Coonbone - Lex Shuler
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Coonbone - Lex Shuler has a show coming up on 10/11/2009 at 01:00 PM @ Ingram... in Kinmundy, IL http://www.reverbnation.com/c./poni/6105079
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Bio
Lex Shuler grew up in rural southern Illinois and began playing the guitar as a teenager, learning the Carter Family style from his Mother, Hope Shuler. After a stint in the US Army he began a 30 year career playing bluegrass music in several bands. He is now doing solo singer/songwriter performances in the midwest.
About
Singer-songwriter Lex Shuler entertains audiences wherever he plays with music that portrays the joys and sorrows, ups and downs of true life. In a variety of roots-based styles, Lex performs on six string guitar and harmonica. His performances incorporate original and traditional material with the works of other contemporary songwriters to form a musical portrait of the history and life of rural America.
Shuler’s poetic style has been compared to John Prine and Paul Siebel as well as Jimmie Rodgers, the singing brakeman. Reviewers have also described Lex as a guitarist with a unique style whose vocal delivery is a blend of edgy and soulful and straight from the heart. Lex has a profound respect for the early bluesmen like Robert Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson and Lightning Hopkins.A veteran of the bluegrass and folk music revival in the sixties, Lex has performed in a variety of bands before beginning his career as a songwriter/soloist. For Lex, a good song is as much a work of art as any painting. His music has a timeless quality about it, with one foot in the past and one foot in the future.He combines traditional and modern styles of guitar and harmonica accompaniment to paint pictures using words, tone and rhythm; pictures of sorrow, joy, frustration and light hearted fun.
