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“Hot-Wired Big Band, Harmonica & Horns Blues”

Ernie Pinata - harmonica/ lead vocals
Richard Healy - guitar
Tom Gerrits - bass/ vocals
Tony Huszar - drums
Gerald Jonutz - sax
John Christensen - trumpet
David Bowman - trombone

Take one talented Italian city kid with his harmonica, and his boyhood bass-playing buddy, raised in the Oakland/East Bay area - the heart of West Coast Blues - add a virtuoso guitarist and talented 3-piece horn section with Mississippi Delta and Chicago Big Band influences, all driven by a classic “fat back” drum pulse, to create this hybrid of urban sound.