country blues

Andy Sharrocks was born in Manchester and started playing serious music in punk band Accident On The East Lancs. They released 2 singles We Want It Legalised/Tell Me What Ya Mean and Back End Of Nowhere/Rat Race, and an album Shotguns And Hotshots. One journalist recently suggested The Strokes should record Tell Me What Ya Mean.
On his first solo album Walking In Familiar Footsteps, Andy had no other than ex Rolling Stone Mick Taylor guesting on guitar and Paul Jones from The Blues Band and radio 2 fame guesting on blues harp, with Jeff and Tommy Vee, Bobby Vee's sons on bass and drums.

Huddie Ledbetter (23 January 1888-6 December 1949) was a leading American blues singer and guitarist. His songbook contained a large number of standard folk tunes, most adapted from previous sources. Though many of his posthumous releases list him as "Leadbelly," he himself spelled it "Lead Belly." This is also the usage on most of his original records, tombstone, as well as of the Lead Belly Foundation.

There aren’t a lot of Warped Tour vets who can claim proficiency in the use of washboards, bottleneck slides and five-gallon buckets. Most didn’t spend their teens playing along to Charlie Patton and Bukka White albums. And just about none are fronted by a commissioned member of the Honorary Order of Kentucky Colonels. But the Reverend Peyton’s Big Damn Band, whose "Mama's Fried Potatoes" was featured on Warped’s 2009 tour compilation CD, are all that and more. With wild sing-a-longs and flaming washboards, their live shows have been converting skeptics left and right.

Read more about Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band on Last.fm.