MP3 Geanie Stout - BLUES: Blues Vocals

songwriter, barrelhouse to ballad, blues and jazz, Geanie on piano and vocals, with her all-star band

13 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Blues Vocals, JAZZ: Jazz Vocals



Details:
Born in Ft. Worth, Texas, a childhood move from the
the brick Oakcliff neighborhood of Dallas to the
outskirts of the east Texas oilfields brought the
seven year old red head Geanie Stout close to the
musical roots of the blues-jazz tradition that was to
become her metier. That and a southern Baptist piano
teacher with a taste for Jelly Roll Morton. A teenage
Geanie of Austin notoriety migrated to San Francisco
at 20, to open at David Allen's Boardinghouse, but not
with a band. Fortunately for her, Chicago guitarist
Michael Bloomfield recommended a sometime sideman of
Albert Collins and Freddie King, bassist Kip
Maercklein. Along with Kip came saxophonist Sonny
Lewis, the late John Chambers on drums and the
inimitable flutist Hart McNee, all veteran bluesmen
who would play with Geanie over her years in the Bay
Area. A regular gig at Port Costa's Bull Valley Inn
marked the maturation and metamorphosis of the saloon
singer now evident on Wild Women' with its Brechtian
echoes worthy of the Carlyle and where Kip is on
upright bass and Fender backing up Geanie's piano. And
hear how Producer McNee has ensembled a fine and
eclectic collaboration of known New Orleans players:
Storyville Stomper Will Smith is the Moorish trumpet
in San Antonio, Maestro Hextor Gallardo, the moving
tumbardoraes of Shadowed Sands, Jackson Square tenor
Earl Brown, the tenor who "loves you most of the time"
while drummer Dave Sobel of the Klezmer All stars
is the movable time behind Hart's baritone infused
Sugar, the evocations of Andaluz in the shadows
beneath Geanie's Weimar voice when 'her ship comes
in...'

Movie credits: The song "All i want for Christmas is
you" written and recorded by Geanie Stout and her
Port Costa band for "The Larkshead Society" in 2003. A number of songs on this current album were written by Geanie for "The Land of Shadowed Sand", a current project of Lettered Union Pictures.

Now playing: Geanie will be playing in the San Francisco
Bay area ...you could still find her at The Bull Valley
Inn in Port Costa or The No Name Bar in Sausalito...
her favorite bars...There are many long time friends
like guitar player Ed Sanchez, Terry Henry, Don Weed,
Michael Moss..and of course the fabulous bass player
Elaine Herrick from the Napa region...lots of old
friends are bound to show up...don't miss the fun....