Biography

The Kansas City Blues Band was formed back in the ‘70's in the City Of Fountains, the Paris Of The Plains, Possum Trot, you guessed it, Kansas City Missouri. The ensuing thirty-five years saw these young men performing with a roster of heros and grandfathers of the blues. You know the names, John Lee Hooker, Son Seals, Bo Diddley, Albert Collins, Matt "Guitar" Murphy and more, not to mention sharing the bill with legends from B.B. King and Bobby "Blue" Bland to Willie Dixon and Muddy Waters. With such influences, at the time the intent was always to make a true-blue record, something respectful of the grandfathers, yet something that would address the dazzling emotional needs of the band members.

Well, some dreams aren’t deferred. Separately and for individual reasons, Tom, Mike, Rick, and Larry found themselves relocated to Nashville. It started out innocently enough around ‘09, tuesday night jam sessions at O'Neil's studio they called the Sewing Circle and the Possum Shoot. Mike had an old WW II wire recorder and a microphone, which he secretly hid in a potted palm for a handful of those evenings.

This album is some of what occurred during the jams. The blues, unkissed by rock 'n roll, certainly untouched by commercial intent, and played and sung by those young men who had to become grandfathers of the blues to do it the way they’d heard it long ago.