Howard Eliott Payne.
Geetar, Singin, Harp and Rack.
Influences
Harry Smiths Anthology Of Folk. Hank Williams. John Jacob Niles. Jack Kerouac. The Carter Family. Son House. Miles Davis. The Pixies. Woody Guthrie. Chuck Berry. Sleepy John Estes. Neil Young. Howlin Wolf. New York City. The Memphis Jug Band. Red Wine. John Keats. Skip James. Curtis Mayfield. Leonard Cohen. Traffic. The Band. Anne Briggs. The Grateful Dead. Brittle Like Lightning. Dylan Thomas. Chekov. Johnny Cash. Pete Seeger. Balzac. Midnight to 5am. Earnest Hemingway. The Road an all it's many turnings. Blind Willie Johnson. Smokey Robinson. Bertold Brecht. Mississipi John Hurt. William Blake. John Coltrane. Rev Gary Davis. Kelly's Heros. James Dean. The Clancy Brothers. Buddy Holly. John Steinbeck. Arthur Rimbaud. Low Light Easy, On The Eye. The Louvin Brothers. Allen Ginsberg. Baudelaire. Bob Wills. F Scott Fizgerald. Furry Lewis. Dave Van Ronk. Lightnin Hopkins. Elvis. Dr Winston O Boogie and a whole other many million..
I Need You has always been one of my favourite songs but I admit I have nerver felt so close to this song like I do to the Luminaire version. Thrilling! Come the 21st!!
always loved your music from the Stands playing at the bandwagon,bought bright light ballads the day it came out and it hasnt left my stereo yet! cant wait to get my hands on the new live album now after hearing i need you.what an amazin version. cheers mate!
hello just wanted to show off my picture from when i saw howie live, he was amazing live and stuck around to sign my cd and even spoke to us for a few mins, was a pleasure apart from i dropped my beer half way through his song and everyone heard it even howie whoops.
Thanks for adding me, Darlin'! Tell your peeps I said hi, and I miss ya'll like hell. Next year it's on. (or we can just rock out with our rockin' friends during SXSW. ;-) Rock and Rule- Emily Grace
You got some wicked tunes my man really enjoyed listening to them and will again. If you have time please watch brian gerrish state of the nation on youtube parts1-6, check out the vids on myprofile and goto infowars.com need more people like your good self on board. peace and love amigo
