes with the open atmospheric sound of the band.
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The Iceman
Last Edited by The Iceman on Mar 17, 2013 4:48 AM
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Kingley
2410 posts
Mar 17, 2013
6:19 AM
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Sorry, can't help you. Never heard of Baskerville Willy before.
At first I thought it was some kind of horrible sexual disease which could only be caught when wearing a deerstalker.
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dougharps
365 posts
Mar 17, 2013
9:07 AM
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I like the video of the song, and the samples from the album available on Amazon are great!
Thanks for posting this! There is so much great music out there that you don't often hear about.
An Amazon album review by someone named Jeremy Smith states that:
"Bill Rutherford scores a hit with this sophisticated selection of blues-based parables. Expanding beyond his first album "Elementary", which was live-recorded Chicago Blues with the award-winning Paris-based Baskervilles Blues Band, Rutherford, now in London, adds to the harp/guitar/vocals of "Elementary" with extended story telling..."
(and why does the captcha still wipe my text if my posting is slow!)
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Martin
279 posts
Mar 17, 2013
11:04 AM
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This is not what you asked for, but they have an album on Spotify.
I must say I like quite a bit, although the harmonica is not this band´s strong point. The play blues without all that hard-driving shuffle energy that´s become a sine qua non for almost all blues bands. Instead they create tension and some original soundscapes.
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Baskerville Willy
1 post
Sep 16, 2013
2:18 PM
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Thanks for picking up on our stuff. Here's some info from the horses mouth.
The heart of the band is made up of 2 guys from San Francisco on upright bass and drums: Danny Montgomery and Marten Ingle, and me, the songwriter, vocalist,guitarist, harp player and I'm from the UK, Bill Rutherford.
We three play on all tracks of the CD.
If you listen closely to some of the tracks there is a quite a bit of low harp..it is a pretty wierd sound and that is done by a harp pioneer Mox Gowland (look him up on You tube). His low harp sound adds extra atmosphere to a handful of the tracks: "green coyote", "illinois volare" and "have to laugh". There is a more standard blues harp sparring between Mox and me on "train that you ride". I did the rest of the harp on the album, so I take the blame/credit for all that. The band was formed in Paris France, played in Germany and now trying to get into the UK circuit. It would be a blast to play the US. If we do, hope we get down your way.
all the best,
BW (sorry Kingley, too late to change the name now)
www.Baskervillewilly.com
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