Nick
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| Gender | Male |
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| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Musician,Bass, Guitar, Tutor, |
| Location | Houston, TX, United States |
| Introduction | Nick Gaitan is a bassist, bandleader, and songwriter from Houston,TX. His songs show influence coming from the Gulf Coast region and rhythms. His music always keeps one foot in the roots. Nick plays bass in Billy Joe Shaver's band. Shaver, a Country Music legend and Hall of Famer recorded a cut of Gaitan's called, "I've Found My Weakness in You." Gaitan has won numerous awards from "Best Bassist" to "Local Musician of the Year" in Local Houston Rag , The Houston Press. |
| Interests | Houston, TX , Texas music, Bass, upright bass, jazz, gulf coast music, swamp pop, billy joe shaver, m. ward, smokey robinson, fela kuti, billy bragg, the octanes, los skarnales, the umbrella man,the octanes, Cookie & The Cupcakes, Los Lobos, Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez, Jose Alfredo Jimenez,Billy Joe Shaver, Willie Nelson, Mickey Raphael, Alan Lomax, Willie Dixon, Sigman Byrd, Buffalo Bayou, Bats, Murcielagos, |
| Favorite music | The Blues, Swamp Pop, Jazz, Conjunto,Rhythm and Blues, Zydeco, Afro-Cuban, Reggae, and Ska, Zydeco, Cumbia |
| Favorite books | On The Road by Jack Kerouac, Sig Byrd's Houston,Down in Houston, Houston:Land of the Big Rich, Howl and Other Poems by Allen Ginsberg, Deep in a Dream, the long Night of Chet Baker |