[upbeat music fades] That was it.

Hey, it's Alex Schultz, and you're listening to Blues With a Feeling with Shaun Bindley.

It was an interesting, you know, set of circumstances.

And what had happened, sort of by default, I had, um, I had managed to play on quite a few records, uh, and I had become something of a, of a studio guy in addition to the fact of, of seven years straight with Rod Piara and the Mighty Flyers and a few years before that with William Clarke's band.

Uh, but I was doing a l- playing on a lot of people's records around Los Angeles area, which was wonderful, and I really enjoyed it.

But what I had noticed as being a sideman and within this world of blues music was, which has always been a niche market and, uh, always independent labels, in other words, not big budget kind of recordings, um, the time constraints were always really tight.

You know, it was kind of like, "Come in.

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