good evening ladies and gentlemen here we are and into cola at the spar tavern which is notably the hostess bar and tacoma and tonight here on sunday night they do blues music that's right blues music live music every sunday night and saturday night they do classic rock n roll well we're going to go inside here today and we're going to check this thing out we're going to check out the food and check out the beer on tap we're going to check out the band the the blues buskers like you know when you sing for your chips kind of an old term that they thought was pretty good they like kind of like a cat singing on the street kind of the same thing they they have a big band normally they play and so they've got a small ensemble that allows them to play some of these montana a little bit later in the summer on the california again in summer is probably better than the winter of it yes here we were there in january got flown away it was crazy to have to drive and then we got the right week and it was there was not nearly any snow on t to memphis is part of their representatives for their national lucian's right right so it was just an opportunity to actually showcase and help other artists me area and you did help other artist and this year that went to memphis yeah oh you know who went to memphis again this year get out there and there's a lot of stuff available player craft is one of the people aces and one of the few john roos being the blues right we're a club membership club will show up to your game you know i mean that just you know that that really doesn't happen in a lot of other  it's as power is cabernet and you guys come here often usually every sunday night for the blues i was my next question i mean i hear there's a lot of regulars in this bar and they're coming down and for the music so you guys are coming here particularly for the music and the blues sunday night that's very correct now there's a lot of acts of player there are blues there's any band here that you recall fondly of c c james who is now living in nashville i just successfully completed a european  my god i've been kind of reading her blocks to what she's as sound like she's doing very well down there so that's a good thing so once again local musician starts out here at the spar tavern and makes it my we we've been all this group here we've been you know not everybody goes in memphis but that was with the washing up to society it was for the blues foundation for the international blues competition was really really really amazingly fun really really well i got to ask you i mean a lot of us dream of going to tennessee or somewhere bar five thirty in the morning after we won and we kept the cup winning the cup went in for graduating and so we finally got to the finals i was pretty much celebrating the rules about five thirty in the morning we ordered like ribs and beer at five thirty in the morning was absolutely and legally legally wow very very but really the one of the highlights the highlight probably playing the orpheum theater was absolutely amazing it was going downstairs and looking at the wall and seeing all the it's like a paramount and that inspired you oh just that you share the same yeah present day age and so forth and the the talent level when you first arrived there everybody already had to go through all the competitions that we went through a lot of screening  much like a competition like it is very much a problem but you really really have to you've got twenty minutes to play two minutes to get your stuff on just a few minutes to get off your doctor everything so to get through it for i'm very very happy and very proud but it was an impressive number eighteen countries in together and then we wound up it was very very i mean blues guys from israel india poland faith all over the place playing the blues yeah india israel absolutely and doing a good  last awesome i mean we were all rooting for you very proud here about that we can you tell me here we are at the end of the night here this is the second night of the creation of the blues busters it is and how you feeling your i mean i know they want to have you a lot of gigs but how  role here i feel i certainly fun to do to get out of my box when you do something for so many years of only doing original music which i always play you because you have a tendency to get into it do it by rote and i rather and i need to