we bring you the latest blues news and the blues to do it through music for real people lose to do t v your connection to blues in the pacific northwest and beyond with the winner of over twenty seven blues aboard and a pretty woman no no no no the moon the all alone in your  and no good so now this is some of the music that you do it is straight up lose some of it is in that rock n roll vein that was sort of seattle sounders i mean that before the grunge thing there was early rock n roll roots that were pretty boozy here in the have you back in the scene really love those pretty high notes you can hear how long you've been a blues fan so when did you first hear about how mean you're might hear oh let me tell you those other northwest bands they stole all of our material build them whalers all them guys we did it first yeah well you know oh yeah know we're way ahead of those too no actually we used to do material by the sonics in sixty five and by the whalers and all those guys you know and love them dearly and the radio was a much different proposition back in those days you could hear all kinds of stuff frank sinatra stonewall jackson ray charles dino martin laurie was the guy stewart who did he's got the whole world by the in his hands i don't know any way this is this a trademark for you yeah i've been known to pull a few pranks silence to use a little quiet in there to get us all on the edge of our seat i get just very plainly very tired of hearing my my cliches and thoughts that i like to hear brian's and other guitar players it is fun to play off other people's energy and i like what silence it's golden i mean if i it's a rare commodity these days for me to get anything like this i'm with silas but i like the dynamic stuff and we have a very capable drummer that's very cute in the sense it's very cute or cute into that stuff i had to go with that one all right so this band have and so we looked him up and drug him kicking and screaming from the bethlehem birmingham which was a birmingham by then steel steel works down west seattle and so we started rehearsing and our friend stuart la capacity for us and steve peterson has graciously taken over the battery section so that's why we came together again because we missed each other we knew each other socially and then we heard our tapes that we made and we thought like the people need us now always a blues band or did you just do that for me right out of the crypt marley i was in the no actually we we started off the usual route by hearing stuff by the british guys i think you know early on and so then that led us to discover other stuff and our friends that i was on with down bano and his in tim his family his dad was he was interested in blues and so we were there were three hang around with the bottle brothers and we heard  here trombone and you also do professional teaching if you or your have a recording studio businesses this is full time for you it's what i really fulltime but still it's still kind of when you know when john invited me to play with these guys love playing with john and you're still you're you play with him with kathy macdonald so you're in the the grew with john already and that this music fit i mean it suits really well to tell me about you well i know about your blues roots but these guys you know go back  you also are professional full time are pretty much chasing like children loans more and more in my profession these days good for you will be chasing with the sticks or with life i try not to now this is a starting this band in one hundred sixty five if they can answer this that to even impressed with maybe they're older now but some young bands on the way up here they mean young known contemporary guys see what's his name gigs yeah we're playing this saturday night at the old triangle irish up at ninety seventh agree with y'all come down all right these guys are going to stir up some more trouble before they're done are right it is fair roots the pharaoh's dot com greg bloom