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When you think of the blues you might picture a sweaty, tin-roof bar off a dusty road, petite girls slowly swinging their hips in faded sundresses to the sultry, suffering sound of a harmonica played by an old black man in a worn snakeskin hat, a lifetime of woes written in the wrinkles on his face. You probably would not think of Adam Riggle, a smiley twenty-nine year old with blonde dreadlocks and a red beard, sipping water in the smoke-free barroom of the Hideaway in Louisville. He dresses the part, with a ragged flannel shirt, blue jeans, and plain brown shoes, but is somewhat soft-spoken with a mellow demeanor, not the vision of the blues anyone would expect. Once he takes the stage, though, you will be surprised. Adam screams out the lyrics with the graveled voice of a street-corner preacher, eyes squeezed tight and his face contorting to the different pains that inspire his music; you get the feeling, though, that he prefers to let his guitar do the preaching. He is intimate with the instrument like with a long time lover who knows you well enough to finish your sentences. His fingers hit the strings, release each note on his brown Les Paul to bellow the pains that have been passed down through the ages, beautifully succinct, but somehow free. The contortions of his face change as if with new memories of scorned lovers and tragic losses. His face is red. Sweat drips from the wrinkles of his forehead, down his cheeks to rest in his beard or on the floor of the stage. But, as he swings his head from side to side with each chord change, his dreads dance around, paradoxically happy and sad, and you know that he is having a good time, that this is what he lives for. His drummer plays enthusiastically, ecstatically. He hits the skins with his whole body. Like a happy marionette, both of his legs bounce up and down synced to the swing of his arms, hitting his Tama set to keep the backbeat. James Warfield, Adam's right hand man, finishes out the Mississippi Adam Riggle Band as bass player, keeping rhythm with a gentle sway and under-exaggerated stage presence.Read more... Add new comment
Justin Munsey of 7 Day Sun sent out a random message in the 502 boards asking "Does any one know of that guy who did the 21 questions thing?" I had to send him some questions to pick his brain a bit. Justin was very cool concidering my questions are a bit all over the place :)
