WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.000 Welcome to Blues To Do TV with Marley Walker. 00:04.000 --> 00:09.000 We are live streaming at www.seattlecommunitymedia.org 00:09.000 --> 00:15.000 and podcasting at www.blues2do.com 00:15.000 --> 00:23.000 Tonight we bring you footage from our live Blue Monday sessions at 88 Keys in Seattle from Wes Mackey and Blue 55. 00:23.000 --> 00:27.000 Plus we bring you the latest blues news and blues to do. 00:27.000 --> 00:34.000 The latest real music for real people. Blues To Do TV. Your connection to blues in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. 00:34.000 --> 00:40.000 With a winner of over 27 blues awards and still singing the blues, Marley Walker. 00:44.000 --> 00:49.000 Alright we're live at 88 Keys on a Monday night. Yes that's right we're here every Monday night with a new band. 00:49.000 --> 00:53.000 And tonight we're doing our first five minutes of this week's show here at 88 Keys. 00:53.000 --> 00:59.000 So yes it's been a few weeks we had a couple technical difficulties to get through in this first part of the year. 00:59.000 --> 01:03.000 And it is the year of the dragon so use your power wisely. 01:03.000 --> 01:08.000 We have a couple of deaths, a few deaths actually in the first part of the year. 01:08.000 --> 01:13.000 I had to say a big loss in Etta James. That one hit me harder than I thought it would. 01:13.000 --> 01:19.000 And it feels like there should be a button on the computer where you push whale and she'd be right there. 01:19.000 --> 01:27.000 She called herself the female Johnny Guitar Watson. I was thinking about that and you know that just doesn't even do it. 01:27.000 --> 01:35.000 She was so much bigger than life in terms of the comparison to Johnny Guitar Watson. 01:35.000 --> 01:40.000 But nonetheless the work that she did will go on forever. 01:40.000 --> 01:46.000 The lasting incredible at last security all the stuff with Eddie Cleanhead Vinson at Marley's memory lane. 01:46.000 --> 01:49.000 I played like heck out of that stuff. We're going to miss you Etta. 01:49.000 --> 01:54.000 Also Johnny Otis, great name in blues band leading. 01:54.000 --> 01:59.000 Also brought a number of great players up in his band. Did some radio. 01:59.000 --> 02:03.000 An incredible part of music as well Johnny Otis. 02:03.000 --> 02:06.000 And the same is true about a man that we lost here locally. 02:06.000 --> 02:11.000 Arnie Barton, an incredible figure in Northwest music history recording. 02:11.000 --> 02:15.000 Many many great bands right there in his basement to the very end. 02:15.000 --> 02:19.000 A mess but an incredible organic mess. 02:19.000 --> 02:22.000 And they finally figured out that life comes from chaos. 02:22.000 --> 02:27.000 Well that's where life has been given birth a number of times in Carney Barton's studio. 02:27.000 --> 02:30.000 So going to miss all those folks. 02:30.000 --> 02:36.000 Just today we also found out that we lost the bass player for Lady A and her baby blues phone band. 02:36.000 --> 02:38.000 That's Gary Smith, a dear heart. 02:38.000 --> 02:40.000 So we're going to miss him too. 02:40.000 --> 02:46.000 Sad news to start our show tonight but we got through the good news is we got through the snow 02:46.000 --> 02:49.000 and the freezing rain and the ice and the melting and all that stuff. 02:49.000 --> 02:53.000 So we're past all that and we are a powerful people that's right. 02:53.000 --> 02:58.000 One day dark Wikipedia and Google and made a difference. 02:58.000 --> 03:05.000 One day after the Citizens United protest things were starting to boil up there. 03:05.000 --> 03:08.000 The City Council in Boulder Colorado started things up. 03:08.000 --> 03:11.000 Susan J. Komen took one day before they took that back. 03:11.000 --> 03:14.000 You are more powerful than you realize so keep speaking up. 03:14.000 --> 03:17.000 We are looking forward to the reason of the week for the blues. 03:17.000 --> 03:22.000 This one, March 3rd at Kane Hall 7 p.m. it's a free gathering 03:22.000 --> 03:25.000 and it basically is pulling the health care issue out. 03:25.000 --> 03:30.000 Single payer health care is what we want, what we've said we wanted and they're still resisting. 03:30.000 --> 03:36.000 Anyway Amy Goodman, Quentin Young, Teresa Mosqueda, also a representative Jim Adermott, lots of folks. 03:36.000 --> 03:43.000 It's free for the general public, free parking at Kane Hall and that again March 3rd Saturday 7 p.m. 03:43.000 --> 03:45.000 Get yourself some single payer health care. 03:45.000 --> 03:50.000 Just speak up a little people. You are very powerful. More powerful than you realize. 03:50.000 --> 03:58.000 Alright Mayor McShwin, hey did you know that that hour that the sun sets before the moon comes up 03:58.000 --> 04:05.000 there's that blue hour, the moon comes up there's that blue hour they call it. 04:05.000 --> 04:08.000 That's right it's called the blue hour and I love that time. 04:08.000 --> 04:10.000 No wonder it's my favorite time of year. 04:10.000 --> 04:14.000 Anyway look for the Jack Straugh New Media Gallery to have Jan Novak, 04:14.000 --> 04:21.000 Blue Hour February 10th through March 30th, a showing of his artwork reflecting the blue hour. 04:21.000 --> 04:25.000 Alright enough of my babbling let's get some of that blues to do calendar on. 04:25.000 --> 04:27.000 It's an exciting time of year. 04:27.000 --> 04:30.000 February is when the blossoms start coming out of the ground. 04:30.000 --> 04:34.000 So we know spring is just around the corner no matter what that groundhog says. 04:34.000 --> 04:38.000 Some tower of power this weekend through Sunday at Demetrio's Jazz Hall. 04:38.000 --> 04:42.000 I've got some more news for you too but listen to a track of their new CD, DVD 04:42.000 --> 04:45.000 and we might even have some interview footage who knows coming at you. 04:45.000 --> 04:47.000 It's blues to do TV. 04:47.000 --> 04:50.000 Come on to the night club! 04:50.000 --> 04:52.000 Come on! 04:52.000 --> 04:58.000 Come on! See ya! See ya! 04:58.000 --> 05:03.000 It's Saturday night and I'm just hanging out looking for a place to party. 05:03.000 --> 05:05.000 I show up, jump, take a ride and I get the road. 05:05.000 --> 05:07.000 Close the zone, I'm on place to go. 05:07.000 --> 05:09.000 Down to the night club. 05:09.000 --> 05:13.000 Oh! Where the women be riding, ready everyday. 05:13.000 --> 05:18.000 Where the film on, we go. 05:18.000 --> 05:21.000 Alright more calendar here on the blues to do TV show. 05:21.000 --> 05:23.000 The first five minutes we just got so much to talk about. 05:23.000 --> 05:28.000 February 10th tonight also look for Nathan James over at Highway 99 Blues Club. 05:28.000 --> 05:31.000 At the Sea Monster it's funky to death. 05:31.000 --> 05:34.000 Saturday night look for Grinders having the Mark DeFrain band. 05:34.000 --> 05:37.000 At Highway 99 Karen Lovely comes up from Portland and of course 05:37.000 --> 05:41.000 more Tower of Power who you just saw and heard. 05:41.000 --> 05:45.000 The new room, the Royal Room, yeah it's in Columbia City right in the corner 05:45.000 --> 05:48.000 next to Tutebella about 5000 Rainier Avenue. 05:48.000 --> 05:53.000 They've got a Hammond organ, a grand piano, Steinway and a drum kit 05:53.000 --> 05:55.000 always set up for the musicians. 05:55.000 --> 05:57.000 That's right it's a very music friendly room. 05:57.000 --> 05:59.000 And they got a band called The Meter Mates every Saturday 05:59.000 --> 06:01.000 doing the music of The Meters. 06:01.000 --> 06:06.000 So if you like Norlans music I'm sure that you'll be very very happy there. 06:06.000 --> 06:11.000 Alright this coming Monday Rafael Tranquilino is going to be our guest here at 88 Keys. 06:11.000 --> 06:14.000 That's right a great session every single Monday night with a new band 06:14.000 --> 06:16.000 and the Cody Rentus band going to back him up. 06:16.000 --> 06:19.000 So we're going to have some fun with the Rafael Tranquilino band 06:19.000 --> 06:23.000 and then a jam session with all of them up there. Look out. 06:23.000 --> 06:26.000 Alright next on our blues to do calendar. 06:26.000 --> 06:29.000 Yes it's Mardi Gras coming up so Mardi Gras weekend. 06:29.000 --> 06:31.000 We got some new things happening. 06:31.000 --> 06:33.000 C.D. Woodbury is at the central. 06:33.000 --> 06:38.000 The new room up there in North Seattle, the Micho Can, the Micho Can I believe. 06:38.000 --> 06:41.000 It's a Latin American term I'm still learning. 06:41.000 --> 06:44.000 Anyway the Mark DeFrain band will be up there for Mardi Gras weekend. 06:44.000 --> 06:46.000 It's also Presidents Day weekend so we get a day off. 06:46.000 --> 06:52.000 In Olympia they're having a huge benefit at the Veterans Hall there. 06:52.000 --> 06:56.000 Lots of great music and great bands for a wonderful organization. 06:56.000 --> 06:58.000 I can't think of it right now but they do some great work with kids, 06:58.000 --> 07:02.000 educational stuff. Again Saturday the 18th we're looking at. 07:02.000 --> 07:04.000 And that's also the night for Soul Saturday. 07:04.000 --> 07:08.000 Star Drums and Lady Keys are going to do the Oli Dance Studio in Everett. 07:08.000 --> 07:13.000 Oli's Dance Studio 6 to 9 p.m. kind of recreating that old Alligator Soul feeling with the chef. 07:13.000 --> 07:19.000 Former chef from Alligator Soul and Soul Food delivered fresh and hot from Chef Ryan. 07:19.000 --> 07:22.000 Again Oli's Dance Studio for the 18th. 07:22.000 --> 07:26.000 Ah yes and then we come up to, oh thank you, lovely stuff. 07:26.000 --> 07:29.000 Nice food here at the 18th. I get a salad first. 07:29.000 --> 07:35.000 And a benefit on Sunday the 19th, that's Presidents Day weekend. 07:35.000 --> 07:38.000 We had to postpone it because of the snow but what a blast we're going to have 07:38.000 --> 07:40.000 because we're going to stay up later this time. 07:40.000 --> 07:45.000 And starting about 4 o'clock we'll have Elna Jordan, Jimmy Holden, A'Ron Jones, 07:45.000 --> 07:52.000 and The Way. There's going to be theater, poetry, dance, dynamic speakers all to benefit Freedom Project. 07:52.000 --> 07:56.000 They teach nonviolent communication in prison which is something we could all use. 07:56.000 --> 08:02.000 And that is all ages again Sunday the 19th starting about 4 o'clock I believe. 08:02.000 --> 08:05.000 Alright more on our Blues Studio calendar. 08:05.000 --> 08:10.000 Yes these Swamp Dogs are going to be at the Central for that Tuesday, Fat Tuesday Mardi Gras. 08:10.000 --> 08:12.000 Look for Jeff and the Jet City Flyers. 08:12.000 --> 08:16.000 They're also going to be at the New Orleans Quirrell Restaurant that Friday night and also that Tuesday night. 08:16.000 --> 08:19.000 And then they're going to have another party there on Saturday. 08:19.000 --> 08:25.000 I think if I'm not mistaken it will be Mark Dufresne joins Jeff and the Jet City Flyers. 08:25.000 --> 08:30.000 Anyway they have a dual party going on that evening on Tuesday and also on Saturday. 08:30.000 --> 08:33.000 It's Mardi Gras week, it's going to be fun. 08:33.000 --> 08:38.000 And also look for Lonnie Williams now at the J&M on Wednesdays I believe. 08:38.000 --> 08:42.000 And then on Wednesdays we have a double triangle on Wednesdays has Jeff Haas and many of his friends too. 08:42.000 --> 08:45.000 So great jam sessions joining us on a regular basis. 08:45.000 --> 08:46.000 More Blues to Do calendar. 08:46.000 --> 08:48.000 Oh yes we got a little bit of the Isley Brothers. 08:48.000 --> 08:51.000 This is how I named my publication actually. 08:51.000 --> 08:54.000 Blues to Do came from that work to do song. 08:54.000 --> 08:55.000 You know I'm sure it did. 08:55.000 --> 09:01.000 The Isley Brothers here on Blues to Do calendar with a date on the 25th at the Little Creek Casino in Shelton. 09:01.000 --> 09:08.000 It is more coming at you here on Blues to Do TV. 09:31.000 --> 09:46.000 Alright just a couple more calendar items. 09:46.000 --> 09:48.000 We've got something at the Finney Ridge Lutheran Church. 09:48.000 --> 09:49.000 That should be good. 09:49.000 --> 09:52.000 Orville Johnson, John Miller and Grant Dermody. 09:52.000 --> 09:53.000 They already did one CD together. 09:53.000 --> 09:54.000 This is their second one. 09:54.000 --> 09:55.000 And it's a CD release party. 09:55.000 --> 09:57.000 Something having to do with the pork chop. 09:57.000 --> 10:02.000 Anyway 730 PM Finney Ridge Lutheran Church in Seattle on the 25th. 10:02.000 --> 10:30.000 And here's a sample of their first CD here on Blues to Do TV. 10:30.000 --> 10:53.000 Alright live here in a Monday night. 10:53.000 --> 10:56.000 At 88 Keys enjoying the food. 10:56.000 --> 11:02.000 Just one more break, Dwight Black Cat Carrier and the Road Dog coming through town at the end of February here. 11:02.000 --> 11:08.000 And look where the Swamp Dog is going to be on our show on the 27th right here at 88 Keys on a Monday night. 11:08.000 --> 11:10.000 And I've got more. 11:10.000 --> 11:14.000 In March Leroy Bell and his only friends at the Triple Door for two nights. 11:14.000 --> 11:19.000 Look for Betty LeVette to come through town and Kent for one night. 11:19.000 --> 11:21.000 It's also St. Patty's Day. 11:21.000 --> 11:27.000 Jeffrey Broussard had to reschedule so he's looking at the 21st of March in Kent as well. 11:27.000 --> 11:29.000 And Walla Walla has a guitar festival. 11:29.000 --> 11:30.000 That sounds like a blast. 11:30.000 --> 11:34.000 In March John Namath, Roy Rogers and the Delta Rhythm Kings. 11:34.000 --> 11:35.000 We'll get it all together for you. 11:35.000 --> 11:38.000 You can check it out always at blues2do.com. 11:38.000 --> 11:40.000 Our calendar featured at that website. 11:40.000 --> 11:43.000 Alright we'll see you down the road a piece. 11:43.000 --> 11:49.000 I know I've got more food coming so I better go enjoy the music and our sessions tonight with West Mackey. 11:49.000 --> 11:52.000 And a little bit of Blue 55 coming your way. 11:52.000 --> 11:54.000 It is Blues2Do.TV. Thanks for watching. 11:54.000 --> 11:56.000 Real music for real people. 12:01.000 --> 12:05.000 Blues2Do.TV is sponsored by 88 Keys at Second and Jackson. 12:05.000 --> 12:09.000 Presenting Blues2Do. Live sessions every Monday. 12:09.000 --> 12:15.000 This Monday, February 13th, we feature the Rafael Tranquilino Band. 12:15.000 --> 12:20.000 Followed by our Blue Monday Jam session hosted by the Cody Rentus Band. 12:20.000 --> 12:27.000 You can find more out at blues2do.com or at ilove88keys.com. 12:31.000 --> 12:32.000 That was okay? 12:32.000 --> 12:33.000 Mm-hmm. 12:33.000 --> 12:35.000 Okay that's all I need then. 12:35.000 --> 12:37.000 I need that one. 12:37.000 --> 12:39.000 I'm still saying that right. 12:39.000 --> 12:40.000 Please put your hands together. 12:40.000 --> 12:43.000 They call him static. His name is Mr. Wes Mackey. 12:43.000 --> 12:46.000 Here is a session on a Monday night at 88 Keys. 12:46.000 --> 13:14.000 Alright everybody, hello. 13:16.000 --> 13:25.000 I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home. 13:25.000 --> 13:34.000 Poor boy, long way from home. 13:34.000 --> 13:44.000 Oh Lord, oh Lord, the world can't do me no harm. 13:44.000 --> 13:58.000 I'm a poor boy, I'm a long way from home. 13:58.000 --> 14:15.000 Alright my brother. 14:15.000 --> 14:41.000 Oh yeah. 14:41.000 --> 14:56.000 Baby, I can't take you along. 14:56.000 --> 15:07.000 Baby, I can't take you along. 15:07.000 --> 15:18.000 Oh Lord, oh Lord, you know the world can't do me no harm. 15:18.000 --> 15:46.000 I'm just a poor boy, and I'm a long way from home. 15:46.000 --> 16:00.000 Oh yeah. 16:00.000 --> 16:11.000 I said baby, I can't take you along. 16:11.000 --> 16:21.000 Baby, I can't take you along. 16:21.000 --> 16:31.000 Oh Lord, oh Lord, you know the world can't do me no harm. 16:31.000 --> 17:00.000 I'm just a poor boy, and I'm a long way from home. 17:00.000 --> 17:21.000 Oh yeah. 17:21.000 --> 17:31.000 I said baby, I can't take you along. 17:31.000 --> 17:40.000 Baby, I can't take you along. 17:40.000 --> 17:50.000 Oh Lord, oh Lord, you know the world can't do me no harm. 17:50.000 --> 17:59.000 I'm just a poor boy, Lord, Lord, I'm a long way from home. 17:59.000 --> 18:08.000 I'm just a poor boy, I'm just a poor boy. 18:08.000 --> 18:19.000 Long way from home, a long way from home. 18:19.000 --> 18:38.000 Oh boy, I'm a long, long, long way from home. 18:38.000 --> 18:41.000 All right, everybody. 18:41.000 --> 18:51.000 Thank you. 19:11.000 --> 19:35.000 All right. 19:35.000 --> 19:51.000 For 20 long years, my heart was in chains, serving as time for causing you pain. 19:51.000 --> 20:06.000 I did a crime, and I paid my dues, I sentenced myself for giving you the blues. 20:06.000 --> 20:22.000 I was a prisoner, and the guard at the gate was me. 20:22.000 --> 20:40.000 I was a prisoner, and I owned a lock and key. 20:40.000 --> 20:56.000 The day you forgave me, that's when I set my soul free. 20:56.000 --> 21:12.000 I wouldn't let love inside of myself, because love couldn't live in all of that hell. 21:12.000 --> 21:27.000 But in my defense, please let me mention, Lord knows I had no criminal intention. 21:27.000 --> 21:43.000 I was a prisoner, and the guard at the gate was me. 21:43.000 --> 22:01.000 I was a prisoner, and I owned a lock and key. 22:01.000 --> 22:17.000 The day you forgave me, that's when I set my soul free. 22:17.000 --> 22:41.000 Oh, yeah. 22:41.000 --> 23:03.000 Oh, yeah. 23:03.000 --> 23:13.000 Oh, yeah. 23:33.000 --> 23:50.000 Oh. 23:50.000 --> 24:05.000 I wouldn't let love inside of myself, because love couldn't live in all of that hell. 24:05.000 --> 24:19.000 But in my defense, please let me mention, Lord knows I had no criminal intention. 24:19.000 --> 24:35.000 I was a prisoner, and the guard at the gate was me. 24:35.000 --> 24:52.000 I was a prisoner, and I owned a lock and key. 24:52.000 --> 25:06.000 I could stand up and raise my hand, and swear I'm a liberated man. 25:06.000 --> 25:12.000 All right. 25:12.000 --> 25:22.000 Thank you, little Jim. 25:22.000 --> 25:42.000 One, two, three, four. 25:42.000 --> 25:53.000 Oh, yeah. 25:53.000 --> 25:57.000 All right. 25:57.000 --> 26:07.000 Yeah, when I was a young man, one day my father called me to his side. 26:07.000 --> 26:17.000 He said, son, I want to talk to you, because I've been watching you. 26:17.000 --> 26:25.000 Yeah. 26:25.000 --> 26:34.000 You act like you have all the time in the world to do anything you want to do. 26:34.000 --> 26:38.000 But he said, you know what? 26:38.000 --> 26:41.000 I used to be just like you. 26:41.000 --> 26:44.000 Oh, yeah. 26:44.000 --> 26:48.000 Yes, I used to be just like you. 26:48.000 --> 26:58.000 I once believed that time would stand still. 26:58.000 --> 27:08.000 Now I know that it never will. 27:08.000 --> 27:27.000 For the times he finds everyone, and he lines their faces with all the things they have done. 27:27.000 --> 27:37.000 Lines of hope, lines of fear, lines that say the blues once lived here. 27:37.000 --> 27:42.000 My face is my story, love, pain, and glory. 27:42.000 --> 27:47.000 Read on. 27:47.000 --> 27:57.000 Hand of time, waste for no one. 27:57.000 --> 28:06.000 Just keep counting our days in the sun. 28:06.000 --> 28:26.000 And one day he'll catch up with you and put lies on your face, too. 28:26.000 --> 28:36.000 Lines of hope, lines of fear, lines that say the blues once lived here. 28:36.000 --> 28:41.000 My face is my story, love, pain, and glory. 28:41.000 --> 28:56.000 Read on. 29:11.000 --> 29:33.000 Time marches on without a look. 29:33.000 --> 29:43.000 But he left behind lines to add to our book now. 29:43.000 --> 30:02.000 And before it slips away, you better write your masterpiece today. 30:02.000 --> 30:12.000 Lines of hope, lines of fear, lines that say the blues once lived here. 30:12.000 --> 30:17.000 My face is my story, love, pain, and glory. 30:17.000 --> 30:22.000 Read on. 30:22.000 --> 30:27.000 Your face is your story, love, pain, and glory. 30:27.000 --> 30:31.000 Read on. 30:31.000 --> 30:34.000 I said those lines you can't hide. 30:34.000 --> 30:39.000 Wear them with pride and read on. 30:39.000 --> 30:45.000 Oh, your face is your story, love, pain, and glory. 30:45.000 --> 31:04.000 Read on. 31:04.000 --> 31:32.000 Lines of hope, lines of fear, lines that say the blues once lived here. 31:32.000 --> 31:59.000 In your eyes, I see a part of me haunted. 31:59.000 --> 32:05.000 By the things they have seen. 32:05.000 --> 32:14.000 Running hard out on your own. 32:14.000 --> 32:22.000 Calling these streets your own. 32:22.000 --> 32:30.000 See, son, I was just like you. 32:30.000 --> 32:38.000 I had no one to look up to. 32:38.000 --> 32:47.000 But I always knew about the day. 32:47.000 --> 33:00.000 The day I took the time to say, be a man, boy. 33:00.000 --> 33:04.000 Make a plan, boy. 33:04.000 --> 33:09.000 Do the best you can, boy. 33:09.000 --> 33:17.000 Just be a man. 33:17.000 --> 33:27.000 In your eyes, there's a part of me haunted. 33:27.000 --> 33:31.000 That you'll be like me. 33:31.000 --> 33:39.000 Running hard out on your own. 33:39.000 --> 33:48.000 And living like a rolling stone. 33:48.000 --> 33:52.000 That's time. 33:52.000 --> 33:56.000 Yes, it's time. 33:56.000 --> 34:04.000 It's time we leave the past behind. 34:04.000 --> 34:12.000 Well, it's time to start a new day. 34:12.000 --> 34:25.000 It's time now to stop and say, be a man, boy. 34:25.000 --> 34:29.000 Make a plan, boy. 34:29.000 --> 34:34.000 Do the best you can, boy. 34:34.000 --> 34:56.000 Just be a man. 35:04.000 --> 35:16.000 All right. 35:16.000 --> 35:19.000 Make a plan, boy. 35:19.000 --> 35:24.000 Do the best you can, boy. 35:24.000 --> 35:28.000 Just be a man. 35:28.000 --> 35:33.000 Be a man, boy. 35:33.000 --> 35:36.000 Make a plan, boy. 35:36.000 --> 35:41.000 Do the best you can. 35:41.000 --> 36:04.000 Just be a man. 36:04.000 --> 36:24.000 Be a man, boy. 36:24.000 --> 36:31.000 Make a plan. 36:31.000 --> 36:36.000 Be a man, boy. 36:36.000 --> 36:40.000 Make a plan, boy. 36:40.000 --> 36:43.000 Be a man, boy. 36:43.000 --> 36:49.000 Be a man, boy. 36:49.000 --> 36:54.000 Be a man, boy. 36:54.000 --> 36:56.000 on the Hammond Organ. 36:56.000 --> 36:59.000 Next up, and you best hold on to your hats, 36:59.000 --> 37:01.000 is Aaron Jones and the Way, 37:01.000 --> 37:03.000 Seattle's hottest new young blues band 37:03.000 --> 37:07.000 with a high-energy show you will not want to miss. 37:07.000 --> 37:11.000 Also, special guest speakers, dance, spoken word, 37:11.000 --> 37:13.000 a silent auction and more. 37:13.000 --> 37:16.000 That is... 37:16.000 --> 37:20.000 That is Sunday, February 19th at 4 p.m. 37:20.000 --> 37:24.000 Hope to see you there. 37:32.000 --> 37:35.000 Blues2Do TV is sponsored by Freedom Project, 37:35.000 --> 37:39.000 teaching nonviolent communication in prisons for 11 years. 37:39.000 --> 37:45.000 Freedom Project's 11th anniversary party starts at 4 p.m. Sunday, February 19th 37:45.000 --> 37:48.000 at 88 Keys on 2nd and Jackson. 37:48.000 --> 37:51.000 Featuring the powerful vocals of Seattle's own Elna Jordan 37:51.000 --> 37:54.000 with the great Jimmy Holden. 38:01.000 --> 38:04.000 Blues2Do TV is sponsored by Freedom Project, 38:04.000 --> 38:08.000 teaching nonviolent communication in prisons for 11 years. 38:08.000 --> 38:14.000 Freedom Project's 11th anniversary party starts at 4 p.m. Sunday, February 19th 38:14.000 --> 38:17.000 at 88 Keys on 2nd and Jackson. 38:17.000 --> 38:20.000 Featuring the powerful vocals of Seattle's own Elna Jordan 38:20.000 --> 38:23.000 with the great Jimmy Holden on the Hammond organ. 38:23.000 --> 38:26.000 Next up, and you best hold on to your hats, 38:26.000 --> 38:28.000 is Aaron Jones and the Way, 38:28.000 --> 38:31.000 Seattle's hottest new young blues band 38:31.000 --> 38:34.000 with a high-energy show you will not want to miss. 38:34.000 --> 38:38.000 Also, special guest speakers, dance, spoken word, 38:38.000 --> 38:40.000 a silent auction and more. 38:40.000 --> 38:44.000 That is Sunday, February 19th at 4 p.m. 38:44.000 --> 38:47.000 Hope to see you there. 38:47.000 --> 38:51.000 That is Sunday, February 19th at 4 p.m. 38:51.000 --> 38:54.000 Hope to see you there. 38:59.000 --> 39:02.000 Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Miss Molly. 39:08.000 --> 39:11.000 Another beautiful set of music here on a Monday night. 39:11.000 --> 39:14.000 Yes, it is. It's a blues to-do session with the one and only 39:14.000 --> 39:16.000 Wes Mackey, ladies and gentlemen. 39:16.000 --> 39:18.000 And John Oliver featured on drums. 39:18.000 --> 39:21.000 Yes, let's hear some applause for this duo. 39:21.000 --> 39:23.000 Thank you. 39:23.000 --> 39:25.000 John Oliver with the drumming. 39:25.000 --> 39:27.000 And you two have met before, huh? 39:27.000 --> 39:29.000 There's been some history between you. 39:29.000 --> 39:33.000 So this is not the first time you've gotten John to drum with you, huh? 39:33.000 --> 39:35.000 John played with me. 39:35.000 --> 39:37.000 I want to put that on for you. 39:37.000 --> 39:39.000 I'm going to get you to eat that mic. 39:39.000 --> 39:42.000 Oh, it was at Highway 99 for a minute there. 39:42.000 --> 39:48.000 And then we were in the same building, I mean, 39:48.000 --> 39:50.000 it was a couple years ago. 39:50.000 --> 39:51.000 Oh, fine. 39:51.000 --> 39:56.000 Yes, and then we did the triple door recently. 39:56.000 --> 39:58.000 Oh, great. 39:58.000 --> 40:01.000 And your music does get to take you all over the world, 40:01.000 --> 40:02.000 doesn't it, Mr. Mackey? 40:02.000 --> 40:04.000 Yes, it does. 40:04.000 --> 40:06.000 But you really had to make that happen. 40:06.000 --> 40:09.000 That's been an intention of yours, isn't it? 40:09.000 --> 40:10.000 Yes. 40:10.000 --> 40:11.000 To travel the world. 40:11.000 --> 40:12.000 Yes. 40:12.000 --> 40:13.000 Yes. 40:13.000 --> 40:15.000 So for those of you who don't know his history, 40:15.000 --> 40:17.000 he grew up in rural South Carolina, 40:17.000 --> 40:20.000 learned from seasoned old players. 40:20.000 --> 40:22.000 This is the phrase used in his bio. 40:22.000 --> 40:25.000 And I'm going to ask you who these seasoned old players are 40:25.000 --> 40:27.000 that you're naming. 40:27.000 --> 40:31.000 Well, there were a lot of them, but there were a lot that wasn't known. 40:31.000 --> 40:35.000 But the ones that were known, I played in bands when I was younger. 40:35.000 --> 40:38.000 I played back to Muddy for a minute there, 40:38.000 --> 40:41.000 and John Lee Hooker, and Jimmy Reed. 40:41.000 --> 40:43.000 Then there was Stevie Wonder, we played in a band, 40:43.000 --> 40:45.000 I backed him up a couple of times, a couple of shows. 40:45.000 --> 40:47.000 So you were a youngster about that, huh? 40:47.000 --> 40:48.000 Yes, a youngster back then. 40:48.000 --> 40:51.000 And a bunch of other people, I can't remember the name now. 40:51.000 --> 40:53.000 Seasoned old players, I like that phrase. 40:53.000 --> 40:55.000 Yes, I've been around for a long time, yes. 40:55.000 --> 40:56.000 Seasoned like good food, huh? 40:56.000 --> 40:58.000 Yes. 40:58.000 --> 41:01.000 Well, and this music kind of does that seasoning on your soul, 41:01.000 --> 41:02.000 doesn't it? 41:02.000 --> 41:03.000 Yes, yes, yes. 41:03.000 --> 41:07.000 So 50 years as a professional, close to 50 years as a professional musician. 41:07.000 --> 41:09.000 Congratulations on that, that's a big marker. 41:09.000 --> 41:10.000 Thank you. 41:10.000 --> 41:16.000 And in your bio it also says you're an honored citizen in Provence, France. 41:16.000 --> 41:17.000 Did I say that right? 41:17.000 --> 41:19.000 Yes, yes, Provence, yes. 41:19.000 --> 41:22.000 It's the only language I know a little bit of on this side. 41:22.000 --> 41:24.000 Excuse me, do you want to see me play? 41:24.000 --> 41:26.000 See, he knows more than I do. 41:26.000 --> 41:28.000 You spend a lot of time over there, don't you? 41:28.000 --> 41:30.000 Yes, I play over there quite a bit, Francis. 41:30.000 --> 41:32.000 Like half time, or? 41:32.000 --> 41:35.000 Well, I say I go over there about five, six times a year. 41:35.000 --> 41:37.000 Pretty frequently, yes. 41:37.000 --> 41:41.000 Living in Vancouver, B.C. now, so in Canada. 41:41.000 --> 41:44.000 But in the middle there you moved to Augusta, Georgia. 41:44.000 --> 41:45.000 Yes. 41:45.000 --> 41:48.000 Your first gig was 50 cents and a chicken sandwich. 41:48.000 --> 41:50.000 Now it's just a chicken sandwich, right? 41:50.000 --> 41:55.000 Yeah, no, yeah, just a chicken sandwich. 41:55.000 --> 41:58.000 So you really didn't go to prison, did you? 41:58.000 --> 42:02.000 I mean, that's a common story for a black man in America, unfortunately. 42:02.000 --> 42:05.000 But you're talking about a prison of love in that song, right? 42:05.000 --> 42:08.000 Oh, yes, that's what I'm talking about, a prison of love, yes. 42:08.000 --> 42:11.000 No, it's not that I've been in prison, it's for a song that, 42:11.000 --> 42:15.000 like I kept my soul a prisoner for a long time, 42:15.000 --> 42:18.000 and things happened in my life, and I just, you know, 42:18.000 --> 42:22.000 I was never in prison, but just my heart was locked up some things, 42:22.000 --> 42:27.000 and I finally, but I owned a lock and key, I didn't realize at the time. 42:27.000 --> 42:29.000 Oh, good one, good one. 42:29.000 --> 42:32.000 Well, and your music makes people go, yeah, me too, 42:32.000 --> 42:35.000 and that's when you got them right in the palm of your hand, huh? 42:35.000 --> 42:37.000 Oh, yes, yes, yes. 42:37.000 --> 42:41.000 And your music does do that to people, you really do capture the audience, 42:41.000 --> 42:45.000 and get them rolling with you rhythmically and also musically, 42:45.000 --> 42:48.000 and the messages, your original music. 42:48.000 --> 42:53.000 Yeah, so you know, most of my songs are, they're about life, you know, 42:53.000 --> 42:56.000 and it saved a lot about my life, 42:56.000 --> 42:59.000 because I could only tell my stories, you know, 42:59.000 --> 43:01.000 I take somebody else's song that I could relate to, 43:01.000 --> 43:04.000 and I'll just make it mine. 43:04.000 --> 43:05.000 Well, and you make it upbeat, 43:05.000 --> 43:08.000 which is not always what people perceive as the blues. 43:08.000 --> 43:11.000 That's right, oh yes, you know, some people think that blues is all sad, 43:11.000 --> 43:14.000 but blues is not all sad, some blues lifts your spirit up, you know. 43:14.000 --> 43:15.000 Amen. 43:15.000 --> 43:16.000 I like that, yes. 43:16.000 --> 43:18.000 You got somebody else out there going, telling your story, 43:18.000 --> 43:21.000 and you're saying, yeah, me too, and that's when your spirits are lifted. 43:21.000 --> 43:25.000 What is that, a trouble halved, I mean, a toll shared is a trouble halved? 43:25.000 --> 43:27.000 That's the line I'm looking for. 43:27.000 --> 43:29.000 Yeah, people say, oh, you did my story, and he's happy. 43:29.000 --> 43:31.000 Yeah, I'm happy, man. 43:31.000 --> 43:35.000 Well, now, do you find that that's universal in the whole world? 43:35.000 --> 43:39.000 I mean, you've been to Russia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Iceland, 43:39.000 --> 43:42.000 Iceland, or everybody, is everybody the same worldwide, 43:42.000 --> 43:44.000 I mean, when it comes down to it? 43:44.000 --> 43:47.000 Yes, everybody's the same, you know, they like to, 43:47.000 --> 43:52.000 they can feel, they want to feel, they want to feel you, you know. 43:52.000 --> 43:53.000 Yeah. 43:53.000 --> 43:55.000 You got to get out there, you got to tell a story, 43:55.000 --> 43:57.000 keep it simple, and people go, although they don't, 43:57.000 --> 43:59.000 a lot of people don't understand the language, 43:59.000 --> 44:01.000 but they can feel the feeling. 44:01.000 --> 44:03.000 Yeah, yeah. 44:03.000 --> 44:05.000 You put the expression in there and tell stories, 44:05.000 --> 44:07.000 and they can relate to the stories. 44:07.000 --> 44:08.000 It translates, doesn't it? 44:08.000 --> 44:09.000 Yes, it does. 44:09.000 --> 44:10.000 Yeah. 44:10.000 --> 44:12.000 It's amazing how music does that to people. 44:12.000 --> 44:13.000 Yes, it does. 44:13.000 --> 44:15.000 Now, you have a beautiful guitar. 44:15.000 --> 44:18.000 Tell me about this, is there a story behind this Gibson of yours? 44:18.000 --> 44:20.000 Well, no, actually, no. 44:20.000 --> 44:21.000 No, no story, huh? 44:21.000 --> 44:25.000 Not this one, when I did have my first guitar, 44:25.000 --> 44:30.000 was a Fender Jaguar, and somebody stole it. 44:30.000 --> 44:34.000 Oh, it sounds like a car, something to steal, huh? 44:34.000 --> 44:36.000 Yes, and then after they stole it, I kind of, 44:36.000 --> 44:38.000 I got this one to replace it, 44:38.000 --> 44:40.000 because they had stopped making the Fender Jaguars. 44:40.000 --> 44:43.000 So I got, so, you know, like I had some insurance, 44:43.000 --> 44:45.000 so anyway, I got the Gibson. 44:45.000 --> 44:50.000 But since then, they started making the Fender Jaguars again. 44:50.000 --> 44:52.000 So I bought one, the first one that they made again. 44:52.000 --> 44:54.000 That's the name right there. 44:54.000 --> 44:55.000 Oh, good for you. 44:55.000 --> 44:57.000 You didn't even play it, did you? 44:57.000 --> 44:59.000 Not tonight, I didn't play it tonight. 44:59.000 --> 45:00.000 I know he's angry right now. 45:00.000 --> 45:01.000 Can we show it? 45:01.000 --> 45:02.000 Yeah, play it. 45:02.000 --> 45:05.000 Oh, it's so heavy. 45:05.000 --> 45:07.000 Oh, my goodness, here, show that there. 45:07.000 --> 45:11.000 Yeah, this is the Fender. 45:11.000 --> 45:12.000 Ooh, that is pretty. 45:12.000 --> 45:15.000 This is the one that I take around the world with me when I travel. 45:15.000 --> 45:18.000 This one I use in smaller venues, 45:18.000 --> 45:20.000 but not when I'm doing a concert. 45:20.000 --> 45:22.000 The concert I take this Fender out. 45:22.000 --> 45:23.000 What makes it unique? 45:23.000 --> 45:25.000 What makes the Jaguar unique? 45:25.000 --> 45:26.000 Well, I don't know. 45:26.000 --> 45:29.000 Just the first guitar that I ever owned was a Fender Jaguar. 45:29.000 --> 45:31.000 So yeah, it's a personal history to me. 45:31.000 --> 45:34.000 I like the tone of it, the sound of it, and the whole thing, yes. 45:34.000 --> 45:35.000 It is all about tone. 45:35.000 --> 45:36.000 That was one of my questions. 45:36.000 --> 45:37.000 Yes, yes. 45:37.000 --> 45:38.000 How do you get your tone? 45:38.000 --> 45:41.000 Where did you learn some of the stuff that gives you your tone? 45:41.000 --> 45:45.000 I've played some blues, I've played some jazz, and I've played, 45:45.000 --> 45:50.000 you know, I've copied a bit of West Montgomery, the old jazz player. 45:50.000 --> 45:53.000 I've done him, and I just like his tone. 45:53.000 --> 45:56.000 So I put that tone behind the blues. 45:56.000 --> 46:00.000 Some people think that the blues got to be all just a twang, twang, twang, 46:00.000 --> 46:01.000 but no, it don't have to be that. 46:01.000 --> 46:04.000 It's got to be long to come from your soul. 46:04.000 --> 46:05.000 You're feeling it. 46:05.000 --> 46:07.000 It is the blues. 46:07.000 --> 46:11.000 Well, and your tone is a part of your description, your definition. 46:11.000 --> 46:15.000 I mean, it's part of your defining who you are, 46:15.000 --> 46:17.000 so you really have to pick your own tone. 46:17.000 --> 46:18.000 You have to define. 46:18.000 --> 46:20.000 It takes a long time to get it to happen, you know. 46:20.000 --> 46:22.000 It doesn't happen overnight. 46:22.000 --> 46:24.000 Well, then go ahead. 46:24.000 --> 46:27.000 You know, you've got to experiment with so many things, 46:27.000 --> 46:29.000 then come up with, hey, I like this tone. 46:29.000 --> 46:32.000 Then you hear other people say, oh, I like your tone, man. 46:32.000 --> 46:35.000 Then you see, not bad, you know, just keep doing it, keep doing it. 46:35.000 --> 46:38.000 Then finally you say, yeah, I like it myself. 46:38.000 --> 46:39.000 Then once you start liking it, 46:39.000 --> 46:41.000 it takes a long time to be honest with yourself now. 46:41.000 --> 46:42.000 Sure. 46:42.000 --> 46:43.000 Sure. 46:43.000 --> 46:44.000 You know, a line is several times. 46:44.000 --> 46:47.000 And, you know, but it takes a long time, many years to find your tone. 46:47.000 --> 46:49.000 Finding truth in your music, anyway. 46:49.000 --> 46:50.000 Yes, many years. 46:50.000 --> 46:52.000 So when did you start playing with the foot pedals? 46:52.000 --> 46:53.000 Tell me about that story. 46:53.000 --> 47:01.000 Oh, well, I was doing this about, I don't know, 10, 15 years now. 47:01.000 --> 47:04.000 You know, because a long time ago I started, you know, 47:04.000 --> 47:06.000 after I wasn't playing bands anymore. 47:06.000 --> 47:08.000 I still play in bands, but, you know, 47:08.000 --> 47:12.000 I had to make a living so I had to start playing by myself for a while. 47:12.000 --> 47:16.000 And then, you know, I was watching someone, 47:16.000 --> 47:21.000 I was watching an old video of VHS, you know. 47:21.000 --> 47:24.000 A guy that I never heard about, his name was Jesse Fuller. 47:24.000 --> 47:26.000 Oh, yeah. 47:26.000 --> 47:30.000 And he has a homemade bass pedal, he called it a footadella, you know. 47:30.000 --> 47:31.000 Right, right. 47:31.000 --> 47:33.000 Oh, man, okay, so, you know, that sounded pretty good. 47:33.000 --> 47:36.000 And then I realized that they started making the bass pedals. 47:36.000 --> 47:42.000 So anyway, I bought a pair and there was this, 47:42.000 --> 47:46.000 there was a jazz player I saw that also played, 47:46.000 --> 47:49.000 he came to Vancouver, he was playing some bass pedals. 47:49.000 --> 47:50.000 I liked him. 47:50.000 --> 47:55.000 So anyway, I got him and I just learned how to do it. 47:55.000 --> 47:59.000 That's a lot of multitasking, to have four limbs working at once, 47:59.000 --> 48:01.000 two hands and two feet. 48:01.000 --> 48:04.000 But, you know, I find that it gives me my own personal sound 48:04.000 --> 48:12.000 because playing with your own bass line and your guitar, 48:12.000 --> 48:17.000 it kind of, you know, it kind of, I forget the word, 48:17.000 --> 48:19.000 it just works together. 48:19.000 --> 48:26.000 Sometimes I feel a little, you know, sometimes, 48:26.000 --> 48:36.000 sometimes I'll be playing, you know, and I feel. 48:36.000 --> 48:50.000 You might want to just be playing something. 48:50.000 --> 48:53.000 Just a little accent will make all the difference in the whole thing. 48:53.000 --> 48:55.000 Oh, yeah, a walking bass line or an inverted bass line. 48:55.000 --> 48:59.000 Yeah, you know, just one extra note there that, 48:59.000 --> 49:03.000 working with a real bass player, I mean, 49:03.000 --> 49:06.000 it's like somebody got to read your mind, eh? 49:06.000 --> 49:08.000 But this way I can, I don't know, just. 49:08.000 --> 49:10.000 You know where you're going already. 49:10.000 --> 49:13.000 I'm going and the guitar and the bass line accommodate each other. 49:13.000 --> 49:18.000 Oh, yeah, yeah. 49:18.000 --> 49:24.000 Oh, yeah. 49:24.000 --> 49:29.000 I may want that, and only I could do that if I wanted at the moment. 49:29.000 --> 49:31.000 Makes you light on your feet, too, doesn't it? 49:31.000 --> 49:33.000 Oh, yeah, very light on my feet. 49:33.000 --> 49:34.000 I bet you're a good dancer. 49:34.000 --> 49:35.000 Oh, I don't know. 49:35.000 --> 49:37.000 Something tells me. 49:37.000 --> 49:39.000 But anyway, you know, I love doing this, 49:39.000 --> 49:41.000 and I do this all over the world when I go out. 49:41.000 --> 49:43.000 I play at bigger bands, you know, when I'm traveling. 49:43.000 --> 49:45.000 I still do the bass line most of the time. 49:45.000 --> 49:48.000 Sometimes I just don't play bass on my front, you know, 49:48.000 --> 49:52.000 doing the front man thing, pretending I'm BB King. 49:52.000 --> 49:54.000 You bet. 49:54.000 --> 49:56.000 Everybody wants to pretend they're BB King. 49:56.000 --> 49:57.000 Oh, yeah. 49:57.000 --> 49:58.000 All right, and CDs out. 49:58.000 --> 50:00.000 Second Chance was your first CD. 50:00.000 --> 50:03.000 Topped the charts and got great write-ups in Real Blues 50:03.000 --> 50:05.000 and the Toronto Blues Society. 50:05.000 --> 50:07.000 Oh, yes, it got quite a bit of write-up. 50:07.000 --> 50:10.000 You know, sold quite a few copies online and to a lot of people, yes. 50:10.000 --> 50:12.000 And then Mr. Blues? 50:12.000 --> 50:14.000 Oh, yes, well, Mr. Blues did very well, too. 50:14.000 --> 50:17.000 And then you followed it with the third CD, Beyond Words, 50:17.000 --> 50:19.000 which includes eight originals. 50:19.000 --> 50:20.000 Yes. 50:20.000 --> 50:22.000 Tell me about that recent CD, Beyond Words. 50:22.000 --> 50:24.000 Why did you call it that? 50:24.000 --> 50:30.000 Well, Beyond Words is my story when I'm from the southern states 50:30.000 --> 50:36.000 is that my grandmother, she was Cherokee, 50:36.000 --> 50:39.000 and my grandfather was just at the end of slavery, 50:39.000 --> 50:42.000 so they all got together, you know, 50:42.000 --> 50:47.000 in a reservation type thing in the southern states. 50:47.000 --> 50:51.000 So I decided to write this song called Beyond Words 50:51.000 --> 50:55.000 because I wanted to mix the two cultures. 50:55.000 --> 50:59.000 So I got a young lady. 50:59.000 --> 51:04.000 She's First Nation, Sandy Schofield. 51:04.000 --> 51:06.000 And so she sang it with me. 51:06.000 --> 51:09.000 I did the blues part on the guitar, you know, 51:09.000 --> 51:12.000 and like a slave in the field doing the moon. 51:12.000 --> 51:21.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, yeah. 51:21.000 --> 51:24.000 And then she comes in with a chanting on top of it. 51:24.000 --> 51:29.000 So mix it, mix, mix, you know, like the two cultures. 51:29.000 --> 51:43.000 Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 51:43.000 --> 51:45.000 Then she came in doing her part chanting, you know, 51:45.000 --> 51:47.000 so I can't do that part. 51:47.000 --> 51:49.000 I can hear it. 51:49.000 --> 51:53.000 So it's like our lives without the words, 51:53.000 --> 51:55.000 you know, without words to it, you know. 51:55.000 --> 51:57.000 Yeah, it's all the overtones. 51:57.000 --> 52:00.000 Yes, yes, yes. 52:00.000 --> 52:02.000 Well, there's some great songs that you did for us 52:02.000 --> 52:04.000 in the set tonight. 52:04.000 --> 52:08.000 I wanted to ask you about Go Back to My Little Blues Shack. 52:08.000 --> 52:10.000 Do you have a little blues shack somewhere? 52:10.000 --> 52:14.000 Well, it's a little place where I was born in South Carolina 52:14.000 --> 52:16.000 on the Combahee River. 52:16.000 --> 52:20.000 We had a little house there, I call it my blues shack. 52:20.000 --> 52:23.000 I got to go back to my little blues shack. 52:23.000 --> 52:26.000 Do you ever want to go back home or want nothing to do with it? 52:26.000 --> 52:28.000 No, no, no, I want to go home. 52:28.000 --> 52:30.000 You know, I went back there about six years ago, 52:30.000 --> 52:32.000 six, seven years ago, maybe. 52:32.000 --> 52:37.000 I hate to say it, but I got to tell the truth. 52:37.000 --> 52:40.000 First time in 40 years I went back to South Carolina, 52:40.000 --> 52:43.000 and I got invited back for a blues festival. 52:43.000 --> 52:46.000 So I went back and after the festival was over in Charleston, 52:46.000 --> 52:49.000 I rented a car and I drove down to the where I was born at 52:49.000 --> 52:51.000 on the Combahee River, you know, 52:51.000 --> 52:53.000 and I drove back around there by the cemetery 52:53.000 --> 52:56.000 with my father and mother buried and all that type of thing. 52:56.000 --> 52:59.000 I went back there and the same blues shack was still living, 52:59.000 --> 53:02.000 I mean it was still living, I mean it was still there. 53:02.000 --> 53:05.000 And the fishing club house was still there. 53:05.000 --> 53:08.000 I helped my father build a lot of those things down there. 53:08.000 --> 53:10.000 And I went back on the river bank on the dock, 53:10.000 --> 53:14.000 and I felt at peace. 53:14.000 --> 53:15.000 I bet. 53:15.000 --> 53:16.000 Like my life, I went full tilt. 53:16.000 --> 53:19.000 I went back to where I came from and I was happy. 53:19.000 --> 53:23.000 But someone told me, but I know this is not a good thing to say 53:23.000 --> 53:25.000 and not such a good thing, but they said, 53:25.000 --> 53:28.000 West you know, you came back home like a hero 53:28.000 --> 53:31.000 and you can still read about it. 53:31.000 --> 53:34.000 Oh yeah, yeah, you can still read about it. 53:34.000 --> 53:37.000 Well put, well put. 53:37.000 --> 53:40.000 Well, and yeah, that had to be an interesting feeling. 53:40.000 --> 53:44.000 Sometimes people come back home and it's completely different. 53:44.000 --> 53:45.000 It's been developed. 53:45.000 --> 53:48.000 There's no mountain where there used to be a mountain, 53:48.000 --> 53:52.000 whatever, you know, just changes. 53:52.000 --> 53:54.000 But it sounds like it was really just left alone. 53:54.000 --> 53:56.000 It was just left, it was just the same. 53:56.000 --> 53:59.000 The community was, you know, well the only thing that changed 53:59.000 --> 54:02.000 that they had built a lot of, they had built some highways, 54:02.000 --> 54:05.000 a little, instead of dirt roads they had it paved. 54:05.000 --> 54:12.000 And like the little community from there, 54:12.000 --> 54:16.000 they had given all these little dirt roads and street names, 54:16.000 --> 54:19.000 street names, street names, street names, street names. 54:19.000 --> 54:22.000 And so it was a very, very interesting feeling. 54:22.000 --> 54:24.000 And I think that's a very interesting thing to say, 54:24.000 --> 54:27.000 because of the fire department, if you call the fire 911, 54:27.000 --> 54:29.000 they won't know where you live. 54:29.000 --> 54:31.000 You can't say, oh you go by that big oak tree 54:31.000 --> 54:32.000 on your way down. 54:32.000 --> 54:33.000 Right. 54:33.000 --> 54:35.000 They don't want anything on that street address. 54:35.000 --> 54:37.000 Big state road, what do you mean? 54:37.000 --> 54:38.000 Just follow the smoke, right. 54:38.000 --> 54:39.000 All the smoke, yeah. 54:39.000 --> 54:43.000 All right, well beyond words, it's great to have you here, West. 54:43.000 --> 54:44.000 I know we got one performance before, 54:44.000 --> 54:46.000 but I appreciate it. 54:46.000 --> 54:47.000 Thank you. 54:47.000 --> 54:50.000 And hit song, Be a Man Boy. 54:50.000 --> 54:53.000 Great to hear you do that again, really, really moving stuff. 54:53.000 --> 54:54.000 It feels great to hear. 54:54.000 --> 54:55.000 Thank you. 54:55.000 --> 54:58.000 You know, there's a video on my site, 54:58.000 --> 55:00.000 and there's one also on YouTube. 55:00.000 --> 55:04.000 Just go to West Mackie, Be a Man Boy. 55:04.000 --> 55:09.000 And that'll pop up, you know. 55:09.000 --> 55:11.000 Getting more attention with your music. 55:11.000 --> 55:12.000 Oh, yes. 55:12.000 --> 55:22.000 I recently did a collaboration with a young hip hop artist, 55:22.000 --> 55:25.000 like the old blues player and the young hip hop artist. 55:25.000 --> 55:27.000 I'm the young hip hop artist, he's the old blues player. 55:27.000 --> 55:28.000 Oh, yeah, sure. 55:28.000 --> 55:29.000 Yeah. 55:29.000 --> 55:34.000 But anyway, and we got a lot of good response from it, 55:34.000 --> 55:38.000 and a lot of people want us to do a whole CD, 55:38.000 --> 55:40.000 so right now we're working on a whole CD. 55:40.000 --> 55:42.000 I bet you could do whatever you want, you know. 55:42.000 --> 55:45.000 Do that hooker sound, and it takes me back to West Africa. 55:45.000 --> 55:49.000 Do you ever study some of the West African music coming out of these days? 55:49.000 --> 55:51.000 Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. 55:51.000 --> 55:55.000 But this is great because it put the young kids in touch with the blues. 55:55.000 --> 55:57.000 Exactly, the hip hop thing, right. 55:57.000 --> 55:58.000 With the blues thing. 55:58.000 --> 56:02.000 You know, so if you want to look up the video, 56:02.000 --> 56:08.000 go to City Real, R-E-A-L, City Real, and the song is called Passing Me By. 56:08.000 --> 56:11.000 You know, I hate to say it, but you know, because I'm in it, 56:11.000 --> 56:13.000 but I can't tell a lie, it is a good video. 56:13.000 --> 56:14.000 Oh, yes. 56:14.000 --> 56:16.000 And man, and I'm looking good. 56:16.000 --> 56:20.000 Oh, he is looking good, and sounding good, too. 56:20.000 --> 56:23.000 Find out more at WesMackey.com. 56:23.000 --> 56:26.000 Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Wes Mackey here at 88 Keys on a Monday night. 56:26.000 --> 56:27.000 Thank you, thank you. 56:27.000 --> 56:28.000 Really nice session. 56:28.000 --> 56:31.000 John Oliver on the drums, really great to have you here. 56:31.000 --> 56:33.000 Really nice work together. 56:33.000 --> 56:35.000 You guys want to do one more for us? 56:35.000 --> 56:36.000 Okay. 56:36.000 --> 56:39.000 We'll get you in the way, and then we've got our Cody Rentus jam session. 56:39.000 --> 56:40.000 Kicking in after that. 56:40.000 --> 56:42.000 So one more round of applause for Wes Mackey. 56:42.000 --> 56:43.000 John Oliver on the drums. 56:43.000 --> 56:46.000 It's an 88 Keys Monday night session here. 56:46.000 --> 56:51.000 Wes Mackey, ladies and gentlemen. 56:51.000 --> 56:55.000 Make it funky, John, okay? 56:55.000 --> 57:01.000 The pedal's ticking. 57:01.000 --> 57:03.000 Oh, yeah. 57:03.000 --> 57:06.000 Can I get some more voice in the monitor? 57:06.000 --> 57:08.000 I can't really hear myself too well. 57:08.000 --> 57:16.000 All right, maybe that's probably a good thing, but anyway. 57:16.000 --> 57:18.000 Write us a letter, call or email, 57:18.000 --> 57:47.000 bluecedu.tv with Marley Walker can be seen every Friday at 7 p.m. on channels 23 and 24. 57:47.000 --> 57:50.000 And again, Monday's at midnight. 57:50.000 --> 57:56.000 Also in Woodinville incarnation on channel 79 and channel 23 on broad stripe. 57:56.000 --> 58:00.000 And Kitsap County, Bremerton and Silverdale and Mason County, 58:00.000 --> 58:03.000 Poles bow on channel three and channel 12. 58:03.000 --> 58:07.000 And Snohomish County and the Everett area on channel 77. 58:07.000 --> 58:11.000 And also podcasting at blues to do. 58:11.000 --> 58:17.000 And live streaming at Seattle Community Media dot org. 58:17.000 --> 58:19.000 Blues to do TV. 58:19.000 --> 58:34.000 Real music for real people. 58:34.000 --> 58:44.000 Come on, baby.