Friday, October 15, 2010

Walter Tore's Spontobeat

Spontaneous Performance Art Created With a Sonic Palette of Mostly Blues

Walter Tore has been paying his dues, performing great American roots music and traveling the highways and byways of the universe, for the past four decades. His music has taken him across oceans as well as cultural divides. The list of Mr Tore's mentors includes Louisiana Red, Champion Jack Dupree, Lightning Hopkins, and Wilbert Harrison. Walter has learned his lessons well; his music and words flow freely from his soul into the ears and hearts of his audience. Walter began his musical journey as a self taught harmonica player sitting in with blues greats at various NYC venues. Later on, he taught himself to play guitar and fronted his own American roots music band. Over the years his band has included musical luminaries such as ex-Zappa drummer Jimmy Carl Black and Bob Dylan sideman/guitarist Charlie Sexton. For the past six years Walter has been performing and recording spontaneously created music as a one man band. He calls his music Spontobeat and claims to have performed over one million songs. As of this writing you can visit his Sound Click site and listen to or download 2,355 of them.

Walter Tore Performs Catch & Release American Roots Music 


Spontobeat is a one man show. As a one man band Walter simultaneously plays guitar, harmonica, drums, and keyboards all the while snatching songs from the air, bringing them to life, and immediately releasing them back to the cosmos from whence they came. 
 

2 comments:

  1. Wow, good stuff, I just finished listening to Bring Young People Back to Simpler Times. Nowhere did I find a link for a CD. He is very talented.

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  2. Hi Steve: thanks for checking out my stuff! It was sure kind of Rick to take the time to post a segment on me. Thanks Rick! I have thousands of different cds but none on the net for sale. I am not much into the promotion angle of music anymore. If you are interested in one send me an email. waltertore@sbcglobal.net. Walter

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