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Guy Bergeron

About the Musician:

I’m a Gemini, and my favorite color is plaid.   When not winding up the 6-string, I'm an avid angler and hiker. 

After trying several garage and bar bands from the late 70's to varying degrees of local success, I started gigging heavily in the late 80’s as a solo acoustic guitar act, rendering a quirky mix of original material, blues, old R&B and standard classic rock fare at gin joints, coffee houses and pig roasts throughout New England.   Lately, I'd rather be asleep by around 10 PM, so I dont do that much anymore.  I've been writing songs for about as long, and that I still do.  I'm happier in the laboratory these days.

About the Music:

People think of the guitarist singer songwriter, typically they think of folks like David Gray, Dan Fogelberg, James Taylor...you know the type.  Some sensitive dude in a turtleneck strumming softly and singing about his feelings near the fireplace at the ski lodge or in some quaint coffeehouse.  This Guy ain’t nothing like that. 

 

These guitar-propelled tunes are typically tinted on the blue side, musically speaking.  Elements of Blues and the occasional Twang of Americana are nailed together with a Rock ’n’ Roll sensibility, the recipe calling for light on experimentation and introspection, and heavy on the pulse and groove of the song.  Here are some excerpts from recent reviews of Guy’s material:

 

DEMORAMA’S TOP HONORS “KICKERS OF ASS” LIST FOR 2002, REVIEW BY LUIS FISKE:  “Bergeron deftly carries both the bluesman look and the sound. With a solid voice that's a combo of David Clayton-Thomas, Springsteen (sans the pretentiousness) and his own stylings, Bergeron nimbly handles a variety of sounds, touching on jazz, blues, folk, country and intelligent pop.”

 

SPLENDID EZINE’S LUKE MARTIN:  Describes the song “Wet Cement” as “Lamentable, hackneyed, and almost laughable” in a review done in February, 2002.  (My position is its not almost laughable…it is laughable, and that was the whole point.  Lighten up, Luke.  You want poetry, go read a book.)


SPLENDID EZINE'S ANDREW MAGILOW:  "Guy Bergeron is a genre-defying musical anomaly.  Bergeron does a superb job parting the muddy waters between blues and contemporary indie rock."

MUSES MUSE REVIEWER STACEY BOARD: “Guy's bio says he is a native of Massachusetts but someone must be UPSing him some grits and gravy. This East Coast man has more than his share of twang and blues in his music.”  Staceys whole review right here:  http://www.musesmuse.com/columnistsgreylogs/archives/00000274.html

 

 

Discography:

Last of the Hip White Boys 2002:

1. Hittin on the Bottle

2.Audience for my Pain (cover)

3. Livin in the Valley

4. Lets Find a Place

5. Mojo Mama

6. Sunday Drive

7. Some Kind of Wonderful (cover)

8. Fender Bender

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Post-Hip, 2004

1. African Mask

2. Everything Gonna Be Alright

3. Little Miss Big Shoes

4. Mama Wont You Be My Baby

5. Fresh Fish

6. Getting Out Of This Industry

7. Big Bottom (cover)

8. Howlin Wolf (cover)

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About Walking Bear Records:

To date, I've released two CD’s under my own ASCAP publishing company and micro-label, Walking Bear Records.  All my releases are available through CD Baby, as well as all their fine retail and online sales affiliates.

 

For more information, please write:

 

Guy Bergeron

Walking Bear Records

PO Box 707

Fiskdale, MA  01518

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Props & Linkage

WVOF 88.5 Fairfield University, Connecticut: http://www.wvof.org/index.php

New Artist Radio:  http://www.newartistradio.net/radio.htm

Radio Holstebro 97,4 MHZ / CABLE 89,0 MHZ:  http://www.radioholstebro.dk/

SongRamp:  http://www.songramp.com/

RhapsodyLive: http://www.rhapsodylive.com/rhapsody/lp-015-af032/kw/guy%20bergeron

Audio Lunchbox:  http://www.audiolunchbox.com/album?a=1223

C/Net Download:  http://music.download.com/guybergeron/3640-8422_32-100945541.html

ISound Page:  http://www.isound.com/guy_bergeron


 

 


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Publishing Deal!

Effective starting 2006, I've got some tunes cooking on two MTV shows, "Made" and Trailer Fabulous", including "Mama Wont You Be My Baby", "Everything Gonna Be Alright" and "Sunday Drive".  You can expect to hear some more of this sort of thing, once I start flinging more material up against the wall towards that end.