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Mike "Doc" Palecki
(a.k.a. "Miami Mike")
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Mike "Doc" Palecki
(a.k.a. "Miami Mike") loves his harmonica and his playing
proves this. He plays with feeling and intensity and love.
Blues, rock, gospel, country, bluegrass, folk, zydeco, reggae --
you name it, Mike plays it hard and plays it great. That's
why Big Daddy has taken him to Europe 3 times for acoustic duo
tours. Docs played
with some of America's musical giants:
• BLUES with Diamond
Teeth Mary, Lucky Peterson, Sarasota Slim, Bill Wharton (The
Sauce Boss), Charles Atkins, St. Pete Twig, Pam Laws, Cathy
Cotton and of course Randall "Big Daddy" Webster.
• BLUEGRASS with Chubby
Anthony, Paul Champion, The Sandy Creek Stringers, Blind Buddy
and the Bayou Boys and Hot Biscuits.
• FOLK with Steve
Meisburg, Del Suggs, Valerie Caracapa, Ben Edmund and Grant
Livingston.
• GOSPEL with Bernard
and Angela Staton, (Bernard has been lead guitarist for Al Green,
James Brown and Little Richard), Mount Temple Missionary Baptist
Church of Liberty City, and George "Chocolate" Perry (bass player
with Crosby Stills & Nash).
• ROCK with The
Saltwater Band (where members of Jimmy Buffet's Coral Reefer
Band, including Greg "Fingers" Taylor and Harry Dailey, often sat
in), Refried Boogie, Tryst, Mimi Hearn, and Acoustic Gumbo with
Randy "Big Daddy" Webster and Nashville writer/session player
Steve Leslie.
• ZYDECO/CAJUN with
Bruce Daigrepont (New Orleans, La.) and The Zydeco Playboys
(Palatka, Fl.)
Mike also does a lot
of work in the recording studio. He most recently spiced up CD's
by Steve Meisburg and the rock band Tryst (check out Tryst's CD,
"Worth the Wait"). In 1999 he recorded with Bernard and Angela
Staton, individually and was also joined by the Mount Temple
Missionary Baptist Church. This produced the moving and
inspirational gospel CD "He Is The Way". Mike also worked with
Ben Edmund on his CD, "Morning", where his distorted harp on the
cut "Root of Evil" sounds downright evil. He has recorded
extensively with Mimi Hearn both individually and as a member of
Mimi and the Hearndogs (the Hearndogs brought down the house at
this year's Florida Folk Festival). In the studio Mike is truly
versatile. He's done a square dance CD with world famous dance
caller Elmer Sheffield, recorded country CD's with California's
Karen Lechner, and Arizona's Dina Preston, and rocked out with
Wayne DeWeil of Wayne's World on his 1995 solo effort. As you
can see Mike is a true harmonica genius.
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