File: MP3 @ 320K/sTime: 43:30
Size: 101.7 MB
Released: 2007
Styles: Country blues, Roots
Art: Front
1. Eagle Ridin' Papa (4:02)
2. Terraplane Blues (3:41)
3. Hey Daddy Blues (4:16)
4. Suburban Housewife (3:10)
5. Can't Get The Stuff No More (2:51)
6. Eight More Miles To Louisville (3:32)
7. Not Politically Correct (3:09)
8. Broke Down Engine (3:25)
9. The First Shot Got Him (3:13)
10. Fishin' Blues (3:50)
11. When The Pearly Gates Unfold (5:56)
12. Setrippa (2:20)
When he was nine, Joey and his younger brother Jesse started their first band, "Buddy Hollywood", with Jesse on drums. They would set up on the Pearl Street Mall in Boulder playing Beatles, Bob Marley and all those great old blues songs. The mall patrons were amazed to see these young kids playing songs by Big Bill Broonzy, Skip James and Mississippi John Hurt followed by Ob La Dee Ob La Da or Redemption Song. They could make a couple hundred dollars on a good day. They always filled the hat whenever they made an appearance, much to the dismay of the homeless guys playing Dylan songs.
When Joey turned 15 the McLerran family moved to Tulsa. Living out in the country they could really turn it up. The kids they met at school were into Heavy Metal so Joey and Jesse invited them out to their house to jam. After a few failed attempts starting a Heavy Metal band, Jesse decided to develop a style of percussion on a washboard. Jesse patterned his own washboard after that of an old McLerran family friend, Washboard Chaz Leary, from New Orleans. Chaz was Jesse's godfather and Jesse had been watching Chaz play all his life. Joey changed his name to "Son Piedmont", taken from the term Piedmont Blues, a style popular in the southeast USA in the 20s and 30s, and Jesse became "Washboard Jesse". Without a street mall, gigs were hard to come by and they're tender young ages, 16 and 17, the bars were out of the question. They finally landed a steady Sunday afternoon gig at the Rivers Edge Bistro in Tulsa. They began to catch the attention of many of Tulsa's finest musicians. This led to a few restaurant and private party gigs. Jimmy Markham invited them to play the Oklahoma Blues Festival and gave them a lot of encouragement.
Enlisting the help of their father on bass they began working on a CD project. For several months they worked on the CD inviting their friends, Dexter Payne, a multi-instrumentalist from Boulder, and Big Mike T. Travelletti, a harp player from Sapulpa, to join them. During the final stages of mixing the CD Jesse was killed in an accident. Joey was devastated by Jesse's death and nearly a year passed before Joey could listen to those tracks again. Playing music, other than in the solitude of his home, was the last thing on Joey's mind. In memorial and as a tribute to Jesse, the "Pearly Gates" CD was released in 2004 as Son Piedmont and the Blues Krewe on the Roots Blues Reborn label.
When Joey turned 15 the McLerran family moved to Tulsa. Living out in the country they could really turn it up. The kids they met at school were into Heavy Metal so Joey and Jesse invited them out to their house to jam. After a few failed attempts starting a Heavy Metal band, Jesse decided to develop a style of percussion on a washboard. Jesse patterned his own washboard after that of an old McLerran family friend, Washboard Chaz Leary, from New Orleans. Chaz was Jesse's godfather and Jesse had been watching Chaz play all his life. Joey changed his name to "Son Piedmont", taken from the term Piedmont Blues, a style popular in the southeast USA in the 20s and 30s, and Jesse became "Washboard Jesse". Without a street mall, gigs were hard to come by and they're tender young ages, 16 and 17, the bars were out of the question. They finally landed a steady Sunday afternoon gig at the Rivers Edge Bistro in Tulsa. They began to catch the attention of many of Tulsa's finest musicians. This led to a few restaurant and private party gigs. Jimmy Markham invited them to play the Oklahoma Blues Festival and gave them a lot of encouragement.
Enlisting the help of their father on bass they began working on a CD project. For several months they worked on the CD inviting their friends, Dexter Payne, a multi-instrumentalist from Boulder, and Big Mike T. Travelletti, a harp player from Sapulpa, to join them. During the final stages of mixing the CD Jesse was killed in an accident. Joey was devastated by Jesse's death and nearly a year passed before Joey could listen to those tracks again. Playing music, other than in the solitude of his home, was the last thing on Joey's mind. In memorial and as a tribute to Jesse, the "Pearly Gates" CD was released in 2004 as Son Piedmont and the Blues Krewe on the Roots Blues Reborn label.
Son Piedmont And The Blues Krewe
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