Internationally touring juke blues rebels Scissormen bring their high energy slide guitar powered sound of Mississippi Hill Delta Blues to HORIZON RECORDS in the Bohemian Café for the Tower Of Song In-store series Friday July 16 4:30pm- it’s FREE! And Same night they blister a full show at 10pm also FREE!

The band has recently returned from a brief tour of Switzerland including the Blues Rules Festival, and has a new documentary film by famed director Robert Mugge in production, along with a live CD and a album in the works from Ted’s Americana side project the Tennessee Tail Waggers. Scissormen are touring on the heels of their new CD Luck in a Hurry, which was a top featured disc on XM RADIO’s B.B. King’s Bluesville. Band leader and slide guitarist Ted Drozdowski has a reputation for playing slide with almost anything – documented in the band’s “Blurt Magazine Slide Guitar Challenge” video at Youtube.com/Scissormen — including a light bulbs, a Razor scooter, boots, a flame thrower, a 9 mm. pistol and a full plate of spaghetti. He challenges all audience members to bring something for him to play with. With a high-energy live show that’s taken the band from Bonnaroo to Memphis is May to France’s Cognac Blues Passions, Scissormen are rapidly earning as reputation as one of the most exciting live acts in blues today. Reviews for Luck in a Hurry include:

Roots music legend Jim Dickinson says “Ever wonder what would have happened if Bukka White had discovered the Fuzz Tone? Or if Skip James had played piano with Antenna Jimmy and Drumbo from the Magic Band? Scissormen is acid blues for the 21st century.” “This ain’t your grandpappy’s Mississippi blues. When the dials are set just right, it’s absolutely brilliant. Well worth a listen. And another. And several more.”Cash Box

Mind blowing shows…incredible slide guitar work…Luck in a Hurry propels the raw, ethereal sounds of Mississippi hill country blues into the 21st century with Scissormen’s take no prisoners approach. Simply put, if you’re a hill country or slide guitar fan, this disc will blow your doors off their hinges.”
—Blues Bytes

“Both on record and in live performance, Ted Drozdowski is a guitarist of spellbinding invention and intelligence. His slide playing shears the skin off your bones, and he can unleash roaring gales of sound. But lyricism and musicality lie at the heart of even his wildest moments. I have never listened to him and not been transported to a strange, beautiful place I’d never been before.”Rolling Stone’s Anthony DeCurtis “That raw insistent quality has inspired Drozdowski to create a great, propulsive wall of sound on his ax.”- Jeff Johnson, Chicago Sun-Times “Drozdowski is one of the blues’ most distinctive and exciting stylists – a stalwart slide guitarist bringing some contemporary perspective and technical flamboyance to vintage sounds.”- Ron Wyn, Nashville City Paper “Like the Black Keys, Scissormen leader Ted Drozdowski is a white guy raised in a depressed Northern city who’s drawn to the haunting and primal sounds of the Delta. But while the sound of his hipster counterparts from Akron bears a certain retro fetishism, Drozdowski’s music is a little more forthright and a little less, well, du jour. It’s also raw, hypnotic and occasionally jarring.”- Jack Silverman, Nashville Scene “Ted Drozdowski is a trippy guitar player.”
—Otis Taylor