Cover of Robert Johnson song Love in Vain

Love In Vain

Hoochie Coochie Man

Robben Ford - Top Down Blues

Bessie Smith - I M Wild About That Thing (1929)

Blues clair (Django Reinhardt)

Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby Mcgee

Slow Blues jam with a Japanese Squier Strat, Seymour Duncan's Everything Axe pickups set modded. Relax...

Otis Rush Style Blues

B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Buddy Guy, Albert Collins & Jeff Beck Apollo Theater, NY 06 15 93

12 tracks recorded at Dockside Studio in Maurice, LA.  April 2019.
Produced and engineered by multi-Grammy winning producer/engineer, Tony Daigle.  Mastered by Jim Demain at Yes Master in Nashville, TN.

This recording project came about in 2018, at the urging of a friend of mine from Lafayette, LA.  He thought that my Piedmont blues style of songwriting and guitar playing was a good fit for the rhythms and sounds of Cajun, Creole, and Zydeco music.  He took me out to tour the infamous Dockside Studios in Maurice, LA, and encouraged Dockside’s founding engineer/producer, Tony Daigle, to attend my show in Lafayette that evening.  Tony did come to my show that night, and upon leaving, told me that if I were to want to come to Maurice to record, he was my man.  With the help of Tony Daigle and local drummer, Dave Nezat, we began to assemble an all-star cast of Lafayette area musical heroes and make a plan.

The lure of working with such an illustrious & talented group in this multi-award winning Louisiana studio was too good to resist.  I went home from that tour and began to write a collection of songs, specifically for this project.  I returned in April of 2019 to spend one solid week with Tony and the guys, laying down all of the foundational tracks. Over these past several months, we have added various instrumentation and harmony vocals and as of February 2020, completed all aspects of recording, mixing, and mastering.

The ancient Native culture of the South has been an inspiration as it relates to our travels and what has become an annual pilgrimage to the Mississippi Valley. This collection of songs represents our annual migration, just as my ancestors migrated from this region to the Western Plains so many centuries ago; sharing culture through music and more along the way. It is the product of our imagination of what was, and what has become our love of the sounds of the south.

Prisoner

From the album Gutbucket Slims Blues Emporium featuring Mos Def, Christina Aguilera, Rick James, Leadbelly, Michael Jackson, Charles Bukowski and More.
Download the full album for free at www.gutbucketslim.com

Gutbucket Slim Vs Mos Def Vs Howlin Wolf

Recorded at the birthday of my dad ;) 
Roger-Cajon
Dieter-Guitar
Johann-Piano
Jack-Harp 
Leo-Vocals 

Help me - Sonny Boy Williamson ( Live Cover )

With a boom crash boom and a shit load of borrowed blues, Gutbucket Slim just don't give a fuck if you like it or not. Though there may be much speculation to his real identity it matters little to Slim, this is because his blues emporium is supposed to be a shared experience, a kaleidoscopic collage of blues, beats, rhymes and riffs made for the sheer hell of it. Borrowing from a multitude of eras and hosted by a slew of unlikely (and unwitting) collaborators, Slim has created a kind of musical patois, something that shouldn't make sense but strangely speaks a common code to all of us.

Whether it be mixing Howlin Wolf with Mos Def, Michael Jackson with a texas shuffle, or George Carlin with Muddy Waters, Gutbucket Slims Blues Emporium is fused together with the guitar slinging antics of Slim himself and melded shut with a whole bunch of unpretentious, but never trivial good times