Artist description Home recordings made on acoustic and electric instruments, with singing.

Music Style Made at home.

Musical Influences Pogues, Dylan, Lomax, Cage, Monk, Ornette

Similar Artists Tom Waits, Dylan, House Carpenters

Artist History Foreman's General Ludd Music began in 1994, when he and Peter Giuliano were trying to think up names for a publishing company they'd establish to deal with the music they were creating in their band, the House Carpenters. They both independently were reading about the Luddites -- the artisinal rebels in early 19th century England -- and chose to refer to them in the name of our company. The Luddites, broadly speaking, fought for skilled handicraft in the age of industrialization: GLM offers, clearly with the aid of technology but not dependent upon it, hand made music. Each product is made singly by a human being: each CD, each package.

Group Members Bill Foreman

Instruments Guitar, drums, bass, electic organ and piano, penny whistle

Albums Building St. Petersburg, The Mind Monkey, The Duck Hunter, The Bathroom Mirror, Tangerine, The Long March through the Clubs, Colleges, and Cafes

Press Reviews "Strikingly instinctive pruned of all irrelevant ornament and affecting in its simplicity 'Tangerine' contains a mountain of dialogue punctuated by the occasional mandolin, penny whistle and accordion bonk. Packed with folk invention, some keen riffs and fermented wit - Bill summarizes in no uncertain terms, life." -- J Laramie on Tangerine, Green Mountain Music Review #10 "Foreman's 'hand made' music is at once rough-hewn and finely carved, an old coat of paint with a psychedelic glow, a farmhand with a doctorate." -- Jim Santo on The Duck Hunter, Demo Universe"Building St. Petersburg gives little outward evidence of its inner magic and exhilarating eccentricity; it's one of those discs that you might look at, briefly, but not take the time to get to know. We've all made those decisions, and this disc is a prime example of the delights you miss on the road not taken." -- George Zahora, Splendid E-zine, on "Building St. Petersburg"

Location Riverside, CA - USA

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