Grama Grace, Mom, Jack La Lane, Ennio Morricone, Louie Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, Judy Garland, Doris Day, Helen Reddy, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Jim Croce, Scott Joplin, Beethoven, Elton John, Willie Nelson, Loretta Lynn, Dolly Parton, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder, Billy Preston, John~Paul~George~Ringo, Minnie Ripperton, Pink Floyd, Rickie Lee Jones, Ray Manzarek(The Doors), Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughn, The Who, Jonie Mitchell, The Rolling Stones, Joe Bass Skyward (Sky Cries Mary, The Posies, Sunnyday Realestate), Jaco Pastorius, Chrissie Hynde (The Pretenders) Betty Carter, Kate Bush, Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve, XTC, Violent Femmes, David Bowie, Thelonious Monk, Marvin Gaye, Beck, Edith Piaf, Gang of Four, Lhasa, Louie Bellson, and from the Seattle scene -- j.r., Leif Totusek and Ron Weinstein of course!!!
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"You're music is pretty bad-ass. I'm listening to Tattoo Detective. Nice work. You sound like mixture of Madonna and Patty Smith to me."
--quote from Nick Fuller 2008
"Kate Bush meets Fleetwood Mac" --quote from Dave Winfrey 1992
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Anyway, your MySpace site is very cool and your music, with your jazzy lilting voice, has an edgy quality . . . . I wish I was better at music theory jargon because there's something tangential about the musical journey you take me on, familiar in some ways and yet it drifts off on its own esoteric path; sometimes sweet, sometimes bordering on a dark precipise (I'm listening to Blackberry Love at the moment). Very nice!
--quote from Tom Mellado 2008
"There are times when Sheryl's voice brings Kate Bush to mind, maybe a hint of Tori Amos too. But the songs and vocal style, especially in phrasing, are distinctive - and she sings with power and verve and a sense of freedom."
--quote from Jamie Field 2004
". . . . while singing in a voice that evokes the bluesy croon of Rickie Lee Jones. The result is often eerie, usually atmospheric, and pretty much never anything like the music that we've grown accustomed to associating with contemporary singer-songwriters . . . "
--quote from Joe Nickell, Missoulian 2006
Bowling With Shumpy! that's the band. Who is Shumpy? Wouldn't you like to know. Guerilla Disc? That's the artist label/production company based in Seattle, Washington.
Biography
Sheryl Diane Shumsky: Resides in Seattle. She was born in Montana, moved west in '89 after some formative years in Bozeman, DJ-ing at college radio station, KGLT and thereby baptizing herself in all manner of music (see INFLUENCES for more info).
Sheryl Diane, started playing piano in second grade and as a descendant of 4 generations of maternal piano players, was destined to wield the light-weight hammers and divide her time between musicianship and mothering. She graduated from Fairhaven College with a self-designed degree, Aural Media, ('91); relocated to Seattle ('92); performed solo, started a band (The Figs '98), produced a long running women’s songwriter series, (Wine, Women & Chocolate '00-'05), finally left the day-job to become a sought-after piano teacher, and developed a first recording, (Blackberry Love EP '04); all while raising offspring with Joe "Bass" Skyward (known currently for work with Jeremy Enigk and previously: Sunny Day Real Estate, The Walkabouts, The Posies, Pretty Mary Sunshine and Sky Cries Mary).
Bowling with Shumpy! is the latest incarnation of a deluxe sideshow of musical talent organized for a concept rock album entitled Dream Carnival. The band is Sheryl Diane, keyboard; Woogie D, drums; & Tige DeCoster, bass; with various others. As the recording progresses the newly finished tracks will be posted here for your amusement. -- 01/19/2009
BIG HIGH performs live @ the High Dive in fremont this Friday! Check it out!
Here's a review of the band from the infamous Dennis Cook of Jambase.com: A touch too punchy to make the morning offerings, I stumbled in and got WOKE THE FUCK UP by Big High, a local hard rock ensemble and friends to Flowmotion that struck a first impression akin to my first mind-blowing Drunk Horse gig. Like Oakland's steel-plated punk-boogie juggernaut, Big High aren't screwing around and it wasn't a whole tune before I was shaking like a madman close to the stage. Killer tunes, a crazy tight band and a lead singer (Mesa on "vocal flyfishing") possessed of a fathomless bottom and high reachin' top end plus a leaping, fiercely engaging stage presence, and well Big High sorta rocked my widdle world. It's serious heavy muscle that puts a lil' anger and sex in your bloodstream, culminating in a frighteningly good cover of The Who's "Baba O'Riley" delivered in Dr. John style feather masks for no good reason except to be delightfully weird. If you're feeling Clutch, Parlor Mob or just dig quality hard rock you're missing out if you don't get to know Big High. At the end of their set I bellowed, quite uncontrollably, "We're awake now, motherfuckers!" Meant it, too. -- Dennis Cook--www.jambase.com www.myspace.com/bighighmusic BIG HIGH is also on facebook here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/BIG-HIGH/134022157365?ref=nf High Dive www.highdiveseattle.com 513 N 36th St # G Seattle, WA 98103-8693 (206) 632-0212 &
Thanks for the add! I'll give you a call next week - Lindsey asked if I'd like to perform at one of the parties - maybe we could work on something together! :)
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