Stan Hedges: Songwriter; Vocalist;
Guitarist- Available for sessions or performances.
Stan Hedges - Lead Vocals, Background Vocals, Lead Guitar, Rhythm Guitar, Slide Guitar, Bass Guitar, Acoustic Guitar, and Resonator Guitar on all selections.
Shannon Wickline – Keyboards and/or Drums on all selections
“Chicago” Charlie Fink- Harmonica on 1, 2, 3, 6, 8,
Miranda Louise – Background Vocals on 1, 2, 4, 5
Summer Boyd - Lead Vocals on 7. Background on 5, 7
Melissa Wickline – Background Vocals on 9
David Dansby – Lead and background Vocals on 7
Jane Hedges – Background Vocals on 7
Toni Wood-Meyer – Background Vocals on 9
1. Angola Cowboy (Words and Music by Stan Hedges)
2. I Can Hear the Delta (Words and Music by Stan Hedges)
3. Won’t Stand the Light of Day (Words and Music by Stan Hedges)
4. Two-Mule Parade (Words and Music by Stan Hedges)
5. Reach the Light - Tribute to Sister Rosetta Tharpe (Words and Music by Stan Hedges)
6. Waiting for the Sky to Fall (Words by Stan Hedges and Will Rhodarmer; Music by Stan Hedges) STANWILLIE MUSIC, BMI
7. Wade in the Water (Traditional)
8. Butter Yo’ Biscuits (Words and Music by Stan Hedges)
9. Garden of Pain - Requiem for Billy Collins, Jr. (Words and Music by Stan Hedges)
10. Snappin’ Turtle Blues (Words and Music by Stan Hedges)
11. Hammer Down (Words and Music by Stan Hedges)
12. Kentucky Skin Tag Salad (Music by Stan Hedges)
Muddy Waters, B. B. King, Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mississippi John Hurt, Howlin' Wolf, Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, and Ronnie Earl
Sounds Like
"NO FUZZ BOXES!!!! STRAIGHT THROUGH THE AMP, BABY! THE ONLY WAY TO GO-----"
- Stan “The Man” Hedges has released his solo project "Two Mule Parade" that is currently placing him in the upper echelon of the Blues Scene.
As of 12-29-07 after only 2 weeks on the charts, "Two Mule Parade" is number 12 on the "Roots Music Report/ Blues Deluxe Roster" and has drawn many accolades from the press, such as: "Startingly good, both for the quality of the music and the breadth of its territory.....ought to win a Grammy (Seriously)!" Brad Martin- Tennessee Press Association Nov, 2007.
- Born in 1957 in the coal mining country of Morganfield (Union County), KY; raised in Uniontown and Paducah, KY; Stan’s grandfather, Luster F. Petty, was a famous riverboat captain who made commercials for Texaco and his father was a riverboat pilot. Stan grew up with a lot of riverboat songs being sung, and a lot of Folk, Country, and Blues being played on the record player. His mother Jane was a music major with a booming voice and still plays guitar and sings folk and gospel songs despite being classically trained. Father Billy Hedges was a trumpet player who sang in the style of Al Jolson and Frank Sinatra as well as a "Golden Glove" Boxing Champ. Hedges relates that his mother was probably his biggest influence, mainly due to her singing everyday and the choice of music she played on the record player. His parents sometimes performed at local nightclubs together.
- Stan started playing guitar at 11 years old, learning Folk, Blues, and Country songs by ear. He never had a formal lesson but learned Blues from an old janitor at school named Jessie. In 1972 he moved to Hendersonville, TN, and began jamming forming bands with stellar guitarists Joel Bise and Steve Roper, playing R&B, Rock, Country, Blues, Top-40. After touring the U.S. and Canada with several popular regional groups including friends Bise, Jeannie Lavalley and Cary Woolery, he decided to concentrate on the music he loved, The Blues.
- While playing on a “Cowboy” Jack Clement produced session for Celinda Pink in the late 80’s, Hedges met harmonica ace “Chicago” Charlie Fink and found a partner in the blues and together immediately started rehearsing Fink’s old band, The Businessmen, and began playing Nashville blues clubs. Charlie married Stan's sister, Nan, making family gatherings a wonderful blues musical event. Stan and Charlie have been best friends and music partners for twenty years!
- During a trip to Chicago in 1988 while sitting in with local Blues-man Jimmy Burns at James Cotton’s Cotton Club, Hedges was heard by Blues legend Buddy Guy who tried to persuade Stan to move to Chicago to “ put him to work”, but Stan didn’t relish the idea of living in such a big city and stayed in Tennessee. Also around this same time Hedges was offered the lead guitar spot in an upcoming band "The Kentucky Headhunters" but Stan wanted to stay true to the blues. However, by the early 90’s Hedges had formed his own band, The Mojo Men with harp player and friend, Will "the Hammer" Rhodarmer, Chucki Burke, Abe White, and Dennis Taylor, but continued to play with Chicago Charlie in The Businessmen. He also played with Celinda Pink, Blues Co-Op, Miranda Louise, Homesick James and his Broomdusters, Bobby Bradford, and the 15 piece New Orleans R& B band Hal Newman and the Mystics of Time.
- In the 90’s Stan played with or opened up for a veritable Blues Who’s Who including B.B. King, Albert King, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Son Seals, Etta James, James Cotton, John Lee Hooker, Pinetop Perkins, Rufus Thomas, The Jelly Roll Kings, Anson Funderburgh and The Rockets with Sam Myers, James Harmon, Billy Branch, Lonnie Mack, Snooky Pryor, Tracy Nelson, Robert Jr. Lockwood, The Thunderbirds, Jackie Pearson and Warren Haynes of The Allman Brothers, Dr. John, Jerry “Boogie” McCain, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, Various members of Lynyrd Skynyrd, Wet Willie, Jimmy Hall, Homesick James, Honeyboy Edwards, Johnny Shines, The Band, The Kinsey Report, C.J. Chenier, Lil’ Ed and the Blues Imperials, George Thorogood, Frank Frost, Gatemouth Brown, Fingers Taylor, and many others.
- In 1995, The Mojo Men recorded their first CD entitled “Meat n’ Three”. It garnered rave reviews from critics, including Nashville’s supreme critic Robert Oermann. The all original CD is still being played by Blues Stations across the country and Europe and is considered by many to be a classic. With many favorites including “Gas Tank for a Love Machine”, “I Don’t Know If It's True But It Happened to Me”, and “TV Dinner Blues”. In 2003 The Mojo Men were nominated for Nashville’s “Best Electric Blues Band” by the Music City Blues Society.
- Along the way Hedges has lent his guitar to many CD’s and projects including “ Heavy Harp” with Sam Myers and Billy Branch, Miranda Louise’s first release, Hal Newman’s “ Riverboat Rhythm and Blues”, released a Country- Blues project with friend Damon Wherry called "The Hedges Wherry Project", lent his talents to gospel recording artists, The Quicks, and has worked with the country’s best producers including Dan Penn, Cowboy Jack Clement, Joe Scafe, Ronald Lynn, and Randy Liago.
- Hedges is a published songwriter, whose songs have appeared on Dan Ackroyd’s weekly Radio National Blues Hour, King Biscuit Time, and other Blues Stations all over the world.
- Stan’s guitar playing has received accolades from various artist’s and organizations:
“Arguably The best blues guitarist in the Southeast” Miranda Louise
“ A great guitar player with a lot of soul” Robert Jr. Lockwood (Famous
blues artist, Chess Records staff guitarist, original performer on King
Biscuit Time, and the step-son of Blues fore-father Robert Johnson)
“Nashville’s most underrated Guitarist”, “ Makes the hair on your back
stand up”, "A local treasure" “ Possibly one of Nashvilee's most underated guitarists” Music City Blues Newsletter
br>
- Hedges has performed at The Chicago Blues Festival, The King Biscuit Blues Festival ( 7 times), B.B. King’s Annual Homecoming Blues Festival, The W.C. Handy Blues Festival, The Crawfish Blues Festival, Florence Blues Festival, Birmingham Blues Festival, The Martin Luther King Blues Festival, Down Home Blues Festival, The Legendary Blues Festival, Selma Blues Festival, Nashville’s Summer Lights, Dancin in the District, B.B. King’s Blues Spectacular, Grinders Switch Bikes and Blues, Sonny Boy Williamson Blues Benefit’s, The Exit Inn, 3’rd & Lindsley, Bluesboro, The Sutler, and other National and Regional Blues Clubs.
- Has also done several Live Radio broadcast’s on “ King Biscuit Time” (the legendary radio show that has been broadcasting throughout the Mississippi Delta for 65 years), has appeared on Nashville’s Lighting 100, Vanderbilt’s WRVU Sunday Night Blues Show, as well as Charlie Garner's live radio show in Centerville (Broadcast on Centerville's FM 96.7 every Saturday morning at 10:00 am).
With Chicago Charlie & The Businessmen, Stan is currently touring the festival circuit and recording a new Businessmen project (as of yet untitled).
-
He has recently lent his guitar talent to several songs by gospel recording artists, The Quicks. Sally Quick is sister to Stan's wife Sandy. You can hear this music at www.thequicksonline.com.
- He surrounds himself with his family; wife of 20 years Sandy, oldest son Dylan 31 and wife April, Jeremy 27 and partner Karen and Jordan 19, along with 19 month old Bernese Mountain Dog "Jaco".
-Many of you know Stan as the owner of Hedges Fine Art, a wholesale supplier of fine oil paintings www.hedgesfineart.com.
Hi, Stan - Thanks so much for asking the Bayou Band and me to play the Grinders Switch Blues Fest! We enjoyed it and it was a treat to swap licks with you on stage - Les
Stan, It was a great show and you and Chicago Charlie deserve credit for your professionalism in putting it all together and carrying it off. Your rehearsals, charts and people skills were evident to all of us involved. As a performer, I really appreciated your impeccable organization and direction. Great work. I hope to work with you again soon. Bluesman
Yo Stan!!! What time are you guys playing??? We're planning to ride out there if the weather holds.. Be cool to meet a myspace friend!!! Mark/guitarzan6000
