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Rock 'n' Roll ain't pretty and neither is Scott H. Biram.
The self proclaimed 'Dirty Old One Man Band' successfully,
and sometimes violently, lashes together blues, hillbilly
and country precariously to raucous punk and godless metal.
Biram ain't no dour ass singer/songwriter either, sweetly
strumming songs about girls with big eyes and dusty highways.
HELL NO!!! His singing, yodeling, growling, leering and brash
preachin' and hollerin' is accompanied by sloppy riffs and
licks from his 1959 Gibson guitar and pounding backbeat brought
forth by his amplified left foot. The remainder of this one-man
band consists of an unwieldy combination of beat-up amplifiers
and old microphones strung together by a tangled mess of guitar
cables.
Years of non-stop touring have honed his assault to a fine
edge; his wide-eyed throw downs in the First Church of Ultimate
Fanaticism routinely lead giddy followers to a fiery baptism.
Scott H. Biram won’t die. On May 11th, 2003, one month
after being hit head-on by an 18-wheeler at 75 MPH, he took
the stage at The Continental Club in Austin, TX in a wheel
chair - I.V. still dangling from his arm. With 2 broken legs,
a broken foot, a broken arm and 1 foot less of his lower intestine,
Biram unleashed his trademark musical wrath.
When Scott H. Biram took the stage at his 2004 SXSW festival
showcase right after Kris Kristofferson he was quoted as growling
"They said that was a hard act to follow....I'm a hard
act to follow motherfuckers!!" The stunned crowd looked
on.
"An impassioned multi-instrumentalist unleashing a brutal
cacophany with the fury of someone whose check from the Devil
finally cleared. Half dirty blues, half underground punk,
half honky-tonk, half revival meeting...oh shut up about the
math. You'll see the light." Dayna Papaleo Rochester
City News
"His barbarous exorcism of Depression-era blues--with
a bedrock of frantic flatpicking, foot stomps into a floor
mike, and gutteral growls through a distortion mike--has made
Biram a rising star in Austin." - Brian T. Atkinson,
No Depression
"Biram is the kind of guy you don't laugh at all the
way just in case he really is crazy. We all wanna be entertained,
but nobody wants to get stabbed in the head with a screwdriver."
Frank de Blase Rochester City News
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