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Dudley Taft

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General Info

  • Genre: Americana / Blues / Rock

    Location Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Un

    Profile Views: 63833

    Last Login: 5/3/2012

    Member Since 9/13/2007

    Website www.dudleytaft.com

    Record Label MIG Music

    Type of Label Major

  • Bio

    Seattle songwriter and guitarist Dudley Taft has been an integral part of the Seattle music scene since 1990. His first band, Sweet Water played sold-out shows and recorded two albums for Atlantic records in the early 1990's. Dudley's next CD was recorded for Capitol records with the band Second Coming in 1997. He has toured extensively with fellow bands Alice in Chains, Candlebox, Monster Magnet and Vast, to name a few. In addition to his own band, Dudley is a member of Spike and The Impalers, the KZOK Bob Rivers Show band that sells approximately 8,000 tickets a year in the greater Seattle area. He grew up in a country called the "Midwest", where he learned the values of friendship, roots blues, rock and roll and a good ear of corn. Dudley trained with local guitar hero Rob Swaynie who taught him music theory interspersed with B.B King and Deep Purple riffs. In high school, he co-founded "Space Antelope" with Trey Anasatasio (of Phish), playing many school events. After four years of studying Johnny Winter and Billy Gibbons riffs at college in California, he emerged with a degree in Sociology. In 2006, he embraced the Blues, recognizing it as the foundation of all the great 1970's rock he has exposed to as a teenager. The more investigating he did, the more he realized that the Blues is his true musical home. Dudley's band can be best described as "a little bit of Texas Blues infused with some Mississippi Delta, sprinkled with a hint of British Invasion and served up with Northwest Rock sensibility. His first blues CD, "Left For Dead", released in 2010 marks the beginning of the rest of his musical career.

  • Members

    Dudley Taft - Guitar & Vocals / John Kessler - Bass / Scott Vogel - Drums

  • Influences

    Freddie King, Albert King, Albert Collins, ZZ Top, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Joe Walsh, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin, Slim Harpo, Little Bill and the Blue Notes, Good Tequila... Oh yeah, and did I mention Freddie King?

  • Sounds Like

    Delta riffs, Texas sagebrush, American Blues.

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