Uncle Snake and the Soda Boys
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Uncle Snake & the Soda Boys play blues with an edge. Original songs by the whole gang:
Uncle Snake (Richard Stone): Guitar & vocals
Hammerin' Hank (Hank Burnett): Drums & vocals
Slim Cuisine (Michael Schwartzman): Bass & vocals
Howlin' Howie (Howard Berns): Harmonica & vocalsBand/artist history
Uncle Snake guitar, vocals & songs: Uncle Snake started his professional career in Little Royal & the Swingmasters doing soul music on the chitlin' circuit. He moved to Country & Western playing in Tex Rubinowitz & the Casaloma Cowboys. Then hooked up with Hammerin' Hank in Hurricane Dixie, and the Redeemers. Snake's best gig was backing up the legendary Otis Blackwell (songwriter: All Shook Up, Don't Be Cruel, Return to Sender, Great Balls of Fire, etc.)
Hammerin Hank, drummer: Washington D.C. Raised on Wilson Pickett, the Stones, Deep Purple, and Bob Seeger. Some of Hanks early bands were God Mother Country and The Kid Band. Hank attended U. of Md. for music/business in the 70s. In the 80s He played in the house band at Millersville Inn, and later joined up with singer songwriter Mark Mansfield to form the Redeemers. Two albums followed. Hank spent some time with the Soul review The Jim Price Band. He also played the tuxcasino circuit with the Wild Bunch, Before Becoming a Soda Boy.
Slim Cuisine, the bass player was born and raised in Baltimore Md. He describes himself as "Just another piece of low rent trailer trash from B-more". He got his start playing music in joints like No Fish Today, The Parrot Club, and the Congress Hotel, and when the "Disco Years" hit and gigs were scarce he worked as a cook between music jobs which is where he got the moniker "Slim Cuisine". It was during these years that Slim disappeared from the local music scene entirely. Some say he merely left the area to work with a traveling blues act, but there are other tall tales as to where he was during those years. In any case, Slim returned to the area in the mid-1990's and worked with various blues acts. Then in 1999 he co-founded The Railriders, a blues trio that played regularly in Baltimore and DC, and was hired as the warm up act to The Fabulous Thunderbirds and Savoy Brown. It was in this band that Slim, met Hammerin' Hank Burnett, and after a gig in 2002 they were approached by producer, Kim Michaels, who contracted them as the designated rhythm section of Big Beat Productions. They became known as The Soda Boys.
Howlin' Howie, Harmonica (Memphis Sax) & vocals: Comes from a far away place & beems in whenever the moon is full! More details on him later!!!Have you performed in front of an audience?Check us out starting in April at Max's on Broadway in Fells Point; Baltimore, MD
Your musical influences
Howlin' Wolf to Muddy Waters. Duke Robillard to Duane Allman. The Fabulous Thunderbirds to Canned Heat. Robert Johnson to Hank Williams Sr! And so on.....
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