Chicken Strut

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Pickin' Peckin'

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Released: Feb 27, 2007

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Pickin' Peckin'
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Neily
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Py 1
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General Info

Genre: Funk / Jazz / Soul
Location AUSTIN, Texas, US
Profile Views: 38323
Last Login: 11/24/2009
Member Since 1/8/2007
Type of Label Indie
Bio
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!
Members
Neil Pederson - keys (Extreme Heat, Papa Mali, Topaz) ........................................................................................................................ Michael Hale - drums, M.C. (Afrofreque, Dan Dyer) ........................................................................................................................ Bobby Perkins - bass (Carolyn Wonderland, Topaz) ........................................................................................................................ Ron Sio - guitar (MeterMen, Topaz) ....................................................................................................................... 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