![]() ![]() If chosen add your inside message in the personalisation box. This square card measures 148x148mm (approximately 6圆”)Ĭhoose your envelope colour, heart colour and inside message requirement from the drop down menu. The heart on the card front can be blue or pink. It was exciting to play the same stage at the Ed Sullivan Theater that they debuted on.This personalised printed Father's Day Gramps card is printed on 350gsm stock which has a smooth, tactile feel and comes supplied with a white, blue or kraft envelope and can be personalised with an inside message or left blank inside if preferred. ![]() “The green room was interesting because of three photos on the wall: the debut of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, and Dylan”s audition before he cancelled. The success of the record led to an invitation to perform his song “Cape Cod Girls” on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” where Baby Gramps was more enamored with the history of the studio than all of the hoopla surrounding the album and movies. I have collected world music for 40 years- since before it was called World Music.”Īfter several decades of travelling and playing anywhere he could, including busking on the streets, Baby Gramps found he had some well-placed fans in Hollywood, and he was invited to record a few songs for Rogues Gallery: “Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys,” a2006albumthatGore Verbinksi and Johnny Depp put together after working on the second “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. “During that time and since then I have searched out and created my own repertoire. Over the years of his many travels, he says has met and been inspired by a host of luminaries in the music world, including Sun House, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Big Joe Williams, Elizabeth Cotton,Dave Van Ronk,Ramblin” Jack and Taj Mahal. I”m an Hobohemian from Bumhemia,” says Baby Gramps via email. I was hoping to go to California, but ended up in Spokane. “One of my early ramblings was in a boxcar in Seattle – my friend closed the door and the car went back and forth on the track. That hobo persona, one of riding the rails from yesteryear and learning songs over the course of a lifetime could seem to be simply part of a mystique that he”s cultivated – but according to the man himself, it”s based at least in part in fact. Though he”s been at it since the 1960s, the musician remains for the most part an enigma – not much has been publicly offered about his early life, and with his long, grey beard and old-timey wardrobe, Baby Gramps looks like he could have just stepped off a spectral train straight out of the Depression -or any number of classic Americana songs. He then weaves tales of all manner and subject, brought to life with his gravelly voice, palindrome- laden lyrics, and footstomping stage persona. Mixing the myth-making mystique of a traveling troubadour of the past with an incredible array of musical influences ranging from the blues, folk, country, jazz, ragtime, sea shanties and other sounds from around the world, there is no other performer out there on the road today quite like Baby Gramps.Ĭoaxing a vast array of sounds out of his well-worn vintage National guitars, the seasoned performer – he isn”t particularly forthcoming about his exact age, other than stating he has been playing guitar for 50 years – uses a variety of both conventional and somewhat odd playing techniques, such as fretting with his elbow and throat singing to lay a solid musical foundation.
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