In the temper of early country, blues, and folk music from Appalachia, Texas, and Mississippi. Syncopated fingerpicking and driving rhythms on solo acoustic guitar with simple, direct vocal arrangements. Original compositions and interpretations of traditional and modern songs.
Steve Shalit has shared stages with Hot Tuna, Vassar Clements, David Bromberg, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Aimee Mann, Paul Geremia, and many other roots music performers. In the early nineties, he studied traditional American musical forms with legendary boogie woogie pianist, Sammy Price. Steve has contributed songwriting, vocals and lead guitar to rockabilly group, Mike Mok Big 5, and to psychedelic rock group, Old Joe Bones. In the mid-nineties his electric blues trio featuring bassist Rob Cittadino, leader of the swing band, Dem Brooklyn Bums, had a four-year run as house band at the Ludlow Street Café in NYC. Other credits include hundreds of live performances in the US, a 1993 tour of Japan, a 2002 album Blues: Well Enough Alone, and 2005 albums Country Ballads & Blues, Vols. 1-2. Steve is also an advertising executive with The New York Times.
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