You will notice the raw combination of Dobro slide guitar, Maton acoustic, stomp board and rich vocals in Mark Porter's blues. His musical path follows the Mississippi Delta through Texas, Chicago, New Orleans and Memphis, with folk overtones and original material also present. Mark is a third generation musician whose influences reach back to early music from America's Deep South. He brings an understated stage presence and a performance history that includes blues, roots and music festivals in Australia and New Zealand. The moment to hear him is during wedding drinks, when earthy acoustic blues can give the gathering unmistakable character.
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Deep South blues played on a Dobro resonator and a Maton acoustic, with a stomp board underfoot doing the work a rhythm section would normally do. The material runs from the Mississippi Delta across Texas and up to Chicago. Mark's voice draws comparisons to Russell Morris often enough that it's worth mentioning. It's raw, and deliberately so. Nothing overplayed, nothing tidied up.
Two ways to do it. If you're running a festival with a system in place, Mark needs a vocal mic, a DI for the Maton acoustic, an amp for the Dobro and a DI for the stomp board. Give that list to your sound engineer and it'll be understood. Otherwise he can turn up with his own gear and handle it himself, which suits smaller rooms and private bookings.
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