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Baby Gramps
12+ albums
folkbluesPirate songsamericanballade
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Baby Gramps plays a mixture of styles and eras including traditional blues, children's and labor songs, and his own compositions. His busy and unusual guitar style includes flat and finger picking, and "chording" with the back of his hand and his elbow. His singing styles include throat singing. His voice is a cross between Popeye the Sailor and a Didgeridoo and the plinkity plink of his VERY worn National steel guitar, sounds like a wind up jack in the box. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_Gramps “Baby Gramps’s performances on “Rogue’s Gallery” (Anti), a two-disc set of sea chanteys produced by Hal Willner, are among the album’s best, and that’s saying a lot: among the other contributors are Sting, Lou Reed, Lucinda Williams, Bono, Bryan Ferry, Nick Cave, Van Dyke Parks and Bill Frisell.” - Ben Ratlif, The New York Times According to an article in Seattle Metropolitan Magazine, Baby Gramps is acknowledged as one of the top 50 most influential musicians in the last 100 years along with Ray Charles, Jelly Roll Morton, Ernestine Anderson, John Cage, Bill Frisell, Jimi Hendrix, Quincy Jones, The Wailers, The Ventures, Sound Garden, and Pearl Jam. He is credited with making Seattle audiences aware of old blues and novelty songs that the rest of the world has mostly forgotten. Baby Gramps toured England and Ireland this past summer (2008) as part of the Rogues Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys CD Concert Tour with Tim Robbins (actor), Martha and Rufus Wainri
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Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Song And Chanteys
Rogue's Gallery
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys
Same Ol' Timeously
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Outertainment
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys (Disc 1)
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Many Hands: Family Music for Haiti
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Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys Disc 1
Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys (Disc 2)
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Fast Folk Musical Magazine (Vol. 1, No. 1)
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Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, & Chanteys Disc 2