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Drink Small

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Drink Small Acoustic Blues

Biography

“Drink Small has the biggest, deepest bass voice in the blues. His amazingly expressive sound falls right in between B.B. King and Bo Diddley. But Drink’s got a little something extra. I think it’s his gospel background.” – Mapleshade Records

 

How We Helped:
Music Maker Relief Foundation has assisted Drink Small with a monthly stipend for prescription medicine and bill payments, and has provided him with guitars. Music Maker also produced a record for Drink and has helped him book gigs throughout the United States, including performances at the Apollo Theater and the Montreal Jazz Fest. Drink is featured in the book Music Makers: Portraits and Songs from the Roots of America (2004).

 

They call me the blues Doctor ‘cause I can play all the styles, bottleneck, ragtime, Piedmont Blues I can tear them up, Chicago Blues; I am the blues Doctor.

 

Rich people got the blues because they are trying to keep the money, the poor people are trying to get the money and I ain’t got no money.

 

Jesus had the blues. He had them because he didn’t want the devil to get all of the souls. He turned the rocks to souls, so the devil wouldn’t get them all. You know he turned the water into wine, I guess he did ....


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