The Scissormen/Wormwood Scrubs July 18, 2008

Friday, July 18th: Nashville juke joint duo The Scissormen http://www.myspace.com/scissormen and
Wormwood Scrubs http://www.myspace.com/thewormwoodscrubselectricalband rock the first night of the Schlafly Tap Room's Belgian Beer and Musselfest in the Club Room.

WEB SITES with music, video, press and more at www.scissormen.com and
www.myspace.com/scissormen
FESTIVALS WE HAVE PLAYED include Cognac Blues Passions Festival (Cognac, France), Memphis in May 2006 (opening for Clarence Carter), Arkansas Blues and Heritage Festival 2005 and 2006 (Helena, on side stage and main stage), Juke Joint Festival (Clarksdale, MS), New England Blues Festival (W. Bridgewater, MA), Boston Blues Festival, … This year we're returning to France for Blues en Seine in November, playing the Deep Blues Festival in MN, more to come. ALSO AT BONNAROO 2008.
RADIO AND PRESS TRACK RECORD (verified in EPK). Jinx Breakers has been aired on more than 100 US stations including XM, and we've gotten great coverge in the Washington Post, Boston Globe, Nashville Scene, France's Blues & Co., and a lot more.
OUR NEW CD is coming out later this summer and we'll have radio and print promotion.
AND, FINALLY, ABOUT THE BAND. We play a style of juke blues roots with roots deep in the Mississippi hills, where I was lucky enough to count R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Jessie Mae Hemphill as friends and mentors. We combine the traditional sounds of the Delta and hill country with our own slant. We are known for great high-energy live shows and I am earning a reputation as a hot slide player with a unique style. The quote below from Rolling Stone's Anthony DeCurtis speaks to that.
"Both on record and in live performance, Ted Drozdowski is a guitarist of spellbinding invention and intelligence. His slide playing shears the skin off your bones, and he can unleash roaring gales of sound. But lyricism and musicality lie at the heart of even his wildest moments. I have never listened to him and not been transported to a strange, beautiful place I'd never been before."
- Anthony DeCurtis, Executive Editor, Tracks,
Contributing Editor, Rolling Stone

Official Website: http://www.myspace.com/schlalfybeer