..................Bex Marshall Devonshire lass who likes to live all over the world, "Every where is just a day away" thats if your off peak. Drives a Yamaha XJ900 when i dont have to take a P.A with me!!! Resides in North London best place in the world and im hardly ever here!! My work is my hobby and my hobby is my work..lucky eh! Loves Travelling... usually on a motorbkie or in a vintage car! Scrannying through second hand shops;..BARGAIN!,... Top quality food and drink.....i live in the best restuarant in the world you know!!! Cowboy boots..i have over 30 pairs.... Jumping into cold swimming pools after running for 20 mins, ... Encore after encore,...you gotta get em at it! ... Civilized late night drinking .. oh go on then.. People who are humble and are hugley talented dont know it! Finding money in pockets,... New strings on my guitar...sponsors welcome.... ,.... Watching SOPRANOS. EH WHATTDYA GONNA DO!!! Hostng n throwing parties cause mine are the best!,..... Hammocks...Double ones, Gardens in constant bloom,..... Getting of the plane in NY,.....
Feeding people off my fork....
Playing in a Rock N Roll Band. Peforming a solo show and getting all the guitar solos perfect ha ha ha ha!!!! Presenting radio shows for the lost, lonley, sados, loosers, greebos, boozers, wasters, strays, lovers, nutterz, crackpots, jackpoters, and the beautiful people of the night!!!!....Naps (im a lazy lioness....)BALANCE in everything is the secret of life and lots of water...especially after a bender.... debut Album Bootlace limited signed copies availible....artists who have soul, perform with feeling....people who are enjoying the journey.
( Album artwork credits:Cover Design Bex Marshall, body painting by Shannon Fennell www.shannonfenell.com and Anne Freeman, Photography: Natalie Leaves www.leavingimages.com other photography Chris kruber.com,Andrew Darbyshire, Nick Tansley and Adrian Moulton www.lacunaimages.co.uk.)Andy and Sue Fielding
Influences
Etta James, Tom Waits, Bessie Smith, Janis Joplin, Muddy Waters, The Band, John Lee Hooker, Eric Sardinas, Black Crows, Son House, Faces, Sceaming Jay Hawkins, Eagles, Rolling Stones, , Stevie Ray Vaughan, Pig Iron, Imperial Vipers, Chet Atkins, Memphis Minnie, Jose Feliciano, Bonnie Raite,, Sarah Vaughn, Lou Reed, Thin Lizzy, Tom Petty, Frank Zappa, Roy Harper, David Bowie, Jon Mayer, Fleetwood Mac, Lynard Skinnard, Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, Truckee Brothers, Chris Whitley, Nickleback, Creed, Counting Crows, Joe Bonnamassa, Asylum Street Spankers, Alison Krauss, The Who, The Kinks, Green Day, AC DC, Bread, , Imperial Crowns, The Bottlerockets, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Simon and Garfunkel, Red Hot Chillis, The Clash, Foo Fighters,Ebony Tower, Cream, Drive By Truckers, John lee Hooker, Kieth Richards, Hal Ketchum, Alejandro Escavedo, Dan Penn, Steve Wynn, Susie Quatro, Chrissie HindMozart, John Coltraine, Johnny cash, Bob Dylan, Albert Ayler, Patty Griffin, Emmy Lou Harris, Los Lobos, Led Zepplin, Mighty Baby, Tony Joe White, Booker Whiite, R.L Burnside, Count Basie, Freddie King, Chatam County Line, Dead String Brothers, Duke Ellington, Dwight Yokam, EAT, Eddie Cochran, The Who, Frank Sinatra, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Hank Williams III, The Byrds, Iron And Wine, Captain Beefheart, Charlie Parker, Ramones, The Clash, Bonso Dog DoDa Band, The Cramps, The Reverant Horton Heat, Dexter Gordon, Dick Dale, Hayseed Dixie, Crooked Jades, Neil Young, CC Adcock, Vallejo, The Barker Band, Five Horse Johnson, Buddy and Julie Miller, Chuck Prophet, MC 5, McCoy Tyler, The Memphis Radio Kings, Merle Haggard, Michelle White, Missippi Frd McDowell, Thelonious Monk, Mose Allison, Motorhead, Pink Fairies, Coco Taylor, The LAs, Lamp Chop, Lead Belly, Lee Scratch Perry, The Snakes, Tres Chicas, Nat King Cole, Catlin Cary and Thad Cockrell, Blue Aeroplanes, Curtis Mayfield, Oh Sussanah, Old Crow Medicine Show, Ottis Reading, Tom Ovans, Charlie Parker, Frank Zappa, Fred McDowle, Freedy Johnson, Leon Russel, Leister Young, Link Ray, Little Feat, Lonny Listen Smith, Fun Lovin Criminals, Gene Krupa, George Thoroughgood, Gillian Welch, The Gourds, Government Mule, Grand Drive, Republic Of Loose, Dar Williams , Nat Adderly, Neil Diamond, Neko case, Al Green, Anne Mccue, Art Blakey, Green Day, Love, John Spencer, Joni Mitchell, The Guthries, Guy Clark BB King, Bad Company, Beach Boys, John Lennon, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, T Model Ford, T-Rex, Television, Towns Van Zandt, Velvet Underground, Warren Zevon, Whiskey Town, Clutch, ELO, Eliza Gilkinson, Los Lonley Boys, Dolly Parton, Bill Evans, Billy Joe Shaver, Kenny Burrell, The Kinks, Black Water Gospel,Blind Willie Johnson, Blue Mountain, The Wiyos, ZZ Top,Ella Fitzgerald, Elliot Murphy, Elmore James, Emily Maguire, Eric Dolphy, Earnest Tub, Hammell On Trial, Sand Rubies, Sarah Harmer, Sarah Vaughn, Shelby Lynn, Slobberbone, Sonny Boy Williams, Sonny Rollins, South Austin Jug Band, Sparkle Horse, Steve Earle, Colman Hawkins, Hound Dog Taylor, Howlin Wolf, Iggy Pop, J.J Cale, The Jam, Jelly Roll Morton, Jimmy Hendrix, Jimmy Reed, Joe Bonamassa, John Fahey, John Martyn, Johhny Dowd, Ray Charles, Ritchmond Fontaine, Robert Johnson, Tennasse Ernie Ford, Roy Orbison, Ray Harper, Johnny Thunders, Damien Rice, The Bastard Sons Of Johnny Cash, Bob Log III, Bob Willls, Davis Alan Coe, Miles Davis, Dean Martin, Deep Purple, BR 549, Dale Watson, Perter Green, The Pogues, Pops Staples, Proffessor Long Hair, Rainer, Ralph Stanley,Robert Plant,Gavin Glass.
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Musically; " An explosion of blue- hot acoustic roots rock, poker twisted with a whippin of Bluegrass. Bex Marshall has character! Her songs will show you that, an artist of jaw dropping talent, a guitarist with a unique earthy melting pot of a voice: Joplin Soul, Bonnie Raitt slide and the originality of Memphis Minnie, she belts it out, rips it up, delivers a performance undeniably HOT HOT HOT!. "Bex has a terrific voice and she plays guitar like a goddess, a cocktail of Joplin and Hendrix" (Alan Whittaker SOLFEST)
Hailing from Devon, now settled in London, a croupier from the age of 18 and her travels took her around the world, dealing illegal poker games in Amsterdam to hitch hiking around the world and always with a guitar on her back, busking, to headlining she’s done had her fair share of character building adventures being a writer/player and singer her musical influences are varied and many Muddy Waters to Led Zeppelin, Joplin (Scott and Janis) to Stevie Ray Vaughan, Feliciano to Dylan she takes a little form a lot!! And being the product of two completely different family’s, one blue blooded, landed gentry the other Irish Romany’s she had a great live musical background growing up going to the gigs of her uncles, one gave her a 1963 Gibson Hummingbird when she was 11 which inspired her to get serious.
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Classical guitar playing was her first passion then flamenco to country and on to blues roots rock, she is a troubadour, telling her tales with factual humour and wit, a musical inspiration, poetry to blues, instrumental energy, sing-a-long like you known the song forever, emotional empathy and raucous interaction people gawp at her passionate playing, every gigs a winner baby! .... always Bex, but never the same!
Bex was the first and only ever woman to be invited to the International guitar festival in Clonikilty festival in cork this September....sharing the t-shirt with Thin Lizzys Eric Bell, Preston Reed, Matt Churchill etc. .
Glastonbury festival 05 saw Bex play on four shows (inc acoustic and leftfield stage) leading up to a full 28-date summer tour with the U.K sell out bluegrass band Hayseed Dixie culminating at the London Forum. The Reno brothers, Dale and Don Wayne Reno also guest on three of Bex studio tracks on the new album.
Bex Marshall gig at Americana Tonight at Douglas corner hosted this spur of the moment performance of Duelin Banjos by Bex Marshall and Don Wayne Reno from Hayseed Dixie
The Fleadh 04 was a also a special time when she was on the bill with Bob Dylan, The Counting Crows and John Prine....
The debut album Bootlace has been greatly accepted on local and National Radio through out the U.K and Europe and the imminent recording of the second record will be forthcoming, scheduled for Nov07 recorded in North London. Her guitar style has been compared to Rory Gallagher in Ireland and a female Stevie Ray in Austin! and her unique combination of blue grass pickin, slide blues and electric riffs has been burning audiences all year, All this and much more from a solo artist who never uses backing tracks or special effects, its…”One Girl, One Guitar…One Off!!!
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Bex Marshall is about to take the world of 6 strings by the notes and nine ball it.
Your musical vocabulary has just been updated!!!!!!
Gigs supports to date include
BOB DYLAN (Fleadh, Finsbury Park 04).............
ROY HARPER, (JAN 07)...................
STRANGLERS (Huntington), ..........
COUNTING CROWS ..........
TONY JOE WHITE several times (Borderline 06) ...........
BILLY BRAGG (Austin texas) ................
THE ACOUSTIC STRAWBS (New York 03)............
CHRIS WHITLEY (LONDON 03)
THE YARDBIRDS (London 04)..............
CHRISTY MOORE (Finsbury Park 04)............
ALEJANDRO ESCOVEDO (St Martins Church, Piccadilly London).......
ALABAMA 3 (Glastenbury 05) ............
MAGIC NUMBERS (Shepards Bush 06).........
ROBERT PLANT(LONDON 06)
JOHN PRINE (LONDON 04).............
HAYSEED DIXIE (28 date U.K Tour 05) ...........
THE LEVELLERS(SOLFEST 07)
THIN LIZZYS ERIC BELL (Clonikilty Guitar Fest 07)
Bex new album will be availible in the new year
if you would like to pre order it you can do
by emailing ruthlesley1@yahoo.co.uk....
Wilberts Medley
XX Hope the new album is doing well :-) Lizzie B This week's chart!!!!! 4th July #1 Urban Reverb - Miss you. #2 Medicine - Msanima. #3 Richard Capener - White Water. #4 Lizzie B - Honest never met you #5 Bex Marshall - Kitchen Table
