Bucket of Witches + Band in Lehi, UT

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Bucket of Witches is a 3 piece Roots Rock, Funk and Soul band playing an 80/20 mix of originals and covers. We would love to add a 4th member heavy on Hammond B3/Leslie sounds. We are very open to new ideas, experimentation and improvisation. We play mostly original music but also play cover that we dig.

Singer/songwriter Mikael Lewis has lived in more places than most will visit in a lifetime. This wanderlust is ever present in Lewis' musical tales of travel, loss, hopeful dreams, love, politics, and the evolving beauty of life. These poetic landscapes are supported by an adept, rhythmic, percussive, and sometimes, bizarrely tuned guitar style reminiscent of Peter Mulvey, Ani DiFranco and Bruce Cockburn. Lewis carries his tunes with a laid back, soulful voice referencing Sam Cooke, Beck, Michael Stipe, and the occasional spoken word of Johnny Cash.

Bucket of Witches skillfully blends elements of Folk, Lo-fi, Rock, Funk and Americana with subtle hints of Jazz and World Music.

Screen name:

bucketofwitches

Member since:

Oct 22 2010

Active over 1 month ago

Level of commitment:

Very Committed

Years together:

10

Gigs played:

Over 100

Tend to practice:

1 time per week

Available to gig:

2-3 nights a week

Age:

54 years

Influences

Tom Waits, Wilco, Marc Ribot, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Counting Crows, Bruce Cockburn, Ani DiFranco, Subhumans, Citizen Fish, Sting, Cash, Hendrix, Dead Kennedys, Richard Thompson, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin, Decembrists, Peter Mulvey, Joni Mitchell.... This list would be impossibly long. Basically anyone doing their own thing in their own way.

Members Of Band

Mikael Lewis-songwriter, vocals, electric and acoustic guitars and harmonica.

Eric Watson-drums

Chase McKnight-Bass

EQUIPMENT

Mikael- Tanglewood Sundance, Teton acoustic, PRS Santana (x2), PRS semi hollow, Kay lapsteel (1930s), Fender HR Deluxe III,, various guitar effects, LPcajon, various doumbeks, djembes, shakers and noisemakers, various vocal and instrument mics.
Mikael has been a professional sound engineer for over 10 years.

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