Go, Butch!
Quite a few years ago, I worked in various capacities (cameraman, tape editor, sound board, more) on the media crew at church. During a particular stretch, the director of our disparate crew was a fellow named Butch Blasingame. Butch called the shots as we taped the church service each week, as well as occasionally picking up fretted necks for some good old gospel jamming (as much as was allowed in a buttoned down Baptist church, anyway). There are plenty of enteratining recollections of my time working with Butch, but, those are for another time. Mr. Blasingame lead our sound/video group for 5-6 years, moving on to Texas in '93 or '94.
In the last few weeks, I've reconnected with Butch (or Butcho, as he's now known), discovering that he's the lead guitarist in a band called Ravenstone. Based in Athens, GA, Ravenstone (http://ravenstoneband.com/index.shtml) derives its sound from many sources: classic Southern fried rock, blues, C & W. Contemporaries might include the likes of Drive-By Truckers and Widespread Panic. Good stuff. Check out their video for "Felonious Monkeys", a gently damning tribute to some of those fine folks in govt. and big business we can thank (at least in part) for a good deal of our current economic woes. Get your outrage on, indeed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tccxPS2mUbA
In the last few weeks, I've reconnected with Butch (or Butcho, as he's now known), discovering that he's the lead guitarist in a band called Ravenstone. Based in Athens, GA, Ravenstone (http://ravenstoneband.com/index.shtml) derives its sound from many sources: classic Southern fried rock, blues, C & W. Contemporaries might include the likes of Drive-By Truckers and Widespread Panic. Good stuff. Check out their video for "Felonious Monkeys", a gently damning tribute to some of those fine folks in govt. and big business we can thank (at least in part) for a good deal of our current economic woes. Get your outrage on, indeed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tccxPS2mUbA
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