Short Stories, Tall Tales Daddy Treetops Recorded at Private Radio Studios-Fremont, WA
Short Stones Tall Tales, the new blues CD from veteran six-stringer Daddy Treetops offers anyone interested in the roots of rock, a look at the past and the future of the ol' I-IV-V progression.
Combining a love and admiration for straight ahead delta blues, Treetops packs this disk with ten blues encrusted numbers divided evenly between his original tunes and covers of traditional blues favorites like Baby Please Don 't Go and Maggie Campbell.
Bitten by the rock and roll bug during the height of Beatlemania, Tree latched on to the blues influenced sound of the Yardbirds and the Rolling Stones, one thing lead to another and before long he was collecting records by guys with really cool names like Furry Lewis, Sleepy John Estes and Blind Willie Johnson. The influences of these and other blues string-stretchers will certainly live on into the new millennium in the music of Daddy Treetops.
Although it's his first recording, I hesitate to call it a debut primarily because Treetops, so named because of.his lanky 6'-6" frame, has been performing around Bellingham and the Northwest both as a solo performer and in groups like the Howlin' Tomcats for going on twenty years. He knew exactly what kind of sound he wanted for Short Stories: "The focus is on my National Steel guitar and on my vocals," says Treetops and it's clear that he's achieved that vision on this recording. It's this "old" back porch blues style-- all thesound of without the hollow, scratchy sound that you get from really old LP's or early radio recordings. Tree's effort results in sound that I liked immediately. He gets plenty of assistance from Jim Piano on drums. David Hays on bass and Jon Parry on violin.
Daddy Treetops lives in Seattle and is currently performing in a variety of venues around the Northwest both as a guitarist and occasionally on stand up bass either solo or with a variety of bands. Short Srones, Tall Tales is available locally at Cellophane Square. Netizens can visit Tree online at www.seapeace.org/treetops
Joseph Ponder - The Every Other Weekly
October 1998 - Victory Music Review
'98/'99 - Blue Suede News
Winter '98/'99 - Caldonia's NW Blues Page
February 1999 - WA Blues Society The Bluesletter
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