Blumeadows
The spirit of music is in the wind. If you listen with your heart melodies are revealed. They may be beautiful, dangerous, inspiring, exotic, truthful, or spiritual depending on the messenger. Blumeadows is a singer, songwriter, guitarist and worldly musician whose message is as unique as he is. He has a lyrical and musical style that ranges from his blues roots through a Third World consciousness to an Astro-Funk world that can groove forever.
He performed throughout the Northwest with Dave Lewis, Pete Depoe (Last Walking Bear) and Red Bone but felt stifled. He moved to Los Angeles, as so many musicdians do, and found comfort with artists that appreciated his talents and heritage. He wrote, recorded and played with Liquid Jesus on MCA Records and perforned with Grammy Award winner Bruce Hornsby. Blumeadows played with Branford Marsallis, Eddie Hazel, the great Funkadelic guitarist, as well as Spacey T, from Sound Barrier and later Fishbone. On one magical night the stars aligned and as a tribute to the Astro Rock Father Jimi Hendrix, Blumeadows fronted a magnificent band called Krunchy that included Spacey T, Eddie Hazel, Stanley E., and Bernie Worrell. A bootleg tape of that seminal gig still gets raves from collectors.
In the end, Blumeadows returned to Seattle where he felt his fertility would seed. To list the musicians Blumeadows has performed with begs the point. To talk about the past is moot. It’s the dawn of a new day and Blumeadows is where his soul can roam. A proponent of world music, he listens to the spirits from all over the world that yearning to be heard. From those distant voices he draws inspiration, creates, writes and crafts songs that will lead him on a tour of the American Indian casinos and back to the stages of Europe where he feels so at home.
“Above all else, I keep it real. I am not interested in styles, trends or what other cats are playing. I am free and I have something to say.” he confesses.
“Blu is true” Spacey T says of his brother. “He is of this Earth, honest, precise and a library of music. He has heard and lived so much that he can play anything.”
“Yes, I can!” Blu confessed.
The world needs to hear Blumeadows music. It is the cry of The Looking Bird, Blu’s Indian name.
Open your heart, your mind and your soul. Listen.