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The Other Side Of The Tracks
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Harmonica Journey
These guys showed up at show, recorded it, interviewed me, here it is
DERAILED
Wed May 28 - Guest host of the Blues on Tap Jam - Kelly Brother’s Pub - Ft. Lauderdale FL - 7:30pm
June 5 - Blues in the Schools - Deerfield Beach Percy White Public Library - 6:00pm -7:30
Fri June 6 - The Muddy Monarchs - Grumpy Gary’s - Dania Beach FL - 6:30PM
Sat June 7 - Rockabilly Kingss - Conchy Joe’s - Jensen Bch FL - 8:00pm
Sun June 8 - Rockabilly Kingss - Sailor’s Return - Stuart FL - 5:00pm
Thu June 12 - The Muddy Monarchs - Mickey’s Downtown Bistro - LBTS - 6:00PM
Sun June 22 - The first Muddy Monarchs Jamboree - Mickey’s Downtown Bistro - LBTS - 6:00PM
My band highlights
I play in bands as a side person, contributing my colors as paint for the pallet of the band leader(s).
The bands I lead and front combine my vision with the players who join me.
My first band, based in Baltimore’s Fells Point, was Clay and the Mudslingers.
In Los Angeles, The Sundowners prowled Venice Beach, parts of LA and made it to Helsini Finland and Stockholm Sweden. I also played with The Uninvited, Mr. Jones and the Previous with Andras Jones, and the Jesse Loya Band.
In Missouri I was in the finest Blues band I will ever play with, Don Shipps and the Titanic Blues Band and it’s spin-off band, The Pawn Shop with
Norman Jackson.Matt Ward formed a group to do thre of the most trasnsformational, inspirational tours of my life, embedded with the United States Military as par tof their Armed Forces Entertainment program. Sops included Thule Airforce base in Northwest Greenland, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, much of Europe and the Caribean. My first social Drink at nearly every perfomance is to folks in th emilitary after these experiences
TŌST (The other Side of the Tracks), emerged in Missouri, with
Stonewall Jackson and Wayne Smith.In Florida it’s been good. When I arrived I joined Texas Twister with the late great and wonderful Terry Brooks and Marc Robin.
The first band I led was the NattyBōs with very cool and original musicians Mario Lacasse, Dennis Freireich and Bob Ross on drums and Rich Conklin as fill in. This band had the best rehearsals of any I’ve been in. We recorded ”Look Up,” produced by Donald Kasen in 2017. COVID put that group on pause. After the world reopened, we were all in different places. Except for occasional reunions, you’ll have to see us in different combinations.
I’ve been part of Otis Cadillac and the El Dorados featuring the Sublime Seville Sisters for over 10 glorious years. That band is winding up it’s playing days with December shows at Delray Beach’s Arts Garage, and Earl’s Hideaway in Sebastian, and a couple of parties in February.
Otis led me to a few fun tours with the wonderful, vivacious, poetic powerhouse Kat Riggins and he Blues Revival. She is a Seville Sister for Otis and now an international touring and recording sensation. If she’s nearby, see her, tell I sent you there…
Former soldier, Glenn Baker met me as he was putting together his band,
The Glenn Baker Band. He doesn’t do many clubs. He is an advocate for the military, wounded soldiers and freedom, That’s his focus and who his music is dedicated to. I support this.Sometime in early 2023 I met Singer/crooner/Stand-up Bassist Gary Krugel, from Nashville Tennessee (just ask him). He was putting together a Rockabilly Band and asked if I was interested. I love Rockabilly, always thinking that Harmonica was a good fit for this genre but it’s not used often. I played a lot of Rockabilly with Stoney in Missouri.
Now I’m one of the Rockabilly Kings, with Gary Mario Lacasse, playing throughout the Treasure Coast of Florida…Which brings us to today …. after COVID, we were all a little Derailed after that blew throough the country so that’s the name I used - but it isn’t COVID anymore. Winds of change are blowing, new things, old things, here, there and everywhere … a lot like the music I enjoy playing… I like to get dirty, a little Bluesy, a little Muddy, but we also enjoy moving it around, unpredictable, from place to place, flower to weed, and all around, sort of like the inspirational Monarch Butterfly. I figured it was time to take some repsonsibilty for the project too so we have Clay Goldstein and the Muddy Monarchs…. time to fly…