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Joshua "J. D." Wilkes (born April 18, 1972) is an American visual artist, musician, amateur filmmaker and author. [1] [2] He is best known as the singer for the rock band Legendary Shack Shakers, and is also an accomplished harmonica player, having recorded for such artists as Merle Haggard, Sturgill Simpson, John Carter Cash, Mike Patton, and Hank Williams III in the American Masters film ...
Singer and harmonica player J.D. Wilkes developed an interest in Delta blues music as a teenager living in Paducah, Kentucky as a result of disinterest in the decade's popular music styles, familiarizing himself with the music of Muddy Waters, Lightning Hopkins, Brownie McGhee and Charlie Patton before moving backward into older styles of music "to see the roots of the roots". [1]
The Dirt Daubers initially performed acoustic hot jazz, folk, [4] old-time and hillbilly music. [5] With the recording of Wild Moon, the band adopted electric instrumentation, shifting to a mix of styles which included jump blues, rhythm and blues, [6] electric blues, rock and roll, [5] rockabilly [4] [6] and country music. [6]
According to AllMusic, the Legendary Shack Shakers "continue to expand their musical palette" with Swampblood, writing that "the Tennessee hell-raisers have added a healthy portion of classic swamp rock to the menu", comparing the title track's style to the music of Tony Joe White, "Old Spur Line" to Slim Harpo, and "Hellwater" to Creedence Clearwater Revival. [2]
Nov. 16—If you've been to the River Street Jazz Cafe recently, you know it hosts much more than jazz. "Now it's any genre of music," said owner Rob Friedman, whose love for jazz and blues led ...
J.D. Wilkes described Pandelirium as "carnival music played by a stripped-down blues band." [2] The album was described by AllMusic as a further departure from the band's established style than their previous album, displaying a "more European, even Gypsy approach" that mixes "American and European goth sensibilities with the musty roots of country and blues along with the live-fast, die-young ...
It’s 9 September 2001. A young history buff called Tom is sitting down to watch the big new HBO series, Band of Brothers.Like many Americans, Tom’s family don’t have an HBO subscription, and ...
The book lists 20 main contributors all of whom were members of Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne, the company of soldiers that has come to be known as the original Band of Brothers. The company's nickname, Band of Brothers, was taken from the 1992 book of the same name authored by historian Stephen Ambrose that was later turned into an ...