Poppa Dawg is one of those ‘one-man-army’ crusaders that Blues (and all indie music) depends on so dearly. The concept of devoting one’s life to music with the Joy Factor being the no. 1 goal is something that the ‘greed-driven’ just can’t grasp. There’s always hope for music and mankind when there are crusaders like Rick in abundance and in some places (outside of North America) people who devote their lives to making and promoting blues are revered and respected. Besides leading his own band and making his own Blues, Poppa Dawg is ‘The Man’ when it comes to Interior, British Columbia. He keeps everything going, connecting clubs with artists, helping touring bands get gigs in Kelowna or Nelson, encourages venues to at least try live music. So, even outside of a recording context he is invaluable and irreplaceable.

Dawg has an easy-on-the-ears, natural blues voice and his guitar work betrays decades of influences from Johnny Watson to Elvin Bishop. Tasty and tasteful. But, it’s his song writing that really surprises. Great lyrics and humorous poetry abound set to catchy riffs designed for the sacroiliac. Several tracks are very memorable and worthy of ‘borrowing’, so let’s hope Dawg gets these to some ‘stars’ for exposure and royalties.

Andy 'Blues Boy' Grigg 

A "musical stew" created by a random group of musicians gathered to collaborate on original songs presented to them that evening.
*Musicians/Songwriters at all levels 
*Instruments vary and are not pre-planned
*The Songwriter is selected at random and presents two songs
*The group votes on the song they feel they can bring the most to
*Work on the song is completed in two hours or less 
*Results are recorded in ONE take
*This is NOT a POLISHED piece
*Perfection is NOT the objective 
*The objective is:
***To CREATE spontaniously
***To embrace the unknown
***To honor the songwriter's work
***To limit criticing or rewriting
***To add new flavors to the song
***To mix genres & generations
***To leave egos at the door
***To work together
***To connect as a community
***To HAVE FUN
***To enjoy the process

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