It was a late night in Pioneer Square when the Issac Scott Band cranked up this Seattle favorite, as only Isaac could do.  1978.  Isaac Scott, guitar and vocal; Jay Cloidt, Hammond organ; Tom Svornich, drums; Gerald Gipson, tenor sax; Mark Dalton, bass.

Isaac Scott Plays Red House at Hibble and Hyde's after hours!  1978

"Three Guitars" is an ongoing show featuring Chris Stevens, Jack Cook and Brian Butler (L to R) - here's a song by the late, great Tom McFarland.  Myself on bass with the "King of Swing," Russ Kammerer on drums! Chris Stevens on vocals.

Get In, Get The Money, Get Out! - by The Three Guitars Show  (Current)

Seattle poet and performer Willie Smith gives you the inside story on the annual Seafair celebration here!

Toadstool Sample

The Fare to Pay to Monday by Seattle Poet Willie Smith and FreeBass Explosion (1980s)

Nebraska's own Blackjack does their renown tune live!  Greeley Colorado, 1971

Queen of the Flatland Shuffle  (1971)

It was great fun to work with Caela Bailey on her album, "The Gospel of the Gutter Queen," featuring many songs written by her dad, my bandmate, Ron W. Bailey.  This is one of my favorites, a true story rendered in song!

The Gospel Of The Gutter Queen

Ticket To Paris by Miss Caela Bailey!   (2018)

A long afternoon jam at Mark Lacas' (guitar) produced this rollicking 6/8 snippet.  A good time was had by all!

Jamming at Mark Lacas'

Spring Fling (2022) Jam with Mark Lacas and Friends

Helen Taylor was the real thing.  I had the pleasure of knowing her as a young musician in Nebraska, and playing music with her and other members of her band, the Taylor Sisters.  They were regularly featured at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, and Helen was on her way to stardom when she tragically died in 1976, far too young.  I will never forget her clear, haunting voice, and her fine lead guitar playing.   Thanks to Bill Wetterer for these songs!   

Helen Taylor, Nebraska's Queen Of Country Music

Will Peoples and I were hanging out at Bad Animals studio downtown, with (as I recall) Les Merrihew on drums and Dave Conant on guitar when Dave Stewart burst into the room, fresh from a show at Bumbershoot, and he jumped on the grand piano, yelling "I'm ready to BOOGIE!"  This is what happened next!

Will Peoples Unreleased

Shameless Boogie Woogie

Innovative steel player Freddie Roulette joins chromatic harp whiz Don McNeff for some Oakland Jazz! 

Fast or Famine

Nebraska rockers "Blackjack" live at a Greeley Colorado rock festival, spring 1971...

The Shape I'm In

Midwest band "Cotton," an outgrowth of the Liberation Blues Band, driven by the incredible powerhouse drumming of the late Dave Trupp, give Little Richard's classic tune a real workout!  Featuring Jim "Cid" Cidlik on B3 and vocals, and George Bryan on guitar.  I sat in with these guys from time to time (as here), but they took off for Colorado and I stayed in Nebraska with another band.

Lucille by Cotton  (1970)

Father Tony Haycox, itinerant Jesuit and director of the Seattle Catholic Seaman's Club, sings and plays his big 12-string guitar; with Joe Martin on harmonica and Mark Dalton on the bass. From Father Tony's album, "Home From the Sea."

Home From The Sea

Donegal Danny by Father Tony Haycock  (2000s)

An unused track from sessions for the Criminal Records album "Live at the Jolly Roger Roadhouse" (still available as an Mp3 download from Amazon.com).  At over seven minutes, this track was deemed too long for the album, but it was the best song of the evening by far. I started playing with Tom shortly after moving to Seattle in 1973; five nights a week at the Boulder Cafe in the Pike Place Market - an education in the blues. Tom was a truly great singer, guitarist, and songwriter. The best of his original songs stand up with the best blues songs ever written, including this one.  Blues for Our Time uncoils in its own leisurely time, becoming this Army vet's  stirring condemnation of a world and a lifetime of WAR - which continues today after his death.  This song tells you what kind of man Tom McFarland was.  Personnel here is Tom McFarland, guitar and vocal; Perry Welsh, harmonica; J.W. Moore, drums; Mark Dalton, bass.

Blues For Our Time - The Tom McFarland Band  (1984)

The late Isaac Scott began his musical career in the church, and, like Elvis Presley, gospel music remained a strong foundation for his music throughout his life.  Here's an original "secular gospel song" from the unreleased album we cut in 1977.  Unusual for Isaac, he only sang on this tune, leaving the guitar and beautiful solo to Robin Kutz.  Jay Cloidt, Hammond organ; Tom Svornich, drums; Mark Dalton, bass.

Have I Given Anything Today - Isaac Scott  (1977)

The basement of 2010 F street in Lincoln, Nebraska was the scene of much music back in the 60's.  Proprietor Ron Jahde had an amazing stereo in the basement with a pair of Botec speakers that would blow your socks off.  He used to put on the 1812 Overture (with the cannon fire) to show them off... Boom!  We had some fabulous jams there, and Rick Evans (of the Eccentrics and Zager and Evans) had a room upstairs where he was writing songs - many songs.  Here's a jam that featured Mark (first) and Rick (second) taking lead guitar breaks, with Ken Rose on bass and Dave Trupp (pictured) thundering on the drums like nobody else could in those days.  Only other musicians got to hear Rick Evans play this kind of scorching lead guitar through an amp he modified himself - a whole different thing than the folksy persona he'd adopted as part of Zager and Evans!   

Twenty-Ten Jam by Rick Evans & the Boys in the Basement (1967)

The basement of 2010 F street in Lincoln, Nebraska was the scene of much music back in the 60's. Proprietor Ron Jahde had an amazing stereo in the basement with a pair of Botec speakers that would blow your socks off. He used to put on the 1812 Overture (with the cannon fire) to show them off... Boom!  We had some fabulous jams there, and Rick Evans (of the Eccentrics and Zager and Evans) had a room upstairs where he was writing songs - many songs. When he needed a backup for demos, the boys in the basement were sometimes recruited to be the band, as happened here. Rick Evans, lead guitar; Mark Dalton, second guitar; Ken Rose on bass;  Dave Trupp, drums; and Tom Palmer on vocal.  Only other musicians got to hear Rick Evans play this kind of scorching lead guitar through an amp he modified himself - a whole different thing than the folksy persona he'd adopted as part of Zager and Evans!  Spring, 1968... 

Losin' Man by Rick Evans and the Boys in the Basement  (1967)

Recorded live and raw at the Columbus Nebraska City Auditorium, April, 1968!  Mark Dalton, lead guitar and vocals; Ken Rose, bass and vocals; Don Sutton, theramin and harp; Roger "Jake" Jacobsen, drums.  The Midwest's original acid punk rock band on tour across the flatlands... on to Norfolk!  

Tobacco Road by the Antelope Pavilion  (1968)

Our band, "Guitar Slim," played all over the PNW for a dozen years through the 1990s into the early 2000s, including all the major festivals in the area, with two CDs released in that time.  Personnel included Pat of guitar and vocals, Dennis Ellis on sax and vocals, Mark Dalton on bass, and Joe Guzman here on drums.

Definitely Live

Kindhearted Woman by Pat "Guitar Slim" Chase live at Rose Petals bar and grill  (1990s)

Late night at Hubble and Hyde's, Seattle's Pioneer Square - Music ran from 10pm to 4am.  As you can hear, this was recorded late when nobody was feeling any pain!

Conversation With Collins - Albert Collins with the Isaac Scott Band  1978

A crazy quilt of miscellaneous tunes from across my musical career, such as it is... Be sure to click on the individual song titles to read the stories behind each, and enjoy these enthusiastic, if not always polished pieces!  

Popular tracks by Mark Dalton