Stone Willie is a new band formed around the songs of Slide and Yown. David Garrison (keyboards), James Handyside (aka Slide, vocal and harp) and Janette Richards (percussion and vocal). We've been having band practice at Harlow New Town Studio, a basement dungeon with a ceiling designed to fit twice as many people in the same building site (Get em out by Friday).
The origin of the name of our little band goes like this: David had a student named Stone Willie. No shit, someone named their baby Stone. It hit us as a much better band name. Thanks to Google we found an even better reason: the Stone Willie embalming experiment. Apparently in late 1880's a town drunk died in jail and no one knew his kin. The mortician decided to experiment with embalming which was new at the time. Seems that he got the solution off a bit and consequently turned the corpse into stone. So, starting a band later in life than most, we think preservation is in order. Play until you're stone. We plan to.
Stone Willie set list:
Found and Followed
Mother Earth Twins
Old Car
Put a String on It
A Patriot so True
Massey Ferguson 165
Travelling Show
To Be Released
Windmills Revisited
Covers:
Father Son (Peter Gabriel)
Worked Up Field (Fred Eaglesmith)
Dark Angel (Blue Rodeo)
Philadelphia (Bruce Springsteen)
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