The 18-Wheelers Featuring Raiford Starke - HOT ROD LINCOLN - Earl's Hideaway, Sebastian FL 08-18-2019 http://18wheelers.org "The 18 Wheelers like to sing songs about trucks. As a matter of fact, they’re quite possibly the only musical group in the state of Florida who play that esoteric musical genre known as truck driving music. Blending elements of roots rock, honky tonk country, western swing, rockabilly, and bluegrass, The 18 Wheelers keep it upbeat and danceable. They’re not afraid to do the occasional “cry in your beer” song either. Boasting three vocalists who sing lead, this Miami based band has been entertaining audiences from the Palm beaches to the Keys with their combination of humor, good grooves and three part harmonies. Whether they’re driving the train on a Johnny Cash number, rocking out on an Elvis tune, or singing an old classic by Buck Owens or Gram Parsons, the band seamlessly blends a deep catalog of covers with their own original songs. The 18 Wheelers sound is something that’s best appreciated in a live setting where the drinks are flowing and people are ready to dance and enjoy themselves. Raiford Starke http://www.raifordstarke.com/ Raiford Starke was lead cowboy in the band of an Indian chief, becoming a legend among the Seminole. He’s left Virginia, worked oil fields in Texas and hocked his guitar in Memphis. He’s played festivals in Europe and Oklahoma and has sat around the campfire picking with some of music’s greats. He could drop names if he wanted to. Touring a personal circuit around the big lake and along the fringes of the Everglades, his career is off the grid. Raiford Starke might play "Freebird" for you, but he won’t tweet. At the turn of the century, Colin Kenny cut his first solo album as Raiford Starke, recorded in the Big Cypress swamp (where Phish happened to be holding their millennium concert and invited the guitarist and aforementioned Indian chief on stage to jam). He’s been selling Speak Me at his shows ever since, pressing a hundred at a time and moving thousands over the years with "Girl From Immokolee" becoming an underground country hit and veritable anthem of the region, so much so that in 2013 Raiford Starke has made a new video for the song and revived Big Cypress Records to finally release it online. Right now Raiford Starke is playing at some glitzy tribal casino or Joanie’s Blue Crab shack in Ochopee. He’s performing original music and renditions from a muddy American songbook. If it doesn’t come out on Big Cypress Records or thereabouts, you’ll have to travel through Florida’s backwaters to hear it, because the man doesn’t emerge too often. We’ll keep you posted when he does, so stay dialed to this station! (by John Stacey for Big Cypress Re ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VgeSZsQsi8

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