The Tennessee harp player has developed his skill as a “Harpboxer” which is an international phenomenon of sorts. His first CD “MEMPHIS GROOVES, out July 2011 is a 13 song album featuring his loop based harp playing infused with beat-boxing. His has that harmonica singing with the combinination of the looping pedal and beat-box, and he sings too!
Although he is not the inventor of the Harpbox sound, he has infused refined blues riffs with beat box and perfected it to call it his own. Check him out on YouTube to see what it is all about. You will find it unique if not mesmerizing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u9lkpHVe6c
The pre-med student at the University of Memphis dedicates himself to school as much as he does to the harmonica. He is pursuing a musical career for now, but his ultimate goal is to become a Pediatric Neurologist.
In the mean-time "Brandon can do it all. On Memphis Grooves, he literally does it all... .Every single sound on this album is something Brandon produced with his mouth, harmonica, shaker, and thumping foot."
-from liner notes by Adam Gussow
"...astonishing skills…... . modern blues harp layered with groundbreaking ideas…... . an evolution of the blues by a teen musical master”."
-Yukari Shinagawa "Black Grooves
http://www.brandonobailey.com/
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