Re: Help please ! (Tom House & Joseph Spence)

1999-03-21 Thread Kelly Kessler
When I met Tom House a few years back, it was pre-Bloodshot, and he was a damned interesting poet who preferred digging ditches and writing poems to more respectable occupations. His pal, Kurt Wagner, of Lambchop, is cut from the same cloth- he's busted his butt for years scraping floors so he co

Re: Help please ! (Tom House & Joseph Spence)

1999-03-19 Thread Brad Bechtel
Don't know anything about Tom House. Joseph Spence was a Bahamian guitarist and stonemason who was discovered by blues ethnomusicologist Samuel Charters in 1958. His syncopated fingerpicking style was a big influence on Ry Cooder among others. There are several CDs of his music currently ava

Help please ! (Tom House & Joseph Spence)

1999-03-19 Thread Lazarevic Aleksandar
I'd really like to know more about Tom House. I've been listening his This white man's burden cd for a few days and i can't stop playing it. he reminds me in some way on Michael Hurley which i really like. If anyone knows more about Tom House please mail me privately. I'd like to know if he has m