Hairy Larry is a musician, songwriter, producer, and promoter. He has
been playing music in Northeast Arkansas for over 30 years. He is
currently playing piano in a jazz group, Bebop Beatniks, and bass is a
blues band, Delta Legends.
He is the host of Something Blue on KASU, an NPR affiliate. Many
Something Blue shows can be heard as podcasts at sbblues.com. Something
Blue is broadcast on the internet at kasu.org Saturday nights at 10:00
PM CST.
Larry is a retired computer consultant and is back in school studying
music composition at Arkansas State University. He has written hundreds
of songs including the early internet hit, "Love Stuff" and a YouTube
favorite, "Won't Be Down Always".
Hairy Larry has promoted area musicians by putting on festivals and
other live music events including Blues Fest, Sunday In The Park,
Bebopalooza!, and Jazz Thursday. He owns HairyLarryLand, a recording
studio and indie label. HairyLarryLand CDs can be heard at
hairylarryland.com. Larry is an active concert taper and has posted many
recordings to the Live Music Archive at archive.org.
He is webmaster at Delta Boogie and the Delta Boogie Network at
deltaboogie.com and deltaboogie.net. You can also find him on Facebook
or email him at
[email protected].