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Scissormen added 2 new blog posts. View Scissormen's blog posts Jun 9
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About Me:
Scissormen are devils or demi-gods, depending who you ask.

To some crusty blues fans, they're rock 'n' rollers muddyin' up the music's waters. But to people who understand that the blues is still a vital style that can be every bit as hip and creative as what's on the stages of Warped or Coachella, they're saviors. And those are the folks the band's been playing in front of for the past two years.

Touring behind their debut CD Jinx Breakers (Hi-N-Dry Recordings) - which was produced by Morphine's Billy Conway — and the acoustic When the Devil Calls… (Barking Koala) they've seared a path with their incendiary live performances from festivals to premiere nightclubs to blues rooms to juke joints to coffeehouses to punk rock shows from Maine to Mississippi and out to the West Coast and Europe.

Ted Drozdowski, the Nashville-based band's slide guitarist and leader, understands that Robert Johnson, Jimmy Page and Johnny Ramone share the same spiritual connection. So he turns his guitar into an Ouija board and channels all three in blazing, over-the-top performances which typically find him leaping up on tables and running out in the street, playing slide with everything from martini glasses to old worn-out boots.

"I came up in punk and psychedelic rock bands, but playing the blues the way we play it means everything to me," says Ted. "This is music with teeth and guts and heart, and it rocks like hell when it's done right. And we do it right! I caught the fever from musicians like R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough and Jessie Mae Hemphill, who taught me to put every bit of my heart and soul into this music. So that's what I do."

"We work hard to give people who hear us live a show they'll never forget. And we work hard to keep this music kicking and moving forward, just like Jessie, Junior and R.L. did, and a handful of the best musicians from the Mississippi hills still do. We honor the past, but we're all living in the present. And so is our blues."
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R.L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, Jessie Mae Hemphiill, John Lee Hooker, Sonny Sharrock, Kenny Brown, the damn Stones, Coltrane, Muddy, the Wolf, T-Model Ford, Bobby Rush, Buddy Guy, Ronnie Earl and soooo many more.

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Read about Scissormen's show at Bonnaroo 2008

I got asked to write about Scissormen's gig at Bonnaroo by Gibson.com. It was an awesome experience. You can read about it here: http://www.gibson.com/en%2Dus/Lifestyle/Features/I%20Played%20Bonnaroo%5F%20A%20Dirty%20Lit/ Also a couple fun pictures from the gig and an MP3 of the new version of our song “Tupelo” recorded for Luck in a Hurry, which will come out on September 2 nationwide. Should have some copies for the Deep Blues Festival. Stay cool everybody! - Ted

Posted on June 23rd, 2008 at 11:02pm — No Comments (Add)

New Scissormen album comes out bad and nationwide on September 2

Well, stay tuned or visit your local cool music shop or do whatever you do these days when new music you wanna hear is on the way, because we are finally having our first full tilt boogie nationwide CD release for our next disc on September 2. It's called Luck in a Hurry and it gets way down in the dirt and rolls around like a dog. It follows our two indie discs which are available at iTunes and CD Baby: our electric debut Jinx Breakers, and the acoustic When the Devil Calls… (Also mentio… Continue

Posted on June 9th, 2008 at 2:14pm — No Comments (Add)

What the hell have we been up to?

Wlell, finally finished the new electric album and it's got a bunch of cool surprises including some heavyweight guests and at least one that pretty much nobody could guess. Just mastered it, and the whole damn thang rocks. We're figuring it'll be out come August/September. Will have a final date pinned down by the end of April and a confirm from the label that's running with the grenade, but it's pretty much a done deal and we're psyched to be working with these guys, which'll put us in some he… Continue

Posted on April 3rd, 2008 at 12:30pm — No Comments (Add)

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At 7:47am on April 18th, 2008, GW said…
I just read your article about Fat Possum's recording artists. I felt it was an article I'd want to read again. I'm looking forward to checking out your recordings also.

Time goes by, but your words bring back some good memories.


http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/
At 11:07pm on April 5th, 2008, Eric said…
The Fat Possum article on Gibson is fantastic Ted. I just put it up as a "must read" on our home page. And glad to hear new music is on the way...I can't wait to get my hands on the new record when it's released later this year.
At 12:39pm on April 2nd, 2008, Poe said…
Scissors "hand" man:

Please send your material to WABG-AM Radio 2001 Garrard Avenue Greenwood, MS 38930. www.jamespoe.com
At 1:34am on March 20th, 2008, billy jones said…
Thanks for adding me to your site.

Billy Jones
http://myspace.com/billyjonesbluez
At 7:17am on March 7th, 2008, ACMercker said…
Great Comment on Promoting... thanks. -Christian
At 10:15am on March 6th, 2008, Scissormen said…
I think we may have crossed paths in MS, Helena or Memphis a couple times.
At 10:54pm on March 5th, 2008, Ricky Stevens said…
Why do I think I know you guys from the real world?

Tell Greg I said hello.
At 5:41am on March 5th, 2008, Blind Rat said…
I'm doing a lot more good things than bad these days I've got good Karma.

Blind Rat(Loving the music)
At 6:58pm on February 22nd, 2008, Becky (Old School) said…
Never heard the album, I will have to get a copy from you one of these days. I, of course, think you should play at Two Stick when you come back to Oxford. It's my refuge on the Square from the sorostitutes and frat boys. I mean, they're there too, but I can totally tune them out. Chad and Allison feel like part of my already dysfunctional family, and Two Stick by proxy feels like home. And John, well...I hope I can get to know him better when he comes down again or when I go to A'dam eventually. He is a living legend and perhaps the last of his kind, yo.
Good to find you on this site; I like that there are less than 200 members and I already know some of these folks. Some semblance of community thus far.
See you 'round...Mississippi is one big small town!
At 6:39pm on February 20th, 2008, Becky (Old School) said…
You guys are so badass! I saw you at Two Stick a few months ago and was rendered motionless and in awe.
Good stuff.
Member of John Sinclair's Guitar Army, ehh?
I got the Guitar Nation symbol tattooed on me less than 2 hours ago and it is badass. John Sinclair is badass. And so are you.
 
 

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