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The Kawdaddies play a Blues and Roots sound. From Lawrence, KS, this three-man band digs many styles of music, which their songs express. Their music is filled with the Blues rhythms that run through their lives, and the Folk traditions that run strongly through the Midwest. They play Delta Blues, Swing, Chicago-style Blues, Roadhouse Blues, Texas Guitar Boogies and a few straight-up Juke-Joint Country songs that would make Hank Sr. or Johnny Cash proud.
The Kawdaddies split their sets between songs they write themselves and great old tunes that make them tap their toes.
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Contact Michael or Alonzo about a booking now!
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 Born in the 1950’s in Oslo, Norway, the first music that Alonzo Beardshear heard was classical, played on the piano at his grandmother’s house and the music of the marching bands of Norway. Still a child, he moved to Washington, D.C., and while attending a festival at the Smithsonian he heard the Blues for the first time. Hooked on the soulful-sad sounds of Chicago and Mississippi, he listened to every blues record he could get his hands on and took in the sounds at local clubs. Lowell George, Roy Buchanan, and Danny Gatton were a few of the great players he had the pleasure of seeing (and stealing licks from!). The talent that came to the “Cellar Door” was a great influence, and gave him the inspiration to mix different styles of music--folk, rock, country, world beat, to arrive at his very own style.
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Michael O'Brien was born in Germany, and traveled all over Europe as a child. After a two year stint at Creighton University in Nebraska, Michael chose to finish his degree at KU. Although he has lived in six states and has visited all but Alaska, Lawrence has become his home of fourteen years. While pursuing musical interests, you can also find him selling for JCC all over Lawrence and Kansas City. To date, he has played thrash, punk-rock, blues, funk, and acid funk. Now, he plays the Blues, writes songs, and helps his partner-in-life, wife and girlfriend (same girl) make candles among other things.
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Tom Stacey was in his first rock band in high school during the early to mid-seventies. Sandwiched in between college, law school, law practice, and law teaching, he has played drums in various rock and top-40 bands ever since. For the last 13 years, he has been the drummer for the Moody Bluebooks, a rock-band of KU law faculty members that plays at the annual Women-in-Law Pub Night held at Liberty Hall. Tom teaches Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and other subjects too esoteric to mention as a professor at the KU School of Law. Besides drumming and law, his interests include collectable oriental rugs, mission furniture, and others things he keeps secret.
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