Okay, as much as I'd like to say that the WASBB was too goddamn hip to ever bother baking up 3.5 minute sugar cookies for the radio feeding frenzy that had yet to die off by the way of Napster and bands that couldn't wait to give their shit away, but if I did I'd be lying right out my ass. Of course they put out albums, 45s and other stuff that bands released back then.

​

    At first, they were pretty conventional with the whole approach. This is pretty clear on First Hump, the freshman effort, featuring Alan and Iggy manning their usual duties, with Todd Smith on drums, Stevie Rigo on guitar and Al "Fern" Brin on keys. On this album both Stevie and Fern get to sing and contribute songs of their own. A real traditional band effort.

​

   The second release - Real Sense - was quite a departure from the first release. Not that surprising when you consider that this was put together after Big Al got the 24 track up and running in Gray. The entire focus is a lot more adventurous and certainly more eclectic. Not even so much a blues band's album as a gathering of individual musical expressions that appear for the moment, only to dissipate into the same ether that enveloped that wonderland up in Gray during that period of time.

​

    The album's guest violinist is S. African classical soloist Peter Daniels. Nice guy. Frighteningly great backroad driver, too. Terrifying good, in fact. He was married to the daughter of Mstislav Rostropovich at the time of these recordings, so he wandered in with his own pedigree

​

    Then there are the bootleg recordings that made their way into the music trade. Here's one that's better than most others. All in all, we've got plenty for you to enjoy while we run down a couple really obscure albums that are rumored to still exist on Chinese pirate music sites. I guess time will tell on that, but I'm remaining hopeful.