blues to do t v is 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 dot new orleans creole restaurant dot com or you can stop by at one one four first avenue south just underneath the rooms for seventy five cents sun the new orleans creole restaurant live jazz and blues six nights a week used to do t v is sponsored by special guest mary flowers on nov sixteenth you can find out more about beacon hills garden house country blues concert series at brown paper tickets face book or at blues to do doc by calling two six three two eight zero six six tune that's garden house country blues club ser with a passionate love song thank you very much when to do it here on a monday evening ladies and gentlemen a great show and kirk carbonell major harwood on the drums a great show thank you very much to travelling up from san diego going to do a gig in port tails in this weekend and a new record out industrial strength really great to have you here course some of your history includes names like ballard charlie musselwhite because he's otis just the way he played the blues nobody i mean i love memphis slim and a little brother my gum or e there's a lot of great great cats that there's just something about spann what brought you to the blues first i mean was there a family member or was it the records of these guys you're talking about that brought you to the blues in the first how i got started playing the blues a couple things when i was a kid my dad never really liked pop music he came home one day and smashed my mom's entire beatles selection course my brother and i had fun wearing the covers as hats but alas we didn't have that anymore so a i didn't grow up on b my dad had a friend who was a piano player and would come over to the house and hang out and and play well who is one of your your young favorite piano players coming up anybody on your radar yeah don't you know oxford don't you know oxford tell me about this well we did this show every year maybe a couple times a year depending it's called the queens of the i started doing them twelve years ago and because i wanted to meet other women who play the piano band her she had her band at her house were gone they were never in the plane as she's just a really tremendous artist i look forward to her whatever her next album is i know it's going to be great what's your coolest connection in the blues that you made that that's the most unforgettable moment of life that man was and how did she have did you guys mean where did she pick you where did she pick me she hired me one night we had known each other for from another band that we played in together and over and we had a couple of drinks oh yeah and it just kind of went from there and it's about two and a half years ago and we've been making music ever since nice and where did you pick up your sticks first words your rhythm come from  i started playing when i was probably about fifteen playing drums i've been playing the clarinet for years and i stayed with that through high school in college and played the drums also and then the clarinet kind of went away after that and so i've been playing drums ever since who are some of your mentors the people that you admire that are great with a stick well buddy rich is probably one of my favorites because i was really into the big band stuff but i love roy haynes and and some of the gr i picked up a lot of that from him it is about math isn't it for those young drummers out there it's about math oh absolutely yeah you you've got to you've got to got to know your math and you've got to know your time signatures and get your tempos right my father's paint store and i used to grab the paint stirrer sticks and beat on paint cans and he said hey we're going to get you some drums so we got me some drop that sounds like a scene in a movie i could see that and i'm going to do a couple more questions you got a couple more and we would love i've never seen a microphone i didn't like right when i start a band with a good drummer and you guys are definitely a dance band so tell me about your beats becky weber started off as a little party band corporate actually more stuff to put those price tags together really so you play the choice rooms like the ninety nine club or oxford or anacortes at the rockfish another great room but you fill up the stage up there yeah and that's part of the fun