too fast or there's just a little bit too much for you you can always check it triple w w's to do dot com yes we're in some place in the u district and even know there's so much blues happening everywhere we just stopped on the side of the street decided to start doing our five minutes well or so it is a busy time of year for a calendar and i'm about to get into it and we're going to some great footage tonight from both steve cooley in the dangerfield's and the ron handy band both excellent bands in the scene doing a blue state and they've both been doing it for  years they're both veterans of the scene so yeah both lead in their own bands these day they've been playing with other people both of them for years and they finally do their own thing anyway our calendar for tonight june first starts off with the edmonds waterfront blues festival a band we're going to have on the show in mid july machelp taylor and the blues junkies i just love that they also play at norm's place in everett that is the same evening chill june first it is the first of june also kim fields heart blast featuring hank sheree and grant dermody at the highway and i lose club tonight jess alley has shemekia copeland through sunday oh we have great choices here in seattle jazz bones in tacoma has the randy oxford band tonight that james is up at the ferndale joint called the main street bar and grill with the bad dog blues band and a cooking friends may got way more than that going on just tonight let me just look at a few highlights for this week lloyd jones has a new c the cd party for seattle is at highway nine and blues club saturday june second look for the central avenue pub in kant to have randy hanson with terry hank terry hank on saxophone he just won the blues award the blues music award in memphis in may for best saxophone so great saxophone with randy hanson again at the central avenue pub in kent on june third look out our guest on monday june fourth at eighty eight keys is going to be the vicky stevens preston miller blues project brand new stuff she's out of portland she moved up here for love you know it's a good thing when someone moves up to seattle for love home the music is going to be good so the stevens miller blues project brand new stuff june fourth on our eighty eight keys monday night blue monday we follow that with a jam session and you're always welcome is a music friendly place the bluegrass is going to start in the background here in a second the run heavy band who is on the show tonight will be at the central saloon friday june eighth look for the stax brothers and some more soul music at the columbia city theater on that date and also the cruise hammond band petri danny heifer and the thirteenth street whore in terms sorry danny hope band they're going to be on our show to come in july looks like highway nine i was co host them on june eighth danny hope for and the thirteenth street horns are joining them that looks like fun also look for dan  the triple door we got stevie ray guns on our monday night show june eleventh and love a smith and her red hot skillet lickers going to be two nights a jazz alley the twelfth and the thirteenth look for francine reed to star in gangsters of love through not a whole lot more anyway dyad sure jazz sally in june into july we start cooking with grease it is going to be heavy i'm not going to get to it it's too heavy all right july looks good people looks real good and you can always check it and triple to lose to dot com i thought you enjoyed the footage tonight is ron handy been and steve cooley in the dangerfield's too great as a said veterans in the scene and really enjoy having you here real music for real people through the arch darkness to light tell me about that title to the arches like the third step in recovery program and it's kind of like you know going from the dark side of my life to kearney should be able to help you earn some of that great guitar player from this guy who's been around for years thank you for coming on the show that microphone so this when i hear yes talk about your gear your head this is kind of special this was well and to sing and play the same time is not an easy thing how did you put those two together and when did you first put them together you know it's been many years back in the eighty's i decided i wanted to try to it's just a matter of feeling and synchronization you know you you do one and then you somewhere so what was a music growing up in your family like i mean did you have music on turntables or on the radio or was it live in your home oh yeah my dad was a musician a singer and a guitar player and you know it was a lot of cowboy music a lot of actually he tried to talk me out of it i bugged the crap out of him to rent me a bass i'm going to probably worked on him for about six eight months and then once we did that we had it for six months and he bought me a  mojo to share here and mr matt williams i know you're sick but you play through your sick don't you  kevin young also michael down howard put hours into editing and yes lots of late hours on the editing also day page age because we would not have good t v if we didn't have good good so great said he's an audio master i also want to give a shout out to all of our crew here dino and bobby and justin and scott and i think michael left already but big love to everybody here he's doing the dooley pm thing every weekend and we will have a memorial for our buddy carrie smith on the twelfth it looks like it'll line up on the twelve february coming right up that would be my mom's eightieth birthday to have a double one that day yeah i'm very lucky brad and i played with her on the police cruiser she does a piano bar i go in and jam weather overnight and we became pretty good friends on a blues cruise so after getting to know quite a bit about blues do t v is sponsored by eighty eight keys and second in jackson presenting blues do live sessions every monday this monday june fourth we feature the vicky stevens preston miller project the stevens miller blues my baby day valley music where we all had some really heavy players work there and they had a little turntable that you you know had a bunch of turntables you could listen to forty five's on and i was listening to dick dale in the deltona school you know started out as a teacher school so there's like a disproportionate amount of women there right and like here's freddie king when he played he played there about five times and he any he would always have is like double knit suit on you know leisure suit and all of these little chicks you know he'd pull them all up on stage and i'm always thinking i wonder if their daddy knew that the texas cannonball was going to be here you know this is really where to put in a big fellow i mean he made the guitar look like a toy huge he always had it on had the strap on one side over here on this he's a great guy so now you studied him and was there any anybody else jumped out like that and yeah albert was my biggest influence i mean and then i always like mike bloomfield but you know nobody could ever play well it was funny like we got with our set and he comes up and he goes you play good blues for a white guy you know any in like his hand it was my hand was like a little baby's hand because hand over shook and he goes can i buy you a drink of course you can it's like having god buy you dream right so i went over and i sit down and he goes in somebody is going to kill me for this but i don't care and he goes the only thing he said was i'm old and i'm tired and i'm going to kill this bitch playing trumpet if it's the last thing i ever did that's all he nice studio and when we wrote a song and in like we spent all night writing this song and back then we used to partake of various things and and we're just getting more and more stupid as and i went on and you know every time we come up with a line we hug each other and cry you know that and then the next day i go hey man do you remember that tune and we're in the studio so none of it got taped and like he goes i don't all i remember was the first line it was i cried when muddy died and it's all you know one of us ever remembered that sounds like it would have been a good son but he got his green back and so did i sort of anyway so  know and got a present you know his presence is like bigger than all outdoors and comes in and and i got up on stage and we just became good friends in and started sittin in with him every once in awhile and then i moved down to back down to california for other knows who the bass player is nobody ever knows so now did you have a musical family growing up was there some that brought you to music yeah actually the story is when i was twelve years old my aunt took me to see herman's hermits at the at the cost here in seattle and it was about a month before monterey and the last band that came on before herman's hermits was actually the who saw and she we had front row tickets and i and i the who got done playing and i turn to my and i said we can go now we've seen the real band and that's what got me years like the same stuff no actually not been we're playing classic rock so we're brought you to the blues i've always i've always loved the blues even when i was young that's what i was drawn to i was listening to johnny winter and all those guys back in the early seventy's you know all my friends are gone who are all these guys so how do you study these days do you study other players or how do you practice your licks i just if i hear something i like i go home and see if i can play it so now what was your first influence keyboard way well i think i said this last time i was here i'm like a diehard take floyd fan and  so richard wright was their keyboard player and he was my main influence when i was learning keyboards rest in peace richard what's your favorite court favorite no i didn't ask you that before which favorite co we are gathered here going to church yeah the one we played at the old waldorf in san francisco yeah i had bought of the size of refrigerators next to me so make any musician i can really have monitors the size tell us the band's james brown's you know drummers that really changed a lot for me you know in the early ninety's you know picking up the start time box set that was that was mind blowing but i mean various so many go back to like jeff caro toto and you know studio musician and extraordinary on the west coast oh yeah steve gadd groove master but you know just trying to lock it in and just support the music you know you know is this i mean yeah as blues funk can you make this full time is a full time for you still i still work about ten to fifteen hours a week in a restaurant so and the freddie king right there send email to the calendar at blues to do dot com blues do monthly is available by subscription or you can see some of it at blues do dot com blues to t v 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