tonight we bring you footage from our live blue monday sessions at eighty eight keys in seattle west mackie and blue fifty five plus we bring you the latest blues news and listen to this real music for real people blues a new t your connection to blues in the pacific northwest n p r with the winner of over twenty seven blues awards and still singing the blues marley walker it feels like there should be a button on the computer where you push wail and she'd be right there right there she called herself a female johnny guitar watson i was thinking about that and you know it just doesn't even do it she was so i mean if you there is basically to the very end a mess but an incredible organic mess and they finally figured out that life comes from chaos well that's where life has been given birth a number of times in carney or in studio we got through the good nose news is we've got the snow in the freezing rain and the ice in the milton and all that stuff so we're past all of that and we are 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years freedom projects eleventh anniversary party starts at four pm sunday february nineteenth at eighty eight keys on the second in jackson featuring the powerful vocals of seattle's own elena jordan with the great jimmy holden on the hammond organ next up and you best hold on to your hats is a ron jones in the way seattle's hottest new young blues ban with a higher z show you will not want to miss also special guest speakers dance spoken word a silent auction and more that is sunday february nineteenth at four pm hope to see you there that is sunday february nineteenth at four pm hope to see you there another beautiful set of music here on a monday night yes it is it's a blues to do session with the one and only wes mackie ladies and gentleman and john all over featured on drums yes let's hear some applause for this  to travel the world yes and yes so for those of you don't know his history grew up in rural south carolina learned from seasoned old players this is the phrase used in his bio and i got to ask you who these and season like good food home yeah well in this music kind of does that seasoning on your soul doesn't it yes yes so fifty years as a professional close to fifty years as a professional musician congratulations on that that's a big marker thank you and in your bio it also says you're eight and honored citizen in provo most friends and i say that right yes yes for us yes it's the only language i know a little bit of on this side living in vancouver b c now so in canada but in the middle there you moved to augusta georgia yes your first gig was fifty cents and a chicken sandwich now it's just a chicken sandwich  does do that to people you really do capture the audience and get him rolling with you rhythmically and also musically and the message is the original music yes you know the most muslims are they about blues that's right you know yes you know some people think that blues is all sad the blues not all sad some spirit up a man like that yes you got somebody else out there going telling your story and you're saying yeah me too and that's when you spirits are lifted you know what is that a trouble have i mean a toll shared is a trouble have that's the line i'm looking for you don't think you did my story and he's happy yeah i'm happy when i do you find that that's universal in the whole world i mean you've been to russia malaysia hong kong ice land iceland or everybody is everybody the same worldwide i mean when it comes down to it yes everybody the same you know their leg to feel they want to feel he do want to feel you translates doesn't it yes it's amazing how music does that to people yes it does now you know a beautiful guitar tell me about this is there a story behind this gibson of yours well no actually no no no story  description your definition i mean it's part of your defining who you are so you really have to pick your own tone you have to define your takes a long time to get it had to happen you know you know it it doesn't happen overnight when the go ahead you know i just  do it that's a that's a lot of multitasking to have four limbs working at once two hands and two feet but you know i find that to give me my own personal sound because i bet because play with your own bass line sometimes be playing you know and i feel do this all over the world and i go up i play a bigger bands you know i don't travel and i still do to base my most of time sometimes i just don't play bass on my front you know doing a front man thing pretending i'm b b king and you bet everybody wants to pretend  and then mr blues oh yes well miss a blue did very well too and then you followed it with a third cd beyond words which includes eight originals yes tell me about that recent cd beyond words why did you call it that well beyond words is my story when i'm from the southern states is that i my grandmother she was cherokee and my grandfather was just at the end of slavery so they all so i got a young lady she's a first nation santa scofield and so she's sing it with me i did the blues part on a guitar you know and  it makes it makes makes you know like the two cultures yes well there's some there's some great songs that you did force of the set tonight i wanted to ask you about go back to my little blue shack you have a little blue shack somewhere well listen it's a little place was born in went back there about six years ago six seven years ago they would only six of us yeah i hate to say it but i gotta tell the truth first time in forty years i went back to south carolina and i got invited back for a blues festival living in them and i mean was that i mean was it was still there and the fishing club house still there did i help my father built little things on it and i went back on the riverbank on a dock and i and i felt at peace a bit like my life i went full tilt and went back to where i came from and i was happy because someone told me but i'm not dismiss not just as a good thing to say i'm not such a good thing but as a west you know you came home back home like a year old and you can still read about it yeah yeah you can still read about it yeah well put it well and yeah that had to be an interesting feeling sometimes people come back home and it's completely different it's been developed there's no mountain where there used to be a mountain and whatever you know it just changes but it sounds like it was really just left it left it was just sad you know that the community was you know well  where you meet all of the smoke all right well beyond words it's great to have you here wes i know we got one performance before but i didn't get the interview so i was looking forward to having a conversation with you you know so if you look at the video go to see the real our each city reel in a song is called passing me by you know i hate to say it but you know because i mean it but i can't tell a lie it is a good video  rentis jam session kicking in after that so one more 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