Make Up My Dying Bed (Blind Willie Johnson)

Make Up My Dying Bed (Blind Willie Johnson) Gutbucket 2012

ink, acrylic, and sawdust on found wood

This cat was intense and aggressive with a sweet slide and the trademark gravelly growl of the street performer. The playing compliments the voice and the religious subject matter! Died by contracting malaria from sleeping on a swamp damp mattress in the burned down shell of his house/church in the hot Texas sun.

Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues (Charlie Patton)

Screamin' and Hollerin' the Blues (GutBucket, 2011)

Acrylic and sawdust on found wood

Did the blues start here? Possibly.  Did the Blues lifestyle and image start here? Possibly, I really don't know, but in my pantheon of blues, it sure comes close...

See that My Grave is Kept Clean (Blind Lemon Jefferson)

See that My Grave is Kept Clean

Acrylic, sawdust, and wire on found wood (GutBucket, 2011)

Blind Lemon Jefferson was one of the original country bluesman. His influenced can be traced down through Robert Johnson, Fred McDowell, RL Burnside, to countless others.

The Stuff in Between the Stuff That Don't Gets Seen

"Tea Time With El Diablo"
Acrylic, enamel with sawdust, tea bag, and cheerios, found rope on found wood

"Brother Gut-String"
Acrylic, enamel with sawdust and dirt, cheerios, found tin lid, and rope on found wood

"Old Goat"
Acrylic, enamel with sawdust, tea-bag, cheerios, and found rope on found wood

"The Flower of the Diamond Lounge"
acrylic, enamel with sawdust, cheerios, plastic flower, and found rope on found wood

New gutbucket art, painted quickly and quietly over the span of a couple days. I do not know if they will ever see gallery walls., but it was fun to paint this loose. My son was the one who added dirt to "Brother Gut-String", thanks son!