to do t v was sponsored by the new orleans creole restaurant in seattle's historic pioneer square featuring live jazz and blues six nights a week you can see more at triple w new orleans creole restaurant dot com or you zero six sixteen that's garden house country blues club ser many influences that we would like to incorporate in our music we are trying make sure that we have that blues iraq under tone with r and b and we like to have like some of our hip beats have that hip hop edge crowd you know people that love classic music when we put our own spin to it to make it modern so tell me about your song inspirations who inspires you musically musically i would say all of makes more current people beyond say so a lot of different people well and let's talk about arrangements because your ranges are very unique i mean we've heard the songs before and many times over even but you took and b also and then we wanted to kind of end it with the rock which still keeps all of the out of the blues to rock all that so ties in together the way the player music and you're going to reach a big audience with all that in their descriptions in their home yes definitely that's our plan when you have a lot of louisiana roots in there tell me about your louisiana roots well my family's from louisiana most of my family i was born here in seattle and so my mom  was in here down and so we wanted to definitely make sure that we gave her a shout out from our louisiana roots and yeah winfield louisiana small town but definitely on the map become even bigger when i hear a little bit of marching band and i read that in the bio you got marching band from kendrick's here on the drums is that part of louisiana roots you talk about well i would say it's just something he did you know in his younger younger years that actually it was here in seattle that he did i mean yeah i can hear the march i can hear the march so tell me about your roots are you are you do you feel the louisiana roots in your music or is it more of a marching band thing for you probably a little bit of both i'm actually from louisiana and i actually lived down there for a couple of years so i do have a little bit of culture in me but heavily influenced by seattle so you like the hendrix stuff i love great music all of it you know song let's talk about arrangements because you know that's the difference that you're that you're bringing i mean who is involved in that  the four piece here and i would say everybody we all try and make sure that we all equally have the same say and what we do to make sure that for one we give that originality and then for two that everyone fills like we're a solid unit and that's what we're trying to make sure that everybody gets to contribute ok josh so you're new in the band i'm going to ask you a quick when who or what are your some of your influences guitar influences g s everybody influences never really i mean i could hear somebody on the radio and have influenced me but i guess you could say my biggest ones were like jimmy page and i mean like jack why he's great on all the all the kings you know  don't know all the good guitar players that played a lot of emotion and feeling instead of so technical so who bit who bit you first who was a first one that just meant oh wow that blew my mind   like yeah screw it you know let it grow and yeah that's about it ok what do you think of the hair the hair good because it was good all right yeah big hair i almost didn't see his face there for a second so actually  you come with quite a few chops you were in the sea for months recording studio six hours a day that's quite a bit of discipline for a youngster you're a teenager at the time yeah well i mean i was i was got a scholarship to my high school there was a private boarding school and i was went there on a full ride musical scholarship so it was and i'm not really taught at all i'm all self taught but it's just that i was required to do things to keep my scholarship going for the last two years so like proving myself in the studio and going down there for every day for like three or four months that was something that i really wanted to do along with that i had like my responsibility as far as that and performing and learn and whatever they want me to learn so you hoping to do this full time make a living at it it's my dream you're on your way with these guys i would say a big hell yeah originals originals let's talk about originals now  know it's a lot of fun well now talk to me about the original music do you participate in creating the original we actually started with just acoustic guitar and her singing and then kendrick and then we just make little ditties and they turn into songs and we just take it further and make it legitimate music basically so it was a jam band originally almost kind of we could do coffee shops and cafes just by doing little small covers and one night we would immediately be able to play like cafes or coffee shops or whatever and then and then yeah and then we started getting chops like oh we have to play blues or jazz or whatever people what was appropriate for the venue or whatever so yeah the originals are just come out of just hanging out together and just so who are some of your inspirations vocally who do you mean etta james talked about who are some of those other women is it is it intimidating to think about all those women before you know actually i would say it's very exciting because i would love to make a name for myself and for our band and live up to to everyone else that i look  well now your family is very supportive tell me about your relationship with your family in the music definitely i am well actually my family is very musically inclined i got my singing voice from my grandmother she passed away so i never got to meter but i that that's one thing that i got from her which you know i am grateful for that because that's why we're here today and i she can see my brother plays the drums i have other family members who do a lot of different music and in other groups and stuff like that that are trying to make a name for themselves you have music all around you in the family was it expected that you would i would say it wasn't expected but it was just kind of and me like nobody could get me to stop singing just because the one of those to do it well actually i started out in the church plan drum set and did for a while and it's been probably about eight years nine years since i've actually played so i'm kind of shaking off the rust well now it's a lot of people have started in the church do you can you put in words what you learned by playing in the church verse well i mean i can tell you one thing you know when they get going and they get hyped you know a lot of energy a lot of raw energy you know everybody's jumping around everybody's having a good time and i learned how to play out a very fast paced and a very you know what a lot with a lot of energy in a very fast tempo i guess you could say that would be the word i'm looking for and you're kind of thrown into the fire at a church i mean everybody's there they're looking you've got to do you've got to play you've got to come up to the beat you've got to be there right and you've got a player or they'll find somebody that will play you know just like yeah almost cut throat for a church well it's it's all about just having the best you know whenever you're offering your praises up you want to have the best you want to offer the best and so it's not necessarily cutthroat it's just about you know offering the best and you get less support for doing that the church don't get less support a lot of support yeah they'll definitely come pick you up every sunday when i get a man from the crowd on th