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What: Uncle Dave Huber, solo acoustic When: 7 p.m. Saturday, April 25 Where: Frederick Cellars, 221 N. East St., Frederick Tickets: Free Information: 301-668-0311; www.frederickcellars.com; info@frederickcellars.com
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Dave Huber, who grew up near Baltimore, became Uncle Dave Huber when he started taking his music more seriously and gigging in 2002."It's a blues thing," he said of the stage name. He plays throughout the region with his band, Whale Show, and as a solo acoustic act. Saturday night, he'll play guitar and harmonica at Frederick Cellars. He played Frederick once before on East Patrick Street during New Year's Day 2007. The other half of his life consists of teaching private guitar lessons at his home. Huber started playing guitar as a teenager in the 1990s. "I started gradually getting more into folk blues roots music," he said. "At college (James Madison University) I got heavily into that and singer-songwriters -- Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Dylan -- and the guys they looked up to, like Woodie Guthrie and Pete Seeger." Huber started writing his own music, though he admitted it has a traditional singer-songwriter feel to it. Some of his songs reflect his interest in old country stars such as Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. "I'm really interested in those traditional songs," he said. "The stuff I write kind of takes on that flavor." I traveled through East Texas
Straight down to New Orleans
I lost my Roberta
Somewhere in between
On the banks of the big river
Roberta sings the blues
Every time a letter comes
Its always more bad news He started performing at open mic nights and parties when he moved back to Baltimore after college, and not long after, he was playing bars and restaurants. He released a solo album, "Uncle Dave Huber," in 2005, and is currently recording an album with his band. He has enough material to release another solo album after that. He continues to write. "If you draw from your experiences and your surroundings, that sparks a lot of songs," he said. But his songs are fictional. He creates characters -- backwoodsmen, cowboys, desperados, moonshiners, prisoners, railroad workers. "Settings and backgrounds of songs take on that (traditional roots) feel," he said. "Things can be interpreted in several different ways." In so doing, he's become a character himself, traveling the Baltimore circuit and singing his bluesy tunes. www.uncledavehuber.com www.myspace.com/uncledavehuber
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