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Buckshot Soup
Country / Bluegrass / Roots Music

Straight from the country kitchen, into your homes



Derby, Midlands
United Kingdom

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   Buckshot Soup: General Info
Member Since3/21/2005
Band Websitewww.buckshotsoup.co.uk
Band MembersDuke "Whiskey" Williams - Vocals, Guitar, Harmonica, Mandolin;

Bobbi Lee Chalmers - Vocals, Kazoo;

Ritchie "On-The-Barrel" Head - 6-string Banjo, Guitar, Dobro;

Chuck Walzner - Upright Bass.

The 5th member of the Soup, the man at the back - 23 an' available - the engineer, Mr. Enis Wangford
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InfluencesWe sometimes wear our influences on our sleeves, and have been know to cover the likes off:

In alphabetical order:

Ryan Adams
The Be Good Tanyas
Johnny Cash
Elizabeth Cotton
Stacey Earle
Steve Earle
The Jayhawks
Robert Johnson
Leadbelly
Old Crow Medicine Show
Gram Parsons
John Prine
Jimmie Rodgers
Queen
Doc Waston
Hank Williams III

Here's a live version of the Robert Johnson song, Red Hot, recorded live on a mobile phone by goatman100.

Double click the picture when it's playing to open the video at www.youtube.com, where you can watch a full screen version.

Sounds LikeHave a listen for yourselves... Here's a video off us doing a radio gig!

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Aug 1 2009 8:00P
Private Function Derby, Midlands
Aug 13 2009 8:00P
The Prom Bristol, Southwest
Sep 5 2009 8:00P
Shakespeare Hotel Sheffield, Midlands
Sep 26 2009 8:00P
The Green Note London, London and South East

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   About Buckshot Soup

Now here's a story...

Me and Duke started messing around with some tunes after splitting with our previous band. Now Duke used to play the drums by trade, but as I couldn't sing, he picked up a guitar and strummed a few chords together (happens them was G, C, & D). As luck would have it, I had just gone out and bought myself a double bass more as a talking point than serious instrument, as I'm a punk kid at heart. Anyway them chords seemed good ones for country, so thats what we started playing.

Now, as all good people know - when you arent playing music, you head to the local drinking place and it was there that we met up with Ray. Now Ray knew his country stuff even the curve balls like Wayne "the Train" Hancock and Stacey Earle (no, not Steve) and Ray said he played the banjo too. Duke and me were a bit dubious at first. We didnt know if it was the drink talking, or us drunk listening, but one things for sure, we haven't ever heard of a banjo player so young, and definitely not a GOOD young banjo player. It seemed like the best idea would be to get together and knock a few tunes (and a few more drinks) down.

So Buckshot Soup was born. A trio to begin with, we played around town at the local open mike and jam nights to try out our new sounds. As I'm sure you're aware, Derby is not exactly a hot-bed of country talent, but we seem to have shone through the acoustic scene and attracted a fair bit of attention.

It was due to one of these here jam nights that Jim happened upon the band. Just back from a tour of Australia, he slid into a venue just as we were hitting the stage. He quickly introduced himself as a dobro player. Now, technically, we were kinda looking for a lap steel player at the time, but beggars can't be choosers right? So Jim joined us on stage for three songs, and within a week was playing his first full gig as part of the band.

Unfortunately we seem to have lost Ray at some gig or other in 2005, very careless, I know! We think it may have been at an Old Crow Medicine Show gig, but its all a little hazy.

We carried on playing as a trio a numerous venues round the Midlands, heading out to bring our sounds to the masses (or those that'll listen). We've been hitting the audience hard with both our original material and some cover tunes that we do in our own Soup style. Each song carefully forced through the Soup grinder to make up what now amounts to over 2 hours of material.

To our surprise Ritchie appeared at a gig around Easter 2006. He'd previously played some guitars with Duke years and years before. Now here he was again, boldly standing in front of us and stating hed bought a banjo and wanted to join the band. We had five gigs in three days coming up, so we told him to get a change of underwear and get in the van. Two onstage rehearsals later, he was plugged in and playing a thirty-four song show.

Making life easy has never been the Buckshot Soup way, so just after recording our five song EP (Pure White Sugar) Jim left the band, and so back to a trio again it was!

Never happy to be trio or keeping life simple by maintaining a line-up that knew all the songs, Duke bumped into a young lady by the name of Bobbi Lee and asked her to come along and add her vocals to some of our tracks. She came along to a rehearsal and it sounded good. Turns out she was free when we were giggin’, so that meant she gets to be in the band!

So the Soup of today is...
Duke "Whiskey" Williams - Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin, and Harmonica.
Bobbi Lee Chalmers – Vocals, Kazoo
Ritchie "On-The-Barrel" Head - Banjo, Guitar, Dobro.
Chuck Walzner - Upright Bass.

So there we have it, in our own humble opinion, Buckshot Soup, the best four-piece country band round these here parts.

Well be seeing y'all real soon,
Chuck Walzner




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May 27 2009 9:32 AM

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May 20 2009 8:41 AM

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