EDDIE BROOKS
Eddie Brooks has been a journeyman musician most of his life. He got a late start. At twenty, the harmonica substituted for college. Guitar and saxophone followed. He performed as a professional singer/ guitarist for three decades, bars, colleges, street corners, places with busted out windows and the Kennedy Center, but mostly bars. He taught music; he was a church musician for sixteen years. There were two bands, The Del Marvas, a surf band, and Sidewalk Mule, an Americana/ bluegrass outfit. Both were short-lived. There was a country duo and several street brass bands in need of a tuba player. There are recordings as you can see.
Guest Vocals Project
The GuestVocals channel combines snippets of mass produced speech with sonic absurdities built within the tenants of Dadaism, an artistic movement born in Zürich, Switzerland in the early 20th century. Here, the assembler’s task combines political protest, chance, and meticulously constructed musical nonsense: banjos, factory noise, words of wisdom, a tuna can striking a linoleum floor, all recorded using expensive microphones. Images melded to sound were compiled as quickly as possible. In other words, GuestVocals are readymade sounds of modern life.
Enjoy. Or not.
Sidewalk mule
Sidewalk Mule was a short-lived Americana and bluegrass band. The band folded, yet the work continues as a studio fabrication covering those musical genres and others. The goal, obscurity, has long since been achieved; in some ways, it has been surpassed. Some of the songs on this channel reflect the bread and butter years of the band. The rock songs were a byproduct of the book “Mean Streak” found on the literary portion of this website. A few songs showcase the spoken word and/or industrial sounds as found on Eddie Brooks’ Dadaist channel, GuestVocals.
