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I grew up in a poor industrial city in New Jersey, listening to album-oriented radio out of New York City. I remember listening to Led Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused in the back of my mom's Buick and being completely amazed, as if my young mind was on fire. Wasn't too long before I could understand the conversations that musicians were having with their instruments. I learned guitar and keys when I was a kid, and guitar has become my main instrument.
I love the blues in all forms, Delta, Chicago, Texas, Piedmont, and blues rock of course! I feel very fortunate to live in Kansas City where a lot of world-class musicians live and come here to play. I busk in real life at the farmers markets, bookstores, and various festivals around town.
I live in Missouri, a state in the US which has a really weird health care system. We’re not covered by “Obamacare†unless you want to pay beaucoup bucks, and if you make too much money, you’re not covered by Medicare, which is the health care program for poor folks. So 300,000 Missourians, many self-employed in some way, fall into that large gap and I’m one of them.
We are lucky to have organizations in town which support musicians, and they put on this free mammogram clinic. I am actually over 50 years old, and I decided I should do this. So I signed up, went down to the mammo-bus right on time. When I was checking in, the clerk asked me who was my primary care physician. I told him I didn’t have one, I just went to the free clinic when I needed to. He said they wouldn’t be able to do the (free) mammogram unless I had a primary care physician. ????? This was pretty upsetting to say the least. That’s where my song “Musician’s Health Care Blues†came from.
There are so many. Just so you know - every musician messes up.
I currently have four guitars: a 2006 made-in-Mexico Fender Stratocaster, a Fender electro-acoustic (which I will probably sell), a beater Fender acoustic which I just love its sound and it only cost me a hundred bucks at a garage sale, and a new-to-me Teisco “Decca†hollowbody which is at least as old as I am. The Decca is my slide guitar and she’s gorgeous. I have a little bit more work to do on her before I play her in public.
