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    Default Blues, Stomps, & Rags #34

    I haven't posted any contemporary musicians for a while, so I'll end 2018 with the blues guitar, ukelele, washboard, and mandolin player, D. Scott Riggs, who, with Jeremy Holland on upright bass, ukeleles, and saw, make up Spearman Brewers. I don't have much biographical information, but Scott might well be a member of Mandolin Cafe, if he chooses to share more. (Happy New Year to those reading this around the time it's posted -- or on any other New Year.) Here is the band's bio from their website:

    "The Spearman Brewers are a Gulf Coast based band that plays Panhandle Blues, a rich gumbo of Pre-War Delta, Piedmont, and Country Blues, with healthy doses of Jazz, Gospel, Hokum, Cajun, and Jug music thrown in for flavor. The Brewers were formed in 2001 by Brewmaster Scott Riggs as a vehicle to deliver the sounds of time-forgotten 78 RPM records, playing tunes by the likes of the Memphis Jug Band, Cannon's Jug Stompers, Mississippi Sheiks, Big Bill Broonzy, Tampa Red, and Robert Johnson. Since those early days the Brew has evolved into an original act, with albums "Won't You Come Go With Me", "Rue Blue", and "Another Round", as well as EP "One Drink Minimum", showcasing their homegrown spin on traditional American music.

    "The Brewers honor the past by bringing it to the present with original compositions based on the time-enduring styles of days gone by. It's the New Old Stuff, where the bottle hits the string."

    Spearman Brewers has a couple of free MP3's available at Mandolin Cafe: https://www.mandolincafe.com/mp3/

    Here's a solo blues piece with Riggs on mandolin. If the links don't work, search YouTube for "Spearman Brewers - Black Train Blues".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BtoEON1pzfk




    And here's a nice stomp that makes me want to "cakewalk into town" for a piece of King Cake, if there is such a thing. If the links don't work, search YouTube for "King Cake Stomp (Solo Mandolin)."

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuBJaBtjB6Q

    Last edited by Ranald; Dec-30-2018 at 10:22am. Reason: typo
    Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
    "I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
    Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.

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