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     e-mail: dandrums@nc.rr.com 
                       
     Welcome To My Musical Endeavors!
 
   I hope you enjoy the downloads of some of my favorite people to make music with!
 
                                                              Songs...
    Big Mama E and the Cool is a 5 piece original music rock & roll band from the Raleigh/Durham, N.C. area. The group has released 2 c.d.'s: 1998's Big Mama E and the Cool and 2002's "High Maintenance"...both recorded/produced at Overdub Lane by Wes Lachot and mastered by Brent Lambert at The Kitchen mastering. The group is made up of Emma Davis on vocals, Olly Roberts on bass and vocals, Ken Weigand on guitar and vocals, Mike Edwards on guitar and Dan Davis on drums. BME writes and arranges their own material. The band is currently working on their third c.d. project produced by BME along w/ Paul Cooper .
     
      To order a copy of BME's "High Maintenence" go to CD Baby!
    
                

"Do What You Do" - BME Debut C.D.

"Payback" - from High Maintenance

"Nothing's Sacred"-High Maintenance

 
 
Lay, Lady Lay...a Bob Dylan composition performed here by Cyril Lance and the Outskirts of Infinity Collective Experience Arkestra. The song was performed and recorded at the Carrboro Artscenter on April 6th, 2007 as part of a special evening featuring Dylan's music. The wonderful Emma Davis is featured on vocals.

"Lay, Lady Lay"

  
  
    The Orgaphonics - def. - a triangle based jazz organ trio featuring Mark Wells on B3 and Kevin Van Sant on guitar. The group has one c.d. to its credit and continues to perform all over the state. "Gingerbread Boy" is a Jimmy Heath classic with a more modern treatment. 

"Gingerbread Boy "- Orgaphonics

   The great Frank Corbi performs "Goodbye" with the Orgaphonics...A LIVE performance from the old Capper's restaurant hang in 2003.

"Goodbye"

 
 
   The one and only Adrian Duke LIVE at the Blue Bayou (Hillsborough, N.C.) on August 18th, 2006. The band features Will McFarlane on guitar, (Bonnie Rait, Muscle Shoals session great!) Kent Dobson on bass and Roger Carrol on Saxophone... Adrian does everything else! The tune is a Meters jam called "Cabbage Alley." ...hope you like it.

"Cabbage Alley"

                                                                                                                                                             The Sonny Rollins composition "St. Thomas" is performed LIVE at Bogart's in downtown Raleigh (April, 2006)... A piano trio setting featuring the great Steve Anderson at the piano and Rick Jones on bass.

"St. Thomas"

  
 
    Gershwin's "In A Sentimental Mood" comes from a LIVE recording of the Paul Tardif Quartet featuring Dr. Paul Tardif of the E.C.U. faculty on piano, Ray Codrington on trumpet and Paul Ingbretsen on bass. The song is taken from a concert recorded in Greenville, N.C. on October 12th, 2000.

"Sentimental Mood" - Paul Tardif QT
















 
 
    The following session at Rick Lassiter's home studio produced exciting moments on "Invitation" w/ the great Glenn Morrissette on tenor sax, Cyril Lance guitar and Rick Lassiter bass.

"INVITATION" - GCRD QUARTET

   Yet another recording from Rick's home studio this time with Malon Horde on Saxophone along with Rick and Cyril. The tune is Wayne Shorter's "Footprints."

"FOOTPRINTS"

 
 
   "End Of The Line" is from the Steve March disc Blue Moon Diner. Recorded and produced by Wes Lachot at Overdub Lane the c.d. features Steve March on Vox, Clyde Mattox on pedal steel, Tommy Hartley and Jason Barker on guitars, Jack Campbell on bass and Emma Davis on background vocals.

"END OF THE LINE" - S. MARCH

 
 
   Debbie Liske and the Done Deal...recorded with John Plymale at Overdub Lane in Durham, N.C. "Precious Present" was written and performed throughout the summer of 1995. 

"PRECIOUS PRESENT"

 
 
    A great song performed by Bruce Frye and the Lonely Rider Band featuring Bruce Frye vocals and guitar, Tommy "Too Tall" Evans on guitar and John Wade on bass. 1995's "Hank's House" was produced and recorded by Mike Gardner (PKM, Nantucket) A North Carolina treatment of Texas swing!

"THE ONLY THING I LEFT IN TEXAS...

 
 
                  I am fortunate to perform with some of the
                       finest musicians in the southeast!
 
                                           My friends in music....... Emma Davis   Paul Ingbretsen   Ken Weigand   Paul Tardif  John V. Brown   Mike Edwards   Wes Lachot   Rick Lassiter    Ed Palaontonio   Drew Lile  Glenn Morrissette   Kevin Van Sant   Damon Brown   Olly Roberts   Frank Corbi   Tim Smith   Steve Anderson   Chris Rhodes   Will McFarlane   Steve Clarke   Brian Miller   Don Gladstone   Bruce Frye   Mitch Butler   Paul Cooper   David Via  Dave Finucane  Chip Crawford   Carol Ingbretsen   Rick Jones    Ray Codrington   Dave Finucane   Kenny Soule   Todd Jones   Peter Innocenti   Mel Melton   Ben Palmer    Ken Rhodes   Grant Osbourn   Gregg Gelb   Jim "Doc" Crawford   Darrel Monteith  Mark Wells   Lois Deloatch   Russell Lacy   Eddie Thigpen   Greg Hyslop  Gabe Evans  Malon Horde   Scott Sawyer   Ira Wiggins  Thomas Taylor   John Simoneti   Jon Wacker   Steve Haines   Allyn Love   Scott Warner  Ameen Salim   Gary Brunotte   Steve Hobbs    Cyril Lance   Bill Newton   Ed Butler   Baron Tymas   John Plymale  Bill Baucom   Robert Griffin   Dave McCracken   John Wade   Wayne Viar    Steve Boletchek   John Bass  Doug Largent  Carter Minor   Mike Waddell   Joe Izzo   Rodney Marsh    Jim Baird   Carroll Dasheill   Harold Greene   Adrian Duke   Bobby Cohen   Bill Fox   Carlton Miles   Peter Kimosh                           
 
  
















                  Influences....the Masters of the Drumset! 
  Victor Lewis    Al Foster   Billy Higgins   Steve Gadd   Stewart Copeland   Bill Stewart   Richie Hayward   Jim Keltner   Tony Williams   Elvin Jones   John Bonham   David Via   Charlie Watts   "Philly" Joe Jones   Jimmy Cobb   Jack Dejohnette   Ari Hoenig   Mitch Mitchell   Joe Chambers   Ringo Starr   Morgan Davis   Adam Deitch   Levon Helm   Bernard Purdie   Joey Baron   Art Blakey   Roy Haynes   Jeff Porcaro   Chris Dave   Keith Moon   Ed Blackwell   Buddy Rich   Shelly Manne   Neil Peart   Clyde Stubblefield   David Garribaldi   Gene Krupa   Sonny Payne   Kenny Aronoff   Stan Lynch   Kenny "Klook" Clark   Louis Hayes   Max Roach   "Papa" Jo Jones   Adam Nussbaum   Peter Erskine   Prince   Al Jackson Jr.   Steve Jordan   Omar Hakim   Danny Gottlieb   Steve Feronne   Chad Wackerman   Brian Blade   Brady Blade   Jim Gordon   Hal Blaine   Phil Ehart   Harvey Mason   Johnny Vidacovich   Tony Mason   Freddie White   Paul Motian   Rick Moratta   Jeff "Tain" Watts   "Jabo" Starks   Ed Thigpen   Billy Martin   Dale Armstrong   Joe Morrello   Mickey Roker   Keith Copeland   Frankie Dunlop   Chick Webb     Lewis Nash   Grady Tate   Jorge Rossy   Zigaboo Modeliste   Herlin Riley   Paul Wertico   Steve Smith   Sam Lay   Dennis Chambers   Jeff Ballard   Idris Muhammad   Clayton Cameron   Freddie Waits   Stevie Wonder   Antonio Sanchez   Ben Riley   John Blackwell   Mick Fleetwood   Art Taylor     

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w/ The Orgaphonics...Cat's Cradle, opening for the John Scofield "Bump" band