Music is too important to leave to professionals
Sweet Tater TeRonde is a throw-back to a simpler time when share croppers, loggers, miners and all kinds of working men, came home after a hard day and sat on their back porches to make a little music, just for their own entertainment. For whatever reason; maybe just to howl at the moon or to simply try to make sense of their world.
In many ways, Tater is like a rusty, old farm impliment nearly forgotten on the edge of the field, but his playing sort of reminds us that the basic language of the soul is music and that music is too important to leave to professionals!
Sweet Tater strives to keep his music simple, almost primal and to make it sound like a cave drawing looks. If a song survives what he does to it, it's a good song!
Sweet Tater has been busking (playing for tips) since 1981 and considers it the most "sporting" way to make money playing music.
Busker's manifesto
or put a smile upon your face
but if ya like the noise I'm makin'
wont ya drop a tip into my case?
Sweet Tater
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New Sound for Des Moines
Acoustic Guitar Magazine's Reader's Rig Column
Myspace: Schedule Main / Music
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Email me at matthew@ywdh.org