time in between though. I went to music school, I started writing music for film and tv, trying to be an artist and it didn’t work out. I was literally starving in America. So, I took 20 years off. I didn’t do any music and I came back to music just for fun. A band I started got signed and next thing you know, here we are.
You once worked as a singing waiter in an American themed steakhouse. Tell us about that.
Yeah, I did. It was a country western steakhouse and all the waiters were required to sing country and western songs. There was a couple of fiddle players. We had a really great time playing music but here’s the problem with employing singing waiters. Most of us don’t want to be waiters. And I was a terrible waiter. And no matter how good a singer I was I couldn’t sing my way out of how bad a waiter I was.
Are you still involved with the blues rock band, ‘The Dance Hall Pimps?’
That was the band I started for fun and got signed. No. The Dance Hall Pimps, you know, we kind of had our ride. We did the two records, really pleased with those records. We’ve licensed that music into films c. But I really needed to kind of go off on my own and do different kind of music. The great thing about the Dance Hall Pimps was they had this big raucous, blues rock, flamboyant show and sound. But that was kind of our only sound. It was a good sound but only one sound. And I wanted to do other things so it time to go off on my own. Some of the guys from the Pimps actually still play with me. Daniel Alexander, the keyboard player from The Dance Hall Pimps, played on ‘Nightly Suicide.’
Where do you mostly perform now?
I tend to perform down in the American south, mostly. You kind of go where the fans are and where the music resonates and my music tends to resonate in the American south. I just did 4 shows in Texas last month. I’m heading to Florida next week and Tennessee. But, I also play in Canada. There’s a great roots music scene in Canada I was introduced to by some roots musicians in Canada. I’ve been there before and I’m coming back.
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