I had a couple of his LPs. He certainly was a unique performer. I really enjoyed his music. ---------- Wisdom does not always come with old age. Sometimes old age arrives alone.
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He lived in the PHILLY area, and from way back 70`s till now,He Played in lot`s of clubs around town, but more at The Main Point,and John & Peter`s....
I was at a Leon Redbone show in Dallas a couple of years ago and in between songs I stepped out into the lobby for a beer. While I was out he asked everybody in the audience to pull out their Bb harmonica. I was probably the only person in the house with a Bb and I was standing in line for a beer.
Redbone was a talented, quirky and utterly charming musician and performer. He fashioned a deep, resonating voice which oscillated from some forgotten chamber of the larynx, played sweet folk blues guitar in a manner Lightning Hopkins or Artie Traum would admire, and had a fascination for old timey songs, be they blues, torch songs, Vaudeville or Tin Pan Alley,anything catchy, old and unique that he could make new again. He also wrote some fine tunes himself. ---------- www.ted-burke.com
Cool documentary! I saw him at the Balboa Theatre here in San Diego in the late 70's-- Here's his Wiki page, just to pull back the curtain a little . . .
And here's a way to kill two birds with one stone (my best pun ever).
