Neil Pederson - keys (Extreme Heat, Papa Mali, Topaz)
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Michael Hale - drums, M.C. (Afrofreque, Dan Dyer)
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Bobby Perkins - bass (Carolyn Wonderland, Topaz)
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Ron Sio - guitar (MeterMen, Topaz)
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Honorary Strutters (without whom we would not be able to make it): Mike Rhoder, Billy Maddox, Josh Perdue, Barry "Frosty" Smith, Johnny Radalat, Eldridge Goins, Ed Miles, Alan Haynes, Anthony Farrell, Phil Bass, Tom Robinson, Mista Swift, Mike Barnes, Topaz, Buddha Mills, Scott French, Ephraim Owens and many more!
Influences
The Meters, Grant Green, Jimmy Smith, early Johnny Guitar Watson
Sounds Like
"...Chicken Strut scratches out a sparer sound, one rooted in the Southern instrumental soul of Booker T. & the MGs and the Meters." - The Austin Chronicle
Take four journeymen Austin musicians, add a pound of soul-jazz, two cups of New Orleans funk, a heaping helping of blues and a pinch of barnyard country pickin', simmer over a low flame and you get Chicken Strut, the funkiest small combo around!
The introduction day of the second solo album "Balboo" by Piotr
Zaczek is approaching. On October the 10th the disc will appear on
sale, but one may listen to a few fragments on
www.myspace.com/piotrzaczek
Hello! Was stopping by to check your schedule for tomorrow night..... I'll be in the warehouse district and hoped to catch you guys, too. Maybe next time.....
hey thanks for the add. i seen you guys perform at the triangle i thought yall were awesome plus the fact that you threw in a freestyle and i was apart of it. keep it live and funky!!
