I stumbled across this in my travels

youtube.com/watch?v=q1rdcj7vk...

this is the guy I used to follow around the big easy-

This is a good song IMO, but not the ideal representation of what I was thinking of when I likened your stuff to his- when I get the chance, I'll drag some of the stuff I have of his in my collection out to a smootharteK show at some point

hopefully amusement anyway reckon...

I like his style.
I felt bad that he only got to take two hits off his cigarette. He's one of those guys who makes smoking look good.
I enjoyed the way he delivered the tune, very natural, it drew me right in.

I don't think he's a real famous guy, but he's been on the New Orleans scene for a long time, been in a whole right slew of different combos- I've followed him as best I could since I left the city

He's just a mook from Jersey who went down to the bayou to go to school and somehow just fit in really well with the music scene down there- you can sort of see why in his demeanor

He had one band called Royal Fingerbowl which toured pretty good and all that, and a band called the Tin Men which was him on guitar a dude playing the tuba and a dude playing the washboard which was pretty haul ass just because they sounded so different- there's a version of the immigrant song they did at a Jazzfest out there that's pretty cool

and I think he quit smoking since then, but he was pretty good at it