Sonogram CD

' Pete spent time working on the railroad as a gandydancer on a traveling steel gang, learning arhoolies and steel driving songs sung as they were originally given voice. He learned 'linin track' while lining track. He learned call and response style songs while driving rail road spikes into hard wood ties. As in blues, the beat and the rhythm are the most important thing's, it's dangerous to get mixed up swinging 12lb. Hammers. Pete has always been attracted to a common sound that reaches back through the ages and touches all people at a basic level. Even when composing a contemporary song he strives to make connections with those ancient places and feelings. Born in the city but living most of his life in the country he relates strongly with rural music, the delta and country blues and the roots of bluegrass and jug band styles. 'I've lived most of my life in the country on a dirt road and spent countless hours pickin guitar on the back porch. To me the blues have always been more than three chords and twelve bars, sometimes one chord is plenty to tell the story and convey the feeling I'm trying to put out. The blues is mostly about a man and woman, the yin and yang, the light and dark, the tension and release, but it doesn't always have to be sad. Some of my favorite blues are more about, I'm happy to see you, let's do something about that.