BRAD KEELER currently performs SOLO (Vintage Blues, Folk, Jazz, Originals) AND with the following groups:
"KEELER, MELVIN AND MORSE"- American Roots Music and Originals (Brad Keeler, Laddie Ray Melvin and Lyle Morse)........"WIDE RIVER"- alt.bluegrass (Brad Keeler, Dave McRae, Brett Dodd, Janet Dodd).............."CANNED MUSIC" -Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks and much more (Kathy and Steve Sackett, Linda Parman, Brad Keeler.......
Influences
Too many to list!
Sounds Like
Delta Blues, Piedmont/Ragtime Blues, folk, bluegrass, oldtime country, roots music, swing/jazz guitar, gritty bottleneck slide guitar, anachronistic vocal stylings............sounds like your radio inexplicably tuned in a broadcast from the 1930s...........OR the 1963 Newport Folk Festival..........
HELLO "FRIENDS": Thanks for stopping by............IN RESPONSE TO INQUIRIES.....I am really not a hermit-like curmudgeon who won't allow folks to post as "friends" ....... but have chosen to simply use this "space" as a medium to promote my music activities............WELCOME TO MYSPACE "MY-STYLE" ! You can contact me at flatpic6@aol.com (much easier than through myspace)..............AND NOW..........PRESENTING: BRAD KEELER..........self-taught multi-instrumentalist (flatpick guitar,
fingerstyle guitar, lap slide guitar, bottleneck slide guitar, 12-string guitar, mandolin, banjo, fiddle, electric and upright bass, washboard, harmonica, jug.......all featured on my many recordings)
..... singer/songwriter/composer......interpreter of vintage blues, jazz, and folk music..........Florida resident 1978-2000........left the heat, humidity and hurricanes behind for a new life in the new millennium in the Northwest............... first stage appearance 1978........"open-mic" regular in late 1970s and early 1980s, graduated to hosting open-mics, then to beach bar gigs........... burned out on Jimmy Buffet covers and folk/pop music........... moved to Piedmont and Delta blues and traditional Appalachian folk.............discovered resurgent coffee-house scene and began performing at festivals and venues throughout Florida and elsewhere around the USA............ placed First in flatpick guitar, fingerstyle guitar, lap slide guitar categories, and second place in mandolin at the 1999 FLORIDA OLD TIME MUSIC CHAMPIONSHIPS (Dade City, FL)............Has performed in (solo or in groups) Florida, Memphis TN, Minnesota, Connecticut, Arizona, Washington, Idaho, Montana, Oregon........... Opened for, or has performed (solo or with groups) at festivals featuring, luminaries such as Doc Watson, Bill Monroe, The Seldom Scene, The Infamous Stringdusters, Steve Kaufman, Dan Crary, Lucinda Williams, Alice Stuart, Jim and Jesse McReynolds, Etta Baker, Vassar Clements, Roy Book Binder, Bo Diddley, Robert Lockwood Jr., "Spider" John Koerner, Harvey Reid, Big Bill Morganfield, R.L. Burnside, The North Mississippi Allstars, Bill "Sauce Boss" Wharton, Peter Case, Electric Bonsai Band, Misty River, The Mammals, Utah Phillips, and others.......... Numerous self-produced albums including "38 STRINGS" (cassette), "SLASH PINE STOMP" (1998), "SONGS THAT YOU DON'T HEAR ON THE RADIO" (w/ Kim Roque 1999), "THAT'S THE WAY IT WAS BEFORE" (2000), "LONG LONESOME HIGHWAY VOL.1" (Live- 2001), "LONG LONESOME HIGHWAY VOL.2" (Live-2003), "ANACHRONISTIC BLUES" (2005), "THREE DIFFERENT WAYS" (Keeler, Melvin and Morse- 2005), "WILDFLOWER OF THE PALOUSE" (2006), "BRAD KEELER-CIRCA 1997-2003" (2008).......currently working on swing/gypsy/jazz album and promotional concert DVD, ...........CONTACT: flatpic6@aol.com
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