MARS "SLOW FOOT" FARISS is from Georgia and has been playing and recording out of Asheville for years with Acoustic Syndicate, Big Blue, The Laura Blackley Band and others since riding into town in the early aughts.
CHRIS "BAD-HAND" KEW is from Newfoundland by way of Boston and toured his way around North America countless times with Jiggle the Handle, Hypnotic Clambake, Steel String Theory and Big Blue before getting off the bus here.
"LITTLE GEORGE" WATERMAN is from New Hampshire by way of California and Colorado. Starting in the studio at an early age, G has traveled these United States in search of true music. After 32 years and hundreds of musicians, Little George landed in A'Ville were he found his calling... The Delta Blues and Junco Partner.
Influences
Robert Johnson, Muddy, The Wolf, Bukka White, Charlie Patton, Ray Charles, Sonny and Brownie, Freddie King, B.B., Professor Longhair, Ron Carter and on and on...
Sounds Like
A bit like the Wood Brothers at times. A bit like Rye Cooder at others.
Junco Partner is a Rhythm and Blues band from Asheville, NC comprised of Marsellus (Slow Foot) Fariss on Bottleneck Dobro, Chris (Bad Fingers) Kew on the upright bass and (Little) George Waterman on drums when appropriate for the venue. We play New Orleans, Chicago, and Delta Blues peppered with old school R&B.
We started the group on a lark one spring as a way to work in small, intimate venues in such a way that would keep ourselves and our audience entertained. Working musicians often play low key acoustic guy-in-the-corner kind of gigs but the idea of humming and strumming Jimmy Buffet songs in the corner of a tourist bar all night makes us wanna break things. Playing old R&B and Blues songs on Dobro and upright bass sounded like a helluva lot more fun. Unsure of the market for a Blues band in Appalachia, but encouraged by the success of our friends the Wood Brothers, we turned it loose on the unsuspecting city of Asheville to rave reviews. Recently we've started incorporating George Waterman into the fold on Drums for some of our shows so we can make a Rock n' Roll noise!
Our material is our own as well as hand picked dusty old scratchy tunes dug up from the bottom of LP collections. Robert Johnson, Ray Charles, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Professor Longhair to drop a few names.
The duo show is simple and musical, low-key and funky. It's fits comfortably in any small venue. The trio shows start the same way and progress toward an rockin' electric Blues revival 'round midnight.
We've got some duo stuff up in the player, and we'll have some of the trio stuff with George on drums up in a while. We'll be starting work on a record soon as well.
You can contact us at juncopartners @ gmail dot com for booking.
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