About that same time Jim Breslin began sitting in on some sessions adding harmonica to the sweet sound of the strings. In 1998 Jim Beelby bought his first upright bass so he was invited to bring it out to a practice. Jim with his natural flare for music had no trouble with it, so the bass is now fully worked into all the tunes. We are hoping Jim is going to get in the mood to bring out his banjo and spruce up a few songs with a new unique blues sound.
After recording a live demo with all four pieces in the winter of 1999 we could hear the need for some more percussion. After playing with some drummers who just took away the song, Mogens and Rene had a short view of having drums in an acoustic band like this. Insisting on keeping the original groove of the dual acoustic guitar blues we needed a drummer that could hear that groove and slip in a smooth beat without slipping out of the root guitar rhythms. Along came Nelson Poirier who sat in at a few practice sessions and played his first gig with the band outdoors at the Antrim Pub in the early summer of 2000. Nelson brings with him many year of experience with a very tasteful feel on the skins. I am sure he is one of the very few drummers who could fit the spot with the Sourpuss sound. I suppose that's why he's in great demand and even now plays everything including jazz, rock and electric blues with several bands several nights each week.
2001 brings a new twist
to
Sourpuss.
The set list now has some new swing tunes and a few more of Rene's
quick
tempo country blues numbers. To make it all click, Rick Roy from Whitby
has joined us with his congas, snare, high hat and shakers to take over
the task of percussion.
Recording is underway again
capturing
the full sound of the whole band and we hope to put out our first
complete
CD in the near future.
2002 After all the mixing and remixing, burning of sample cuts and demo's we now have - The release of "One Meat Ball" our new CD.
It's the Summer of 2004 and
were
still
at it. We just played the friday evening headliner spot at the
Eaglewood
Folk Festival and we plan to keep going with adding new tunes to the
list
of over 40 pieces they currently play.
2006 We have a new band member, RANDY
BRETHOUR (Mandolin). Randy was our contact at the Grey Goat
Tavern
in Newmarket for many years and then one day he asked if he could sit
in
on a practice. Well, when we heard him play, that was it. He was in the
band.