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THE LATEST CD: "SHE'S GOT SOUL"...CLICK HERE TO ORDER! 14 original cuts full of groove!DALLAS BLUES: In 1997 I moved to Dallas and jumped right into the blues jam scene. Man, things were really hopping then! Hash Brown's jam at the Bone on Tuesdays was still running really strong at the time and in my opinion you could hear some of the finest off-the-cuff, skin-of yer-neck blues playing anywhere in the metroplex when the magic was right. I still had a lot to learn about blues and I soaked it in like a sponge. Every week was like a new lesson. ------------------------------------------- PUTTING THE PIECES TOGETHER: After a couple of years of playing in some other people's bands I started doing gigs of my own and trying to put together all the pieces and fragments into a style or at least a sense of identity about the music I wanted to play. I really love the old masters and think it's very important to try to keep the spirit of their music alive. I don't always PLAY too much like a traditionalist cos I'm still a brash rock n roller at heart but I try to at least THINK like a traditionalist. I've been lucky enough to share the stage with many Texas blues personalities such as Hash Brown, Holland K. Smith, Sam Myers, Nick Curran, Blue Lisa, Kim Davis, Miss Marcy, Chris Ruest, Kathy Prather, Marvin Seals, Johnny Moeller, Pops Carter, Robin Banks, Ray Davis, Bobby Walker, Chris Zalez, Bill Johnston, Texas Johnny Boy, Mitch Palmer, Kerrie Lepai, and Debie Babcock. I always tell people, I got my music degree in college but my real education started when I came to Dallas.----WE CAN'T HELP IT! IT'S A SICKNESS: Blues is not the most popular music to play. Lots of times people just want to hear something from the radio. I can understand that. It's not that people like myself don't like other kinds of music...it's just that we're compelled to play blues! We can't help it; it's really a sickness. A sickness we do not want to be cured of. There is a bigger picture that we all fit in to. As more of the world renowned old time honored blues masters pass on from this world they leave gaping holes that no one will ever fill. There are great young players coming up but they do their thing closer to the ground and will probably never become really famous cos big labels won't usually sign it and lots of clubs won't book it. That's not really the point. Blues will be kept alive at the street level, in the trenches, one club date at a time and 12 bars at a time. That's what I hope to spend the rest of my life doing and if I can make some small contribution I will be happy!?! ---------YOU LIKE BLUES EVEN IF YOU DON'T KNOW IT!!! I absolutely believe that everyone likes blues whether they know it or not. Blues is the common foundation for the majority of popular music we all listen to everyday. There would be no rock n roll with out the blues. Or jazz. Or soul. Or R&B. Or any hybrid or offshoot or mutation of ANY of those. That is why is blues needs to be cherished!