Co creatives at times.. Frank English singin, writ and strummin, harmonica and percussion with some help from my friends at times..
Influences
Nature, Spirit and a Ticking Clock..
Ted Hawkins, Woody Guthrie, Precious Bryant, Rodriguez..
1984 Detroit Tigers, John Lennon, John Sinclair, Eric and Polly Rapp, Sara M, Sade, Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez, Tommy James and the Shondels, RL Burnside, Mississippi Fred Mcdowell, Townes, Bruce, The Last Unicorn, The Secret of Nimh, Emmett Otter's Jug Band, Star Wars, the beginning of MTV,.. !.. alleys, the Attic Bar, the Butler Twins, Bob Seger and the Seger System, Charles Burchfield, Jack Beal, Sondra Freckleton, Anslem Keifer, Albert Pinkham Ryder, William Blake, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, my FAMILY!, dirt roads, Mazzy Star, MC5, Hank, Detroit Music, Neil Young and every street anywhere player i have ever found...
Sounds Like
Someone whom likes to play in tunnels and in fields..
Conceived in 1992 and slowly percolating up to this point is the band Tributary. Originating from the south of Detroit and revolving around singer songwriter artist Frank James English, Tributary at its heart embraces the direct simplicity of the solo acoustic minstrel tradition. Yet Tributary is an open collaborative effort as well and involves various artists while creating a wide variety of size, color and texture. Balancing the audible and visual, Frank has had a full career in the Fine Arts as well. It was in 1990 that his poetry began to find form as song. Armed with a Gibraltar Trade Center classical acoustic and 1965 Electra Electric he began crafting and covering. Gradually picked up doumbek and djembe drums and joined the great drum circle culture surge of the late 90’s and after, truly living the life of a creative spirit rambler. Was able to learn and play with some of the great local Detroit area folk artists in the tradition and beyond such as Raymo James, Rodriguez, Xavier Moore and Buford Jones... In 2001 the Tribal Fusion band Spirit Rising was created as a collaborative effort and often accompanied the rich incensed magic of Night Fire performances. Night Fire is an Ann Arbor based contemporary dance group. Brooklyn based artist Satchel Jones has contributed lead guitar on tracks Arkansas, Take My 45 and Fulsom Prison Shoes. Clay St. James travels along in the pocket and then we have wings as the man in black blows harmonica and verse. Recently two compilations CHILL OUT and GOIN BACK HOME have brought together this music with others across the country and Canada. Tributary is continuously flowing into new lands of artistic journey.
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Hi Ya'll, Hope your doing well! Updates; planning on being recording the new C&W album in the fall. Willie is doing great after her 5 Bipass surgry last Monday! My wife Rhapsody could use some prayers for her RA its been very painful! All Peace & Love Lee
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