Adam Blessing

Adam BlessingFly Magazine-Band/Performers Archive Article
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Adam Blessing
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Three years ago, Adam Blessing was toiling away in a restaurant when suddenly, somewhere between refilling someone's Diet Coke and sprinkling a customer's salad with ground pepper, he had an epiphany.
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Fast forward to 2008, and Blessing, now 26, is a fixture in Central PA's acoustic scene, peddling lilting, almost jazzy folk songs with Jack Johnson's beach-bum mellowness and Ben Harper's working-man's soul in any and every venue that'll have him.
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Inspired by everyone from Stevie Wonder and Ray Charles to Paul Simon and Sting, Blessing has learned how to infuse his songs with a swing and shuffle, but in a way that won't cause too many ripples in the pool.
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While the impetus for writing songs came about while Blessing was waiting tables, the melodic and lyrical ideas for many of his songs developed while he was slogging it out scrubbing toilets as a nighttime janitor.

"To help pass the time, I would write songs.I would be singing and vacuuming.Plus, the acoustics are great in most bathrooms," he says.