49 West Show to debut The Creek Bank Band

Since I can't really imagine playing a show of all the songs I'm working on for the new album, and I'd been meaning to start this jazzy-bluesy cover band for a year now, the 49 West Show will be a debut of sorts: "Creek Bank" is a group I've started with bassist Sarah Carlisle. The band is inspired by bluesy-jazz artists like the great son-of-a-sharecropper himself - Mose Allison. "Creek Bank" is one of my favorite Mose albums. If you don't know about this legendary, still-alive-and-on-tour, jazz pianist/vocalist/trumpeter/songwriter, here's an interview with him from 1999: Mose Allison interview