| Influences | To name a few: My ever tolerant and encouraging wife Olivia, Russ and Leora Byron (my mom and dad - he played drums), Van Morrison, Joe Cocker, Jim Amsden, Louie Jordon, The Meters, Roy Buchanan, Jimi Hendrix, Delbert McClinton, Gordon Olin, Tom Jones, Albert King, Rufus Thomas, Wilson Picket, Steve Crocker and lots of other Stax and Atlantic performers, Jack Swanson, Jimmy Rushing, Joe Williams, Steve Crocker, Carl Gagnon, early Steve Miller, Steve Winwood, Jethro Tull, Mark Miller, The Surfaris and lots of other instrumental surf music, Vanilla Fudge, The Yardbirds, Stevie Ray Vaughn and lots of electric blues both old and new, Dave Pelkey, Harry Starbird, Jimmy Smith, Joey D, and any jazz organ trio I ever saw, Pete Ippoliti, Cousin Mike, Uncles Kent and Vaughn, and a voice inside my head (is that Skin Byron?) that tells me "Do it your own way, fool." |
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