Hat Fitz: Slide, Guitar, vocals
Itchy: Drums, washboard
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Influences
Delta Blues, Charlie Patton, Gus Cannon, Son House, Doc Boggs, Rl Burnside, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Bo Carter, Roscoe Holcomb, Irish jigs and reels, Ragtime, Jug Music, Bluegrass, Old timey.......
Sounds Like
Raw old blues amped up with growling vocals and thundering drums/washboard Check the Vid Below!
Pumping!!!
"Hat Fitz is a musical anachronism,
seemingly possessed by 1920’s bluesmen, so
authentic it’s almost unbelievable.
Imagine : Ned Kelly / Son House on speed !
A flat out boogie rhythm, Itchy beating and
bashing Hat’s monstrous demons.
Fitzy’s eyes wild and wide like a blind man
screaming some primal roar, head twitching with
the emotion of release.
You wonder whether it’s indignity or the shedding
of some painful old identity, but the strum is
ferocious and the beat won’t be denied".
Anyone who has seen Hat Fitz perform at one of his many festival appearances across Australia know how the big man can stir up an audience. With his wild frantic interpretations of early delta blues classics and self penned songs in tandem with drumming side kick Itchy he has built a repretation as a hard edged raw blues man.
On stage Itchy and Fitzy have an amazing telepathic communication that keeps the music tight .
Few performers world wide, have been able to match the wild man approach to the delicate art of finger picking perfected by Hat Fitz. p>
Hat Fitz plays heavily amplified acoustic blues, much of it in the style of blues guitarist from the 20s and 30s. Sometimes in the delicate finger-picking manner of the blues folkies sometimes flat out almost frenzied with growling vocals and driving drums/washboard. If someone gave Charlie Patton an electrified beat up metal body guitar and a jar of slurps this is what it would sound like Hat Fitz is a true home-grown equivalent of someone like RL Burnside or T-Model Ford playing raw and deceptively simple unique music
From America's No 1 Blues publication "Blues Revue" Issue 103, Dec / Jan 2007.
[ with a nod to the hypnotic, one chord Hill Country sound ] on the self-released
HAT MAN'z on hiz way ! Fitz plays resonator guitar with an insistent groove,
growling out the lyrics, while Itchy pounds the skins.
The title track, "Black Nite", and "Hold my hand" lean toward the R.L.Burnside school,
while "Foot Dog Rag" and "Freddy Spaghetti" are more delicate.
Well-known songs receive imaginative treatments: "Motherless Children" is wobbly
and weird, and "Death Letter" races along recklessly.
really enjoyed the gig at rubys been waitin to see you play for ages was unreal! and your lass on drums washboard flute and vocal was wicked you guys sound great together. cheers mate
A big thank you to all who performed at 'The Melting Pot' in the Glenside during this years Fiddlers Green Festival. Wishing you all success in your future projects.
Fitzy!!! Hope ya slapping it up and hard like an over sized Aussie thong on a white untanned Irish Bum :) Hope the gigs are cracking! How long ya staying over there mate??
Really enjoyed the gig in Omagh on Friday night, shame I missed the first half of it though.... was chattin to you outside about CW :) Hope to catch you both again over the summer!
Hello Mr Hat Fitz!! Greetings from Japan! Thanks for your Friendship! I like your sound!! Cool & wild voice!! Like it! If you listen to my music,Please Could you reply your Impression Comment to me? We hope long friendship together!!
hey hat!! these are great songs love what you are doing, do you come to usa much?? if not i understand, would luv to hear what ya think of my tunes, peace 2 u
I'm really excited to have uploaded to myspace my first
video! It's called 'A Day At The Country
Show'. I'd love you to check it out and
let me know what you think.
