About
Buddy McEarns
and his band
The blues rock style here is infectiously enjoyable. It makes you want a stiff drink. The easy comparison is someone like the Allman Brothers Band and we’re glad to hear someone is keeping this musical tradition alive.
“Buddy McEarns’ real “thang” is his quite particular style. Called “Ragabilly” by one particularly articulate observer, this guy has a real knack for creating surprising and engaging arrangements for all his material, such that his repertoire maintains an admirable consistency, whether a given number is one of his many originals, or one of his highly original arrangements of others’ songs. This is a perfect example of an artist creating versions of songs, rather than ‘covers’ per se.”
Bio
Biography
It felt like the good ol’ days, back at the CatJam Sunday afternoons half-a-decade or so ago. Back then, though, when Buddy McEarns was still moist under the ‘lobes you know, he wouldn’t have had the grapes to do like a show like he had played tonight.
It would not suffice to say that McEarns engaged the crowd. It’s much more than that as he steps offstage, wireless (not ‘air’) guitar still spittin’ out sound, and he struts on over to Ray Chaput, local hero and semi-elder, and hands the stringed thing over to the guy. Ray, of course, he knows what to do and walks with Buddy back to the stage… almost. Chaput pulls up short of the high-rise, which is where the lights are shining, and he stays in the dark all the while he’s playing Buddy’s git-fiddle.
This is not much help to the humble scribe and wannabe video-documentarian hoping to get away with some good footage. Ray’s boss and benefactor shows a little more sense, though, when she steps up to the vocal mic. Janet Ryan and her “Straight Up” compadre were regulars back at the CatJam, as was Special Guest drummer Aundra Brock. And for that matter, bass-man Joe Dulude was so regular, in his irregular way, that all his talking-it-up was what first brought a certain humble scribe into the local music community (along with some other jammers and young-uns from the surrounding region).
Now, some six years later… the lad has swapped his one-man acoustic stand-up raga-billy thing for a full band and a whole lot more playful panache in the public eye. This feller really has style. As soon as he came around and started up, he was a hit. He doesn’t even need to play off his Holly-Costello manner; he stands on his own- and he stands with some of the area’s finest. He’s a nice guy; as soon as any of the local musicians chatted with him, they all took a liking to the lad.
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