STLMU Post 4 - 6/14 to 6/21 features Bud Summers :

Bud Summers enfolds, transcends and reiterates the genres of blues, jazz and rock with masterful guitar performances and smooth, jagged vocals. Bud Summers has been imbued with a musical heritage. His dad played upright bass and had his own eight piece orchestra that performed swing, jazz and pop standards. His mother was a music educator and instilled in her children an appreciation for opera and musicals as well as classics by the masters.

Bud’s formal music education began with violin lessons at the age of five, piano at seven and he gravitated to guitar by age fourteen. He was soon thereafter performing in clubs with his father, accompanying singing at church, and playing gigs at block parties and the like with a rock band.

He earned a B.A. in music performance (classical guitar) from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville and also played in the college jazz band. He performs mostly in the St. Louis area, but has traveled to play in fourteen states as a solo act, and as part of duos, trios and larger combos. He’s been a featured instrumentalist on nine records and has had two of his songs recorded by other artists.

In live shows Bud Summers uses a digital looper on his guitar to enable him to layer multiple guitar lines live as he sings. For percussion he uses his left foot on an over-turned wooden bowl with a tambourine straddling it. To enhance vocal lines he also uses a TC Helicon Voice Tone Harmony G device. His main guitar is a Godin and his PA system is a Fishman Soloamp.

His first full-length solo project "Golden" was released in May of 2008 and he is currently working on another solo project tentatively titled "Big World" which is scheduled to be released in early 2010.

Here is his song,'I Might Fall' from his last release available for FREE download.

02 I Might Fall by BudSummers

STLMU's FREE Mp3's post #3 for the week of 6/7 -6/14 :

Raw Elements sent us this track entitled, 'Shut It Down' :

-Removed from blog on 12/12/10-
*Check them out at the link above.


The next three tracks are from Greg Goldman who is a new transplant to the area. He is looking for a drummer, bassist, and lead guitarist, possibly a keyboardist too. Drummer is the first and most important, of course! One can contact him via email greggoldman (AT) gmail.com
-Replace the (AT) w/ the @ symbol, check him out:

Amazed, Fully Engaged & Heathaze by Greg Goldman
were removed on 1/24/11. His website is HERE

Finally, we have a last minute addition for this week, by Major Creativity. Enjoy and artists get to submitting your songs for next week and I'll get them posted!

'Korgoker' by Major Creativity
-Removed on 12/12/10-

Check out his music here: http://soundcloud.com/mike-23

STLMU's Free Mp3's post #2 for the week of May 31st to June 6th :

- STLMU Post 2 was posted from June 1st to June 8th, 2010. -

Bret from Revelation Seven submitted these three tracks from their last release for FREE download :


Invisible Wall by revelationseven

Crazy by revelationseven

Take by revelationseven

One of the two Marek brothers submitted these two tracks by
The Vertigo Swirl :

'Jeremy's First Flight' &
'The Megalith' by Vertigo Swirl
-Removed from blog on 12/12/10-

Submitted by one of the Marek brothers in the band 'The Vertigo Swirl'. Improvised by "Manik" Myk Thompson (bass guitar, lead guitar) and Brian Andrew Marek (drums, RMI Electra-Piano, tambourine)

Download this track from their site here: The Vertigo Swirl

STLMU's FREE Mp3's post #1 for the week of 05/24-05/30 of 2010

*Jeff from Science Hill offered a FREE private download of 'We Could Be Swinging':(Mp3's available on his site now.)

-Removed from blog on 11/12/10-

*Tom from Post Nuclear Trash offers up three of his 100+ free mp3's here: (Mp3's available on his site now.)

-Removed from blog on 11/12/10-

*Dave from Resoldered offers up a FREE download, as well, here:

Not Impossible by Resoldered by Resoldered

Tutorial Video On How To Use The Sound Cloud Drop Box:

The DropBox from SoundCloud on Vimeo.

Welcome to the Saint Louis Musician's Unite Music Blog!

The goal of this music blog is promote the Saint Louis Metro area's original music scene by providing FREE downloads every week. Become a friend on Facebook, if you are not already, for the areas upcoming shows. With all that being said, welcome! We are looking for our first entries, music can be from any genre, we just ask that it is an original work and be submitted by a member of your music group. The guidelines for submitting are on the right of this blog page. Also, here is a helpful guide if you plan to submit yours via email and it is as follows: Creating Mp3's

That is pretty much it. Chris Sebastian from the group 'Lake 32' runs the Facebook page and reposts events in the STL area, this blog was an idea of Chris Davis from 'Ockum's Razor'. We plan to add some additional music bloggers to this and will provide a seperate page for each column and divide them up into genres that they have a passion for. So, get to submitting and look for the first blog post of FREE music by some of your favorite STL artists on Monday, May 24th!