mike bleck (digger*) accoustic guitar and vocals... and a number of other kind souls who just enjoy jamming and having a good time for a while.
a few of my parners in crime are featured in my top 40.
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Influences
ani difranco, the band, beatles, big wu, the black crowes, blind melon, blues traveler, bob dylan, bob marley, burnt toast and jam, cat stevens, cork and bottle string band, cornmeal, crack daniels, crosby stills nash and young, david grisman, dead horse, dead kennedys, dirty deuce, doc watson, donna the buffalo, doors, dorothy scott, drive by truckers, dr. john, elton john, emmy lou harris, eric mcfadden, faith no more, g love and special sauce, grace potter and the nocturnals, gram parsons, grateful dead, greg brown, hackensaw boys, home town sweethearts, huey lewis and the news, jackson brown, james brown, janis joplin, jerry joseph, jethro tull, jimi hendrix, john hartford, jonny cash, keller williams, led zeppelin, leon redbone, leonard cohen, lil rev, little blue crunchy things, little marsh overflow, lou reed and the velvet underground, merle haggard, merle saunders, michael franti and spearhead, natty nation, neil young and crazy horse, new grass revival, ozzy osbourne, pat macdonald, paul simon, pearl jam, phish, pink floyd, presidents of the united states, probers, purgatory hill, radiators, rat dog, red hot chili peppers, rolling stones, run side down, sam bush, sly and the family stone, soup, space rangers, steve kimock, steve miller band, stevie wonder, sting, string cheese incident, timbuk 3, todd snider, tom waits, tony brown and the landing crew, traffic, umphrey's mc gee, van halen, van morrison, x, weavils, widespread panic, willie nelson, wookiefoot, yonder mountain string band...
Sounds Like
that guy around the campfire at that festival, or in the hotel after the show, or out on the street playing for change, or playing before the band that you actually came to see, or one of your old buddies, or...
if it ain't fun, why do it? i started calling my act dead horse as a kind of cynical joke due to my lack of success at keeping a band together long enough to reap the benefits of all the practice and accumulation of gear. so, in the spirit of improvisation, dead horse is a band du jour. yet, i use only the most kind and competent ingredience available. the songs are my original works, collaborations, and covers that called me to them for one reason or another. the band name may already be copywritten and i may get sued if i ever made any money off it, but as of right now that endeavor would just be an ironic cliche... even more so, from this musical mud puddle will emerge thoroughbred music which is very much alive.
