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Missouri Area Music thread (at the request of Cards)

Anybody mention Chris Janson from Perryville?
He was up a little higher. Had Chris in class when I student-taught. Neat kid. Not the biggest PE fan. He was a soph that year. We had a standing deal. If he didn't wanna dress out, he grabbed the guitar and set up the amp. Played and sang during class. Man, he was good as a young teen. And could cover about anything back then.
 
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The Urge and Gravity Kills were big influences on my youth. Story of the Year, all STL bands.
Dark time in my life I saw a few Urge shows at the Pageant. Man, the things I wouldn't do for a good-looking blonde back in my youth. Music wasn't bad. People watching was epic.
 
There's a feller name Steve Cropper from Willow Springs who was the house guitarist for the Stax label during their heyday so pretty much any big record that came out of Memphis from the 70s-80s featured him. He was also in the Blues Brothers movie as their guitarist.
 
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Also @ChaoticFanatic mentioned Ha Ha Tonka who were formed at Mo St in the early 2000s and feature members from KC and West Plains. They would play Lindbergh's in Springfield 2-4 times a year and it was always awesome. They're a hell of a live band. Their heyday was probably 2010-2015 but they were the soundtrack to many kick ass Saturday nights back in college. They come to Knuckleheads in KC about once a year now as well, would highly recommend anyone go see them if they have the chance.
 
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Keith Whitley, who is from Kentucky, and really became famous after his death in the late 80s...had a brother, Dwight maybe...who lived in Ironton. Always heard legend of it as a kid in high school. Remember being over there in my early 20s (heck, could've still been a teenager truthfully) and ran into him at some hole in the wall dive. Nice fella. My dad loved Keith Whitley.
 
[.....As I have matured a bit in recent years and migrated from 60's Rock-N-Roll towards American Blue Grass and the best of the best is Missouri's own Rhonda Vincent from tiny GreenTop, MO (near the Iowa border on Hwy 63..) AND the best Blue Grass Festival in the USA outside of North Carolina & Tennessee is "Starvy Creek Blue Grass Festival" near the tiny village of Conway, MO.,Rhonda Vincent and her band "The RAGE" normally close out the show on Saturdays... A good excuse to pig out at Dowds Catfish-N-BBQ... C =|~
 
[.....As I have matured a bit in recent years and migrated from 60's Rock-N-Roll towards American Blue Grass and the best of the best is Missouri's own Rhonda Vincent from tiny GreenTop, MO (near the Iowa border on Hwy 63..) AND the best Blue Grass Festival in the USA outside of North Carolina & Tennessee is "Starvy Creek Blue Grass Festival" near the tiny village of Conway, MO.,Rhonda Vincent and her band "The RAGE" normally close out the show on Saturdays... A good excuse to pig out at Dowds Catfish-N-BBQ... C =|~
WHOA HO!! Bosko likey!!!
 
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[.....As I have matured a bit in recent years and migrated from 60's Rock-N-Roll towards American Blue Grass and the best of the best is Missouri's own Rhonda Vincent from tiny GreenTop, MO (near the Iowa border on Hwy 63..) AND the best Blue Grass Festival in the USA outside of North Carolina & Tennessee is "Starvy Creek Blue Grass Festival" near the tiny village of Conway, MO.,Rhonda Vincent and her band "The RAGE" normally close out the show on Saturdays... A good excuse to pig out at Dowds Catfish-N-BBQ... C =|~
I did a phone interview with her a year or two ago to help pimp out her appearence here in Chillicothe. She was a good interview and very nice.
 
There's a feller name Steve Cropper from Willow Springs who was the house guitarist for the Stax label during their heyday so pretty much any big record that came out of Memphis from the 70s-80s featured him. He was also in the Blues Brothers movie as their guitarist.

Booker T and the MG's are in the RnR hall of fame. He wrote the guitar parts for some of the biggest songs of the late 60's for Otis Redding, Wilson Pickett, etc. like sitting on the dock of the bay, soul man, midnight hour.
 
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Porter Wagoner West Plains. Fools Face Springfield. L5.
Forgot about Fools Face, use to go to Springfield to the bar under the bowling alley on Battlefield road. Can’t remember the name of the bar but saw several local bands at that place.

 
The Bass Player, Randy Jordan, was from Lamar... Good dude. Died, way too soon.

Randy was a very talented musician who got his start in a local Lamar band called Forces. He played with Donnie and the Rock (band from Kansas) before joining the Front. The Front released a debut album but then changed the band name to Bakers Pink.
Rock on Randy
 
Has anyone mentioned Nathaniel Rateliff?

Just listened to a couple of his songs. Good stuff for sure. Wikipedia lists Hermann as his hometown. Is that right? His bio lists his address now as Denver. Colorado is a hotbed for new music. I remember seeing his name on the lineup for The Old Rock House in STL the past year or maybe two. I think I have a new favorite band!
 
supposedly some guy from Trenton was a part of Head East at some point in their career. Not confirmed, but that's the rumor I was told years ago
 
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Also @ChaoticFanatic mentioned Ha Ha Tonka who were formed at Mo St in the early 2000s and feature members from KC and West Plains. They would play Lindbergh's in Springfield 2-4 times a year and it was always awesome. They're a hell of a live band. Their heyday was probably 2010-2015 but they were the soundtrack to many kick ass Saturday nights back in college. They come to Knuckleheads in KC about once a year now as well, would highly recommend anyone go see them if they have the chance.

I first saw them in 2004 or 2005 I think. They were called Amsterband back then, this was before they signed a record deal. Great band. Great people. I think they were all from West Plains originally. I believe one of the members was raised mostly in KC but maybe spent some of his youth in West Plains. I can’t remember.
I ran into their bass player randomly at a bar probably 4-5 years ago and ended up sitting their and talking music with him for probably almost 2 hours and then he finally told me who he was and we both laughed about it. I had no idea it was him up until that point.
they filmed a music video literally on the river down west of WP a few years back. Was quite the project.
 
Just listened to a couple of his songs. Good stuff for sure. Wikipedia lists Hermann as his hometown. Is that right? His bio lists his address now as Denver. Colorado is a hotbed for new music. I remember seeing his name on the lineup for The Old Rock House in STL the past year or maybe two. I think I have a new favorite band!

Yes, I saw him in concert 4 years ago at Roots n Blues. He said being in Columbia was like coming home.
 
WHOA HO!! Bosko likey!!!
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Checkout THE KAY BROS from California MO for some very entertaining STOMP GRASS with many critters... C ;|~
 
So here’s what I’ve got without hitting the internet to do some deep research...

Ozark Mountain Daredevils(formed in Springfield)

Sheryl Crow(from Kennett, MO)

David Nail(country singer from Kennett, MO)

Sara Evans(country singer from Columbia area.... Ashland maybe??)

Nelly is St Louis(most people of at least 30 years old know that)

Tech N9ne (Kansas City Rapper who hit it big for a little while 10-15 years ago)

Ha Ha Tonka (from West Plains, MO. they’re a more indie-folk type band who’ve traveled the country and into Europe at one point I believe. Signed with a smaller record label probably 10-15 years ago.

Eminem was born in St Joseph, MO I’m pretty sure

I'm pretty sure I heard that Puddle of Mudd is from STL. I haven’t confirmed that but it was definitely surprising.
there were big on the rock scene from probably 2000-2007?

I’m sure there are many others that I’m missing.
Come on everybody!
Was Lou Rawls from Saint Louis?
 
[.....As I have matured a bit in recent years and migrated from 60's Rock-N-Roll towards American Blue Grass and the best of the best is Missouri's own Rhonda Vincent from tiny GreenTop, MO (near the Iowa border on Hwy 63..) AND the best Blue Grass Festival in the USA outside of North Carolina & Tennessee is "Starvy Creek Blue Grass Festival" near the tiny village of Conway, MO.,Rhonda Vincent and her band "The RAGE" normally close out the show on Saturdays... A good excuse to pig out at Dowds Catfish-N-BBQ... C =|~
DOGFATHER, glad you mentioned Rhonda. She is great in blue grass and I thought she was awesome when she ventured into mainstream country but evidently there weren't enough of us because she didn't find huge success in that genre. I do know that a lot of the older stars who have, shall we say, lost an octave or two, benefit greatly from Rhonda singing harmony with them. She can flat carry the number. Saw her recently at a Mo Pitney performance. If you don't like country you won't like Mo, but he is starting to build quite a following and Rhonda seemed to appreciate his vocal talents.
 
I think that you may be on to something... ;)
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Apparently there is a "rock" band from KC called Black Oxygen. I say "rock" band because after hearing their new hit song, not sure if I would call them rock.
 
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Someone mentioned Ric Boyer from Ste. Genevieve. His older brother was Jim Boyer who went on to play at night clubs in Detroit and was a member of the Rockabilly Hall of Fame.
 
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