blues music and its ability to tell a story is seemingly simplistic yet so complex. Music is a gift to be shared, as a gift to me and the world. It is my passion that has led me to share the stories of the blues story tellers past and present in with Storytellin' Blues

As I can't connect my two soundcloud accounts as my 2nd one is an app you can share your music with Jenifer Young, youngjeni38@gmail.com 



Toby "Fingers" DelRey developed his hot stylings while a lad at the St. Ignatius Orphanage for Wayward Sinners. Sister Serenity, a crusty old nun with a musical bent, sensed the child's prodigious talent and, taking him under her wing, tutelaged him with a combination of Jelly Roll Morton, Johann Sebastian Bach and a strict regimen of dowsing the keyboard of the rectory piano -- a 1911 Flambe-Carbone upright -- with a solution of molasses and 190 proof corn liquor, setting it ablaze with the cherry of her White Owl and forcing the young genius to extinguish the flames with his speedy scales.

Although the good Sister perished in the mysterious fire that destroyed the orphanage, the young prodigy was to be forever under her influence.

A shack in the backwoods near Gatersburg, LA was where Fingers (as he came to be called) spent the next fifteen years. Just him, the Flambe-Carbone and swamp gas, entertaining the wildlife with his relentless drills and earning "likker money" by playing for local church functions and the occasional wedding.

The first "Fingers" recording, "Flaming Teeth", was transcribed on a Dictaphone∑ machine at Madam Shampayle's Gumbo by a merchant seaman who played it relentlessly for blues piano fans and loose women in ports 'ocall all over the globe. The playback heads finally wore through the original master, which is lost forever, but these new recordings --made in a modern facility with all the benefits of 21st century technology -- are available for you to enjoy.

As Finger's remarked recently in a rare moment of verbal lucidity: "The blues is in my blood, the stride is in my soul and the fire is in my heart."


Drea is a harmonica player, songwriter, singer and foot stomper; originally from Ventura, California she began playing the harmonica in 2010. Drea moved to Colorado an soon found herself in a music group (mostly a  duo) called, Slidin' Delta and teaching harmonica at a local music school in Boulder, Colorado. Slidin' Delta's first EP, Fires and Floods, released in December 2012. Drea has moved out of the Boulder area to embark on a new and exciting solo project. 

        In April 2016, Drea dropped out of graduate school at CU Boulder, packed up, and sold or donated most of her belongings in order to pursue her dreams of being a full time musician. Drea also has free harmonica lessons on Youtube and offers private video chat lessons. Drea is currently working on her first solo album and will be released and available here summer, 2017!

Pianist, Composer
Piano Duo Trio 
featuring Jackson Krall, John Blum, Mark Hennen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hMdFx5b9x8

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/3wmp95sDys9eUgub0YHrml?si=r1Tjf--BQR2pFmfk4TEnBg

Fingers DelRey is following