‘Relish’ should definitely be in everyone’s collection. Although primarily a blues rock album, it has a little something for everybody. The combination of Dave Kalz and Gulf Coast Records is a winner!

Jorma and John Hurlbut touring in July!

“It’s music that’s created by a specific group of extremely oppressed people in order to deal with oppression that they are suffering. But it’s so strong that those of us who didn’t grow up in horrible oppression can feel it, and people who don’t understand the words can feel it.”

“The title track and central theme of this EP is learning and knowing when to turn inside and rely on the passions that fuel you.” – Clay Melton

CD box set tells the story of an important and long-overlooked regional music scene of the 1940s and ’50s
Contains 472 audio tracks on 16 CDs and a 352-page hardcover book featuring artist biographies and details about recording in Washington,

local record companies, radio and TV, and venues.

“Heavy Shoes is a metaphor for something that is weighing you down. That feeling of every step being heavier than the last and not being able to carry the baggage any further. Heavy Shoes was the first song I had written for the album, and kind of a template we wanted to use for the rest of the record. Heavy, bluesy, straight ahead and honest.” – Chris Tapp

Today sees the premiere of the rootsy “Everywhere You’ve Been”

After the darkness of the past year, the track speaks to a shared longing for the sun to come out and shine once more

Standards album out August 6!

Geer’s dad was something of a “swashbuckler,” according to the songwriter. An Alabama idealist with mystic leanings, he marched with Martin Luther King Jr in the early ‘60s, and eventually made his way out to San Francisco embracing the emerging hippie consciousness, joining a commune in Oregon before eventually going on to study acupuncture and traditional medicine in China.