George Scherer
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George Scherer

Birmingham, Alabama, United States | Established. Jan 01, 1991 | SELF | AFM

Birmingham, Alabama, United States | SELF | AFM
Established on Jan, 1991
Solo Americana Country

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Discography

Scherersongs  Boo Boo Records  1995
Bucksville Woman
Just Bein Me

millennium blues Boo Boo Records 1999
Never Get Out of This World Alive
millennium blues

The Election Year Waltz  Boo Boo Records 2004
Two Bush Blues
Dead Fish Floatin'
Chicken Pot Pie
Nobody Takes the Train
Livin' By the Gun
Junko Partner
Goin' Back to Lowetown
You Told Me So
Rich Young Ruler
The Election Year Waltz

Headlight Blues  Boo Boo Records 2013
Circuit Ridin' Blues
Delta Blues
I Dreamed Last Night of Kerouac
Po' Boy
Headlight Blues
Late Nite Radio
Lodi
This Ol' Truck
The Stickin' Kind
Night Owl
I Got a Girl
Last Call For Alcohol
I Ain't Done Yet


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George Scherer is an Americana singer/songwriter from Alabama, who for almost 30 years has played around the state and the southeast, as well as in far-flung spots like Colorado, Texas, and No Carolina.  He has played his original music and distinctive covers in restaurants, bars, coffee shops as well places like Eddies' Attic in Atlanta, the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville, the Flora-Bama, Lulu's, The Nick in Birmingham, the Noble Savage in Shreveport, the Black Warrior Songwriters Festival, the Birmingham Do-Dah Day Festival, the Carrboro Music Festival in NC, Celebrate Marettia Festival, to name a few.   His songs have won awards at the Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie songwriters competition.  He has released 4 CDs of mostly original music and has had comparisons to Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie, Steve Earle, Tom Waits, and Steve Young. His songs vary from love songs and comic portrayals of Americana, to serious and socially conscious. His raspy voice and singing style is often compared to Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen or Johnny Cash.  

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