Lucky Wilbury, Woody Guthrie, Spike Wilbury, Folk Uke, Charlie T. Wilbury Jr., Johnny Cash, Pete Townshend and The Who, Nelson Wilbury, Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo`ole, Jake Shimabukuro, Ray High, Lefty Wilbury, Arlo Guthrie, Groucho Marx, Folk Uke, Jimmy Buffett, The UkeLeiMes, Hank William, Tony III, Stig O'Hara, The Traveling Wilburys, The Glass Household, The Ray, Hank Williams, Jr., Craig Roberson, Blind Willie McTell, Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Grunt, Lord Byron, Janis Joplin, Sweet Sourbrette, et al.
Sounds Like
I've been told I sound like Leonard Cohen, Lou Reed and Bob Dylan (though not always at the same time).
One of the latest scions of the legendary Wilbury musical dynasty, Elijah Wilbury is the grand-nephew of patriarch Charles Trescott Wilbury, Sr and cousin to many of the more famous members of the Wilbury clan, including his musical mentors Lucky Wilbury and Spike Wilbury, who first gained international noteriaty when he joined one of the more recent incarnations of Sgt Sir James Winston Pepper's much loved Lonley Hearts Club Band in the early 1960s.
Elijah Keoni Wilbury was born on 21 May 1973 in East Rockaway, Long Island, New York to Dorsey Conway Wilbury and Gayle Susanna Koa. Elijah began traveling early in life when his parents decided to leave thier home in Oceanside and move to the west coast wilderness of Oregon. After a couple minor moves AC Wilbury and family settled in to a relatively sedentary life (for a Wilbury anyway). But Elijah felt the WIlbury wanderlust in his bones. After graduating high school he set his shoes down and did some hard traveling, just like his great-uncle Woodrow Wilbury. Since then Elijah has resided in such varied places as Missouri, Indianapolis, Geissen-German, San Antonio-Texas, Tampa-Florida, and several locations in and around Pennsylvania. Elijah resided for many years on the upper west side of Gotham City, New York, where, in between uke-ing it up, he earned a graduate degree in Underwater Basket Weaving at the Abraham Erkstein Memorial Institute of Applied Irrelevancy and Discount Car Park. Currently he again has no fixed abode.
Elijah's first musical instrument was a harmonica that was given to him as a bar-mitzvah gift by his "Uncle" Lucky. Elijah's first serious foray into music was as an alto saxophonists in his Junior High School marching band. And while he still plays sax on occasion, he is more often seen with a soprano recorder as it is much more portable (traveling being the second thing the Wilburys are known for!) Portability is also one of the advantages of Elijah's current instrument of choice: the 'ukulele. Elijah was introduced to this wonderful little Hawaiian instrument by his British 'ukulele enthusiast cousins Spike and Nelson Wilbury, fell in love and has never looked back.
Elijah's growing ukulele collection includes an Oscar Schmidt OU-2E Concert Ukulele (with a DanElectro Honey-Tone mini-amp) and a vintage BH&S Melody Uke banjulele.
He records using the Wilbury Mobile Studio, though he has been known to put in session time at Gimme Yo Cash Studio in Queens, NY.
Famed American pop-artist, musician and singer/songwriter, Ukulele Ray, performs his original theme song, "Anybody Seen Ukulele Ray?" with the Tempe Tramps to a slideshow of his many exploits and adventures.
Shalom!!! I think we mIssed a great concert at The Ryman Sept 19th I was reading in Rolling Stones Set List: “Leopard-Skin Pill Box Hat” “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” “Watching The River Flow” “You’re A Big Girl Now” “The Levee’s Gonna Break” “Spirit On The Water” “Desolation Row” “Working Man’s Blues #2” “Things Have Changed” “Most Likely You’ll Go Your Way and I’ll Go Mine” “Meet Me In The Morning” (with Jack White) “Highway 61 Revisited” “Nettie More” “Summer Days” “Masters of War” (encore) “Thunder on the Mountain” “Blowin’ in the Wind” (what no All Along The Watchtower..LOL)
Highlights: The aforementioned “Meet Me In The Morning,” in which White mustered the courage to stand next to an icon of popular music, sing with soul and deliver some tremendous lead guitar work; An emotional take on “You’re A Big Girl Now” that will have bootleggers scrambling for copies for years to come; A funky, Motown-like, show-closing version of “Blowin’ in the Wind.” I hear this concert can be downloaded somwhere on the net HAVE A GREAT WEEKEND
Ah, your new song reminds me of my bog this morning, after a serious indian and a whole bottle of Baileys. I have a 'ring of fire' myself - I have a bottom hole like an opium poppy.
