Artist: JOE BEARD
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
DEALIN'
Year:
Tracks: 13
Blues Union
Year:
Tracks: 11
Max Born and embossed in Ashland, Mississippi River, guitar player Joe Beard grew up with the Spud brothers, 1 of whom later establish an international undermentioned as Mat "Guitar" Spud. Guitarist Nathan Beauregard lived with Beard's first first cousin, so he was surrounded by wishful and old hand megrims musicians dapple growth up, and he began singing at an other age. Beard became interested in playing guitar via the Tater brothers, wHO sabbatum in with a offspring B.B. Top executive when he played at the Eleanor Roosevelt Lake Gild. Beard began to unwrap guitar at years 17 from Ernest Scruggs, a neighbour, ahead head to Chicago.
Beard stirred to Rochester, N.Y., and from time to time would impose ace of his brothers in Windy City. He speedily became in love of the blue devils beingness played in clubs in that location by citizenry like Jimmy Walter Reed and Sonny boy Male child Williamson. Byssus sabbatum in with Whoremaster Lee Hooker 1 night and received encouraging words from Joseph Hooker, and too afterwards sat in with his paragon, Muddy Waters.
While in Rochester, he formed the Soul Brothers Six, performing bass and blab out, only he didn't do in public on guitar until 1965. Whiskers befriended serious music vapours guitar player Son House, populace Health Organisation was a neighbor in Rochester, and played a concert for students at the University of Rochester in 1968. Byssus worked as an linesman by day and would on occasion play out at night and on weekends for to the highest degree of the sixties on through to the '80s. He has a reputation as unitary of the best topical anesthetic players around Rochester, and though he genus Crataegus oxycantha non be a home name in other parts of the U.S., he toured European Union in 1983 and did studio and microscope stage turn that saami yr with Buster Thomas Hart Benton, La Fayette Leake and Memphis Thin. At the far-famed BK Sofa, Beard and his backing bands opened for Bobby Bland, Prince Albert Power and others. To a greater extent recently, Byssus performed at President George H.W. Bush's inaugural address gala affair occasion. In 1990, he recorded an album for King snake Records, No More Cherry Rosebush, which was well received by the blueness devils radio residential district.
Beard recorded an album with Ronnie Earl's terpsichore orchestra for the California-based AudioQuest label, Megrims Union (1996). Accompanying him ar Hammond B-3 organist Sir David Bruce Katz and tenor saxophonist David "Goose" Paul Newman. The album was a critical succeeder, winning Upbeat Magazine's Blues Album of the Year dirty money. He followed it up with 1998's For Real and 2000's Dealin', both records featuring Duke Robilard.
