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Freddie Vanderford...Piedmont B...

- Buffalo, SC Blues / Americana / Folk

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Members: Freddie Vanderford - Harp/Vocals ,Brandon Turner - Guitar

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"FAYSSOUX & CO." with Fayssoux Starling McLean-vocals/guitar; David Ezell-vocals/guitar; Freddie Vanderford-vocals/harmonica; and Joe Jones-vocals/Bass play Friday at Woodruff Glory Days Festival!! Se

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“Freddie Vanderford is one of the hardest working blues men in South Carolina, maybe in the whole world. He channels the very spirit of the great Piedmont blues men like Rev. Gary Davis and Pink Anderson with great vocals and red hot harmonica. I have been listening to and watching Freddie for many a year, and this is the finest record he has ever released. Great classic blues like “She Can Cook Good Sallett,” accompanied on acoustic guitar by long time side man Brandon Turner, and the hopin' “Greasy Greens.” This time out, Vanderford expands his boundaries and delivers the goods on some good ol' country songs like Johnny Cash’s “Delia’s Gone” and “I Still Miss Someone,” and Townes Van Zandt’s “White Freightliner Blues.” Of course, Freddie also covers Robert Johnson and turns in at least one tune he penned himself, an excellent one called “Trouble Come Knockin.” Good Piedmont blues with some of the hottest harp blowing this side of John Popper, or shou”

— Michael Buffalo Smith, Universal Music Tribe

“Deep down within the foothills of South Carolina, there once lived a blues man named Pink Anderson, a man who wrote the blues, sang the blues, and lived the blues.... A man who sang and danced and told jokes,... He was a man who would also influence musicians as varied as Buddy Guy and the late Toy Caldwell,.. A few years later, a young whippersnapper by the name of Freddie Vanderford would also come out of Spartanburg County, singing and blowing a mean harp in a band called The Shades, all the while tipping his hat to the original Piedmont blues man himself, Pink Anderson. Nowadays, Vanderford is holding his own sort of medicine shows, accompanied by the youthful Brandon Turner on acoustic guitar, and paying homage to the enduring legacy of Piedmont blues. (Read more)”

— Michael Buffalo Smith, The Southerner

“Throughout his life, Freddie Vanderford has played thousands of concerts and appeared on numerous albums. He has been part of such outfits as the Shades and the New Legacy Duo and even listed as “Funky Freddy” (sic) on an early 1980s compilation, “The Carolina Collection,” that included a band he was in called Bighorn. But not until recently has the Union County-based Vanderford produced a recording that he could truly call his own...(read more)”

— DAN ARMONAITIS, Spartanburg Herald Journal

“Armed with a harmonica, washboard and guitar, Freddie Vanderford can interpret most any blues, folk, soul, Americana or Rock and Roll song. With astounding harmonica licks taught to him by the late medicine show performer and Piedmont blues harpist, Peg Leg Sam, Vanderford can immediately captivate any audience.”

— The Spartanburg Convention and Visitor's Bureau

“Blending backwoods country, folk, blues and sheer cult of personality he has delivered a rural classic that just gets better with each listen. Mixing traditional tunes with some originals and well chosen covers, he takes us on a musical journey that we might have never taken. His instrument of choice is harmonica and his base sound is rooted in the Piedmont style of blues. He's the type of artist that you would find in a music issue of Oxford American magazine, or as a feature chapter in an update of Greil Marcus's "Mystery Train." You heard about it here first.”

— Village Records

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