BEN PRESTAGE: Down-Home & Home-Made

Ben Prestage

Down-Home & Home-Made

© 2006 Ben Prestage (634479271564)

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Deep dirty down-home Southern Country Blues...the future of Southern music...

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Hailing from the Dirty, Deep South, Ben Prestage creates a fresh, new sound on “down-home & Home-made” by resurrecting the musical spirits of the past. Prestage was voted one of the top 3 best performers at the International Blues Competition (2003 & 2006, Memphis,TN: home of the Blues-Birthplace of Rock and Roll) and he is the only two time recipient of the prestigious “Lyons/Pitchford Award” for “best diddley-bow player.” Ben now utilizes his mastery of the diddley-bow to take this traditional, Southern, folk instrument to new dimensions.
FYI: from wikipedia: The diddley bow is an 1. American string instrument of African origin. It is typically homemade, consisting usually of a wooden board and a single wire string stretched between two screws, and played by plucking while varying the pitch with a metal or glass slide held in the other hand.
The diddley bow is significant to blues music in that many blues guitarists got their start playing it as children, as well as the fact that, like the slide guitar, it is played with a slide.
A notable performer of the instrument was the Mississippi blues musician Lonnie Pitchford, who used to demonstrate the instrument by stretching a wire between two nails hammered into the wood of a vertical beam making up part of the front porch of his home.

To the unique sound of Ben’s homemade diddley-bow (made by a friend, John Lowe of Memphis, TN) he adds another homemade instrument, the lap-steel-guitar (made by his father Kenneth Prestage.) The combination of these two instruments creates a fresh, new sound that is the perfect canvas for Prestage's wordsmithing: Tragic, Chaotic, Melodic and Hep.

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  • down home
    author: robert Dito

    wonderful cd great new talent Hope to see Ben at the bamboo room in oct

  • Best cd from the best young musician around!
    author: Epi"s Boy

    Saw him live at Kalamazoo Blues Festival. He stole the show. Don't miss this guy if he comes around!

  • Great CD--Not as much fun as live, but still great
    author: Joseph

    Saw Ben live and he's great! A one man band with a solid blues voice and unbelievably talented on his guitars--especially his "cigar box" models. Also got great service from CD Baby.

  • Excellent CD - Will be needing more
    author: KB

    Purchased after hearing a song on XM Radio. Excellent CD!!!! Will be purchasing more.

  • This Cat's Got The Goods! Feel Good Blues!
    author: Q-Ball

    I heard Ben tearing it up on XM Radio and had to have this CD. It's been in my player ever since I got it. GET IT!

  • very good cd, looking forward to more
    author: Ronnie Brewer

    I bought Down Home And Homemade after hearing one of the songs on XM. Its a very good cd and I am looking forward to Ben's new releases.

  • Ben does it again!
    author: Hurricane

    I've been a fan of Ben's live shows for a few years now and this latest CD is everything I find in a live show except the shots & beers! This music takes hold of your soul and makes you move. The last song, Colors, is one Ben wrote & is a little different than the rest but is one of the most powerful I've heard him play. It adds a whole 'nother dimension to an already unbelievable musician.

  • What Ben is about
    author: Chris Jay

    I recorded this album for Ben in a small lil studio, everything you hear is 1st take, no over-dubs! Ben is one of those guys that can blow your mind then buy ya shot to drink with him. One of the greatest friends I have!

  • Excellently awesome
    author: Stacy

    Absolutely all that I thought it would be and more!!! Saw Ben at FL Folk Festival, wasn't all that familiar~~Big Fan now!

  • Good work from a rising blues artist

    Well I admit, I bought the CD for track #2 and my girlfriends and I cackle over it. Overall, the music on this CD has good groves, an interesting sound, and there is no doubt this guy is an up and coming blues musician. I look forward to keeping up with his future success!

  • More Awesomeness!! Is that a word?
    author: LaSLo

    Excellent! Continue the musical journey. Grab his first two if you don't have them, then get this one. Hell, get all three now.

  • Great Stuff !! A sure cure for the blues.
    author: Cotton Top

    A great cd from one of the best young blues players around. Ben really gets it. I saw him in Jax. at Springing The Blues Festival and seeing is still unbelieving.

  • Ben is a master of the blues guitar and great lyrics.
    author: Brad Gammon

    Ben's new recording Down Home and Home Made is his best yet. If you enjoy good blues guitar from an extrodinarily talented musician, get a copy of this CD. This disk is a must-have for any blues guitar fan.

  • *****!
    author: Tristan

    I love the new cd.

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