Stephen Monroe and all the angels that surround me
Influences
Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Lynyrd Skynryd, ZZ Topp, Johnny Winters, Bob Dylan, John Prinie, Hank Williams, Allman Bros, Muddy Waters, all the old blues players....BB King, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, Willie Dixon, Cream, Eric Clapton, John Forgerty, Jerry Jeff Walker, Jimmy Buffet, Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, DEan Martin, The Smothers Brothers, The Shades, TR III and Deek Johnson..Broz 1 & 2
Sounds Like
Stephen Monroe - Heaven with a guitar.....I do what I can :)
A Rockin Solo Performer -
Stephen Monroe is a native bread basket singer, writer and guitar player. A self-taught musician proficient on acoustic, electric, bass, lead and slide guitars, his music is a melting pot of all the great music that has graced his life: the drive of electrified blues, the passion of a heart-wrenching ballad, rock-n-roll in all its splendor, stories in a song. All these make music exciting everyday.
In the age of karoke sincerity, Stephen Monroe emerges with a passion born from the power of music's past and full of the future. He plays and sings with an intensity few can maintain, and has more fun than is allowable by law in several of the United States. Stephen Monroe--a solo artist, a guitar player, a singer and writer of songs--plays for you and wants you to feel good about spending your time with him. You can trust him to give you all hes got to entertain you and wants you to leave with one thought: when can we do it again?!
Have Guitar Will Travel Traveling At The Speed Of Sound by Stephen Monroe
What would you get if you took some good, old-timin' delta blues and spiced it up with just a hint of jazz and uptempo blues, (and hell, I believe I even heard a little scat) and threw in a dash of nostalgia with a whole lot of modern production? That my friends, is the recipe for Stephen Monroe's CD release Traveling At The Speed Of Steve.
Stephen is old school blues - the guy who loads up the trunk with just his guitar and hundreds of copies of his CD and then hits the circuit, barnstorming watering spots and juke joints, sharing his life in song and drink, a buddy with which to drown your sorrows with or just hang. The music here is a wonderfully charming bit of mostly acoustic roots music with a groove somewhere between Delta Blues and Chicago Blues, though Stephen hails from neither Mississippi nor Chicago. With a minimalist approach to instrumentation (acoustic guitar, some hand claps, limited percussion ), the focus on each song is mostly on Monroe's lyrics and singing. It's mostly old-school to be sure ---- but there is a certain '60s sensibility at work here. A looseness of feel, perhaps, or a kind of a hippie vibe. Maybe it's just the sense of possibility arising from the loosening of any real stylistic restrictions: that the music can be whatever the listener wants it to be.
Standout tracks are Bluz Get Away, Waitin' For My Train, Sorry I Lost Control and Lovin' Man which has a edgy, rockabilly bite to it. The CD is bargain at CD Baby, selling for a measly FIVE BUCKS. And, given this effort's wonderful sense of m
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thanks for being a friend on our myspace for this long. We just got a new guitarist so now we are three instead of just two. We will get a bassist soon and start playing some shows. Keep checking our site for more updates. Thanks
