Rudy Vallee, Al Jolson, Bing Crosby, Dick Haymes, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Tony Bennett, Steve Martin, George Carlin, Black Sabbath, James Hetfield, Mel Blanc, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Tom Waits, David Lee Roth, and Jack Nicholson
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"He has the voice of an intinerant minstrel: solid, strong, down-home yet with a range and timbre applicable to a stunning variety of occasions. He sounds like a crooner fronting a ragtime band on "When it's Darkness on the Delta" and conjures the ghost of the legendary Phil Ochs on "Brown Recluse Girl"... this isn't a compliment I throw around lightly. Rial exhibits his deftness with whatever blues, jazz, country or folk is thrown at him."--Sepiachord, Feb. 25th, 2009
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Robert Joseph Rial is an actor, singer-songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist who graduated with a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from Ohio University in 1999. In addition to working on his first musical score, he is performing regularly with his band Bakelite 78, as well as frequently sketching out new material.
Arriving in Seattle in 2009, singer-songwriter and guitarist Robert Rial continues a musical direction he perfected in Chicago and began while in college in southeastern Ohio. Robert plays the styles he loved most: country-blues, Tin Pan Alley, American folk songs, jazz, and mountain music. Many of these styles of music were originally released on 78 r.p.m. records. Some 78's were made from a 'new' material, an early form of plastic called Bakelite. Bakelite 78 records preserved the songs of this era. Bakelite 78 the band was born to bring them back to life.
Robert Rial's choice of instruments in his new group reflected the era of Bakelite 78's repertoire- tenor guitar and tenor banjo, common 1920's dance orchestra rhythm instruments, and stand up megaphone, used to better emulate the singing style of classic 'pre-microphone era' singers. His voice is not so much heard as it is experienced.
Robert Rial's Bakelite 78 will perform on Friday, January 15th at 9 P.M. at The Pink Door at 1919 Post Alley in Seattle. PLEASE SEE www.myspace.com/bakelite78
Robert also plays six-string guitar, and church organ, and writes a variety of rock and blues infused music, often about monsters or sci-fi themes.
Fermata: Cliffs Ruby Throat: Dear Daniel Mark Sinnis: Mind Melt Oval Portraits: Crying Windows Unextraordinary Gentlemen: Chaser Sxip Shirey: Istanbul The Dad Horse Experience: Away Walter Sickert & THe ARmy of BRoken TOys: Viktagraph Against Me!: How Low Vermillion Lies: Bonnie & Clyde Foetus Symphony Orchestra featuring Lydia Lunch: Black Adonis Adrian H & the Wounds: Smoke Supersuckers: Hangliders Christian Williams: KK Bridge Neko Case: Vengeance is Sleeping James Blackshaw: Bled Bakelite 78: St James Infirmary Blues Serendipity Musik: Off to War Abney Park: The Secret Life of Dr Calgori Black Heart Procession: A Sign on the Road Amber Lee and the Anomalies: It's Me Jason Webley & Sxip Shirey: Elephant Piano Thomas Nola et son Orchestre: Gloomy Sunday Miss Moonshine: It's Only a Paper Moon
