#Baby gramps professional

He always has other brilliant musicians stopping by and usually a dancer or five gyrating ecstatically at his stage front almost close enough to touch. When he plays Portland's Laurelthirst Public House the intimate casual setting is perfect and his long time sideman 'Shoehorn' supplies whatever back up make perfect sense, saxophone to washboard, flute or bongos while his feet tap out the rhythm with a life of their own. He knows America's songs and artists, blues, folk rock, protest and even some of the most memorable pop like they are all members of his immediate family so he keeps their spirits alive while turning each into his own part of the musical conversations. He is a complete original yet he is also a history lesson set to music on a Hawaiian steel guitar strummed smacked and fondled until it seems more like a trusted pet then a mere musical instrument. I Shall Continuum! Released on DVD in 2004.Baby Gramps, for me has always been part of why I love living in the Pacific Northwest.

The raw multi-camera video from three of Gramp's solo performances were given over to Sam Small of Small Wonder Video Services who edited and released 'Sauteed To A Fine Crisp'. A psychedelically inspired feast was served by Chez Ray Sewal. 'Funhouse' starred vaudevillians Dmitri Karamazov of the Flying Karamazov Brothers, Rebecca Chace, Cathy Sutherland and the UMO Ensemble, and featured Baby Gramps and Christian Swenson, among others. Stage show written by Magid teleplay written by Magid and Alex Metcalf musical direction by Mark Ettinger. Conceived and directed by Paul Magid and Ron W. This video was stitched together from three performances that were filmed at 'Funhouse': A Contemporary Theatre, in conjunction with TheatreVision and ShadowCatcher Entertainment.

Sauteed To A Fine Crisp Originally released on VHS in 1999 Re-released on DVD together with 'SomeDemos' in 2006.

Produced/Directed/Edited By Sam Small for Small Wonder Video Services.Д«aby Gramps actually shared the stage with Phish, performing the enigmatic вЂњTea Tray SongвЂќ with Fishman on vacuum during the second set.

SomeDemos Originally released on VHS in 1996 Re-released on DVD together with 'Sauteed To A Fine Crisp' in 2006.ДЇilmed on 8/26/93 when Baby Gramps opened for Phish in Portland OR.

Outertainment CD (Baby Gramps & Peter Stampfel), Red Newt Records, 2010.

Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys (two tracks, 'Cape Cod Girls' and 'Old Man of the Sea' on compilation CD), Anti-Records, 2006.

Baptized on Swamp Water CD (Baby Gramps & his Back Swamp Potioners), 2006.

Same Ol' Timeously: Vocalisthenics & Stunt Guitar (CD, Grampophone 1001), 2000.

#Baby gramps professional

Being a professional musician for over 40 years can't help but give you some sort of chops, but Gramps is a modern day Robert Johnson a revolutionary guitarist that, like Thelonious Monk on piano, can play the notes 'between the cracks.'' Discography If you listen closely and know anything about music, you'll realize Gramps is an absolutely incredible guitar player. His voice is a cross between Popeye the Sailor and a Didgeridoo and the plinkity plink of his VERY worn National steel guitar, sounds like a wind up jack in the box. Writer Patrick Ferris said he has 'a mass appeal in the sense that any audience between the age of 2 and 102 are captivated by his vaudeville antics, hilarious lyrics and animated guitar playing. Baby Gramps busking in Seattle's Pike Place Market in the 1970s