lonewolfomb.com
Playing Since: 2006
Experience Level: Novice

Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]

Occupation: luthier, musician

Gender: Male
Age: 49

My Instruments:
a lil bit of everything

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
pre war blues, old timey

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Created 6/10/2013
Last Visit 7/25/2013

I'm an Italian/ American. The son of hard working italian immigrants. The youngest of four amazing and talented siblings. Father to an amazing and talented boy. my family and friends are spread across the globe. I speak fluent Italian, Spanish and English... I was in the pizzeria business. I'd been doing it since i was 12 years old but after 22 years of feeding the public and constantly having flour all over me i've changed careers to become a luthier.. i love to work with my hands, cook, playing music, anything to do with restaurants or food service. I"ve always made instruments since i was a boy. my first guitar was a shoe box with a stick running threw it and 1 kite string which i tuned with a screw and pliers... i also love any activity that involves the ocean. I"m a supporter of the underground, the underdog, the working class. I"m a punk rocker at heart..have always related to the music and rebellion lifestyle..i also love anything vintage..i"m a sucker for stuff that looks or sounds old..i Love the blues. i feel happy being sad at times. Lone wolf is a one man band that consists of Bruno Esposito playing various instruments simultaneously. His thumb thumping, harp blowing, vigorous banjo playing, raw, raspy vocals and rhythmic style is likely to excite all your senses. It all started when Bruno was a boy. After asking for a guitar for his birthday, his mother gave him a $5 harmonica (which she later regretted). Knowing very little about this instrument, Bruno went to a local record shop and saw a cover of a Jimmy Reed album in which he was wearing a harmonica holder and playing guitar at the same time. Fascinated by this image, Bruno scrounged enough change to buy the record, went home and listened to it. What he heard changed his life forever—the boy was blown away with the sound of the blues and soon tried to replicate it. As the years passed he got work in the pizzerias (which his italian paisans always hooked him up with) and saved enough money to buy an electric bass guitar. Soon after, he started forming Punk bands such as Kleenkut, Los Humaniax, Psychobilly band The Van Orsdels and sometimes filling in for UFC. Bruno always loved instruments and would buy (or make) as many as he could. Sometime later, while living in Georgia, Bruno hooked up with local bluegrass veterans David Thompson and Benny Rose from Due South Band and was exposed to a style that captured his heart and passion. Though he played upright bass in the band, he would always mess with a banjo and take it to work. While on his break, Bruno would pick tunes. One day, one of the dish washers (at the time 73 year old Bobby Ford) showed him clawhammer—a style that was used long ago in minstrel banjo playing. As Bruno practiced this new found technique, his thumb would always hit the snare of the banjo when he played and it would sound like there was a drum being played along with it, which made his style unique. He took it to the streets to study people’s reactions to the sound. The public reacted well to what he was doing and he would make decent money busking wherever he went. After trying to form a good band, he grew frustrated with the difficulty of finding the right people or having to travel hours to rehearse. As a result, he began playing by himself and writing songs while playing banjo, bass drum, and harmonica. The sound was full and sounded like a full band, so he decided to do it all himself and form a One Man Band (omb). LONE WOLF was born! His love for the blues, Appalachian, and Punk really stand out in his music. Have a listen at... LINKS TO MUSIC PLAYERS. http://www.reverbnation.com/lonewolfonemanband http://www.myspace.com/lonewolfomb http://www.facebook.com/pages/LONE-WOLF-omb/136426406407666?v=app_2405167945&ref=ts