these all three of these gentlemen have quite a history in seattle music some of them i do a little interview here before we get into our jam session did you like that the rusty williams bad it is the return of the rest the williams band you lik questions for you rusty williams everybody everybody for some pleasure here alive and well well ok and you have quite a history i've been reading about you you played with dick powell in a group called back ball that is true with f started playing the piano and then this hendrix guy showed up and change your life out of bob and everybody else had their life changed by him too you were also in a group called big horn i was in a band called me that was pretty big that was a pretty big group you know about the johnny jazz knows everything popular back in the day yes even got the label you signed with a label with that group i was out of the behind by then ok that's ok it works that way now but yeah a little known fact is well his mom janet actually got the west seattle bridge built sed to love to take a bath and he was you so relax i mean seriously he would go i got to take my bath first before i do anything and so he would go do listening into that and he'd be in there for an hour and a half and  would be ready to go but he will all the other thing is he would play the longest running shuffles i've ever played in my life i'm an energetic drummer especially back in those days i was really young and he would tire me out i mean we do thirty five minute so rusty people ask and do you have an album out is there one in the works all these songs that you heard tonight are part of what we're trying to put together right now and these are mostly rich all rituals pretty much except we all suffer the j c rico song and want to know what's behind that ok that's what i want the story oh you know i write about people and places more than i write love songs really you know there's plenty of love songs and i like the lyrics to be interesting and maybe tell a story so comes from not in the groove tell me some of your favorite players that inspired you to be that songwriter you just described songwriting well you know the greatest songwriters i can think of a minute mccartney and probably bob dylan you know if you were really talking about great songwriting i don't plan to i don't claim to be nearly in their ballpark but you know they show me what good songwriting is and so there are standards that i kind of can stand up to the yeah ok how about guitar players jimi jimi and then a lot of guys too i mean you know all the great you know guitar gods of the sixty's and seventy's i'm sure you know we all grew up with him clapton and really like jeff beck big jeff beck guy and he's tremendous he's like no other musician he's he's he's from another well and pushing the envelope and taken the blues to another level i mean he's got blues in there somewhere he's a blues guy he really is he's just as complete you know he's just completely different so musical that it gets into the jazz realms too i got to say though at my very roots it's always the blues it really is i love what you do which you have herzog two of you as a duo is a magic one of my favorite memories of the portland waterfront blues festival was seeing this guy and jeff jason it was about the night teen floor of the after party oh my goodness a tour up we tore up that room they tore it up but that was a fun night and magical experience so thanks for bringing what you bring to the scene rusty williams everybody the rest of williams ban grew up in chicago and played with the fifty seven for most of your musical career as a trio you know it well i've been a band since i was sixteen and i'm kind of old now so that's you know that's a long time but back in the ninety's and in the two thousands i was in a band