| Member Since | 7/11/2007 | | Band Website | www.onestringwillie.com | | Band Members | 1. Replica of Eddie "One String" Jones' paint bucket diddley bow,
2. Replica of Willie Joe Duncan's legendary Unitar,
3. Cigar box diddley bow with broomstick neck,
4. The "Red Alligator" diddley bow made by WillardJ. | | Influences | Musical Influences: Eddie "One String" Jones, Fred McDowell, Son House, Muddy Waters, Blind Willie Johnson, Peter Williams, Shane Speal .................. One String Willie listens to his gal Miz Charlotte, Hound Dog Taylor, Willie Joe Duncan, Bukka White, Howlin' Wolf, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Mance Lipscomb, Charlie Patton, Willie Brown, Gary Davis, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Jesse Fuller, Tommy Johnson, Ishman Bracey, Beale Street Sheiks, Memphis Jug Band, Gus Cannon, Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes, J.B Hutto, Lightnin' Hopkins, Elmore James, Robert Johnson, Jimmy Reed, Gatemouth Brown, Elvin Bishop, Luther Tucker, Lightnin' Slim, Napoleon Strickland, Moses Williams, Hank Williams, Louis Dotson, Lonnie Pitchford, Jessie Mae Hemphill, Glen Faulkner, One String Sam Wilson, James Cotton, Little Walter Jacobs, Big Walter Horton, Sonny Boy Williamson (Rice Miller), Paul Butterfield, Junior Wells, Slim Harpo, Larry Williams, Little Richard Penniman, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley, Carter Family........................................ Willie's other influences include his parents, Chuck Swenson, Julia Child, Marcella Hazan | | Sounds Like | A man on a street corner using a whiskey bottle and a stick to bang on an instrument made of a board and a length of broom-wire stretched between two nails and tensioned by a scrap of wood and a jelly jar with a paint can loudspeaker.
You know--just like that. | | Record Label | Unsigned |
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