These guys are getting influences from the old guys, but they’re also doing other things that kind of take blues to a different place.” And Billy Watson calls his stuff madcap blues harmonica. “Junior Watson leans toward older style but he still takes you places you don’t expect.
This show we put together for El Casino is going to be a wild one,” said Kool, a 71-year-old KXCI radio host and retired long-haul truck driver. “When you say blues, they think of an old man on the porch, but that’s not really what it’s about. The “West Coast Blues Explosion” show at El Casino Ballroom also features Troy Sandow and Marty Dodson, with the Bryan Dean Trio. 2, Kool and his longtime blues-loving partner Jeb Schoonover will host the eighth annual House Rockin’ Blues Review with Junior Watson, Billy Watson and Taryn Donath. But it was the soulful blues that struck a chord with the Iowa farm kid and set him on a path that has taken him from sitting in the audience at blues halls and prestigious blues festivals to become one of the genre’s most fervent champions in his adopted hometown of Tucson and beyond.
