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He plays a raggedy hollow-body guitar and kick-drum simultaneously,
wears an Evel Knievel-style jumpsuit and sings through a
telephone grafted to the front of a motorcycle helmet. But even if
Bob Log III weren’t overflowing with shtick, his brand of
gutbucket blues and wild-child lyrics would still be worth a listen.
His guitar-playing is a hodge-podge of bluegrass-flecked flat-picking
and Delta blues-inspired slide playing, though most of his songs exist
as a maelstrom of bent notes and rebel yells.
Fellow one-man bands Williem Maker and El Paso Hot
Button open.