HERNAN BRIZUELA (harmonica, vocals) was hatched in the sunny climes of southeastern Mexico, and raised in the diverse environs near the City of Brotherly Love. Encouraged by the love of his family, guided by great teachers, and sharing the company of many wonderful musical friends, he managed to spread his wings and learn a few instruments along the way, including trumpet, the Great Highland bagpipes, and a little ukulele. These days you can see him strutting his stuff on harmonica or saxophone, throwing down funky-chicken finger-licking licks with some of the area’s many talented blues, rock, and folk acts.
GARY CROUTH (guitar, vocals) was born in a sleepy city in upstate New York at a time when the President was an army general and people talked seriously about bomb shelters and communists. Weaned on Burl Ives, Mitch Miller, and polkas, his musical brain awakened in 5th grade after hearing a street musician play a Bob Dylan song. Gary chose to play guitar, mainly because it looked nothing like an accordion, and studied under a nearly blind guitar master who had played trombone with the Jackie Gleason Orchestra and recklessly drove a red Karmann Ghia. Nepotism got him his first gig, singing and playing banjo on a replica packet boat pulled by Belgian horses on the Erie Canal. His style is deeply rooted in the musical dirt of his past: traditional and contemporary folk music, the blues, early country, and sixties pop songs.