all right i want to thank you for tuning into blue roots denver denver's own blues jazz funk and soul television program i was lucky enough to grow up here in denver and see johnny johnson at the jazz works that was just barry's piano player as a young man and  i saw a couple cats playing on the street and i started playing on the street and i got to see all the greats like lionel young and sammy mayfield mr wonderful gordon sins mitchell long lot of influential blues and jazz players that made me want to become a blues player and i played on the street for a long time in you know this program is born of the same pure spirit of open in your guitar case and you know trying to take the music to the people that's what this is all about and you know i don't want to talk too much we have a rex peoples tonight with his band x factor and we've got andrea shop a c's going to open up on the organ and do some singing for us so with no more  yeah thanks so much thank you people still know you're out there watching us on television wherever it's reaching we're still ironing out some wrinkles but it's really important program and we just try to take the music to the people this music saved my life and i remember when i was with ronnie shell us one time we were if you were planned so we were like damn look at this guy you know where no harmonica slouches but we really loved it you  played i always knew you as a harmonica player but you've become such a great organ player and singer and i don't i don't know when you came to the states or whatever that don't really matter but when did you first discover blues music a just the first a music the first blues music that really got my attention when i saw i said earlier i saw johnny johnson that was chuck berry's piano player but it was when the harp player started playing there was a guy god rest his soul that passed away mark bell and he was playing the harmonica and i'd never seen someone play the harp like that you know playing cross harper whatever with the amp and stuff and i was like that really got my attention you know so much so it really is when played so well you know and hopefully sometime we'll have you on and you can play some harp for us i really love that you played man it's beautiful man thank you yeah very impressive thank you yeah so i'm going to talk a little bit if there that started taking some pictures and she was trying to boost my confidence and i remember one time this terrorist seville she had a little recording and i'm like who is that guy and she said that's rex peoples and i was like damn and  years i mean even after coming to colorado before i realized that that is i was a true story that actually happened and it was interesting that i ended up singing blues music i still love gospel i still do gospel but i love into the lives of many many years they're very well they're so connected that's right yes so we're glad to be here and we have my band is rex peoples in x factor sure we were supposed to also mention that i have a regular show am i supposed to do this now oh we have we have a lot of time like we in a rush to jump to anything like you know you have a story and you know i can hear it when you be sitting in i hear the things that are behind that you know and maybe i hear it different than someone else but really i don't but but you have a history in a story you know and sometimes when we talk about stuff sometimes there's something in that you know what i mean then sometimes people can get something from you know and you obviously been through something in your life and you know i'm not trying to make anybody self conscious or not them but it's good to spend some time talking and see if we can get to the the real story of the person you know the story of the music because sometimes there's something in there you know and  think he talks too much i don't think so you know the program blew roots denver like if you go back to the old days the old juke joint era in the places the voters club in the places in five points you know we have a rich history of music that a lot of people nowadays you know a lot of young people they don't know what this town is really about you know and that music has haunted me and drawn me down to the street corner till i can't do it no more but what i'm saying is people like charles burrell you know the jackie princeton of music the first african american man to get a symphony contract and like so many famous people saying in played in l triple dip back in in all them clubs in five points and there's so much history and you know i think a lot of people should know about that you know the history of the music because we can't know where we're going unless we know where we've been and a lot of people they think you know this town is about dance music or it's about this or it's about that and the other thing and those things are great but the real roots of the music in our city you know some of us know what it's really about you know and it's very important to me i'm not i'm no spring chicken no more i think it's important to keep the music alive in like when i was a little kid when i was a little kid i remember playing the clarinet and we had a cool teacher it our elementary school mr phillips and he brought this great jazz trombone player in there one time we were all watching him and i had good band teachers and i'm thankful for that education and for the people i came up seen like sammy mayfield in ed winfield and billy joel and frank terry a lot of people don't know frank terry but he took sammy mayfield on the road when sammy was just a little kid and to me sammy mayfield they were the old guys but you know we're really lucky to have that music here in this town and we're very lucky to have people like you rex really man i mean i think so much of you you know i make a living from playing music and stuff but i wish i could sing more like you man i admire what you do and stuff and i'm not trying to talk too much but we have a lot of time you know we still got more minutes into the music world was i started doing karaoke and i was doing all the karaoke thing i was on the circuit and i was loving it i want a lot of contest and and people got a little frustrated because i want to lot of contest and so i told them i said well listen if you want me to get way back to brendon's and i remember i used to play out in front of there on the street when i was a kid i played out there and i was on the stage with kitty neal shirt on down at brandon's just before they closed the old one and so coming up i was asking me like that he told me i was an honorary caucasian but i've gone through their idea that he's got stories you've got to get in go in and misty here pro we need to use this don't you know i don't know if that you know yeah we need we're trying to do with the x factor is we try to do the real music sure we try to bring back the music that remind you you know that makes the people who like to dance and dance the people who shout shout and those of us  reminisce everybody else reminisces about the time when we used to go the kind of music that i want to do real real music that comes from the heart and that goes back to inspirational and blues and that's what we do i dig and our lives are all involved with it every scar every every every marriage every divorce every last dog slow that's what it's really about is about you know making it happen and keeping it real and being like you i appreciate you being here and starting this thing you look sharp you get to look you know the right to restore and you got the right bend today but i'm glad i got it all right some people go oh and saturday i go out being here and x factor you guys sound great thanks for coming i know it was a long drive we got a lot of love for the blues and for everybody here you want to introduce the band ladies and gentlemen would you please and when i say