Today Bailey is good friends with fellow harp-bluesman Curtis Salgado and Robert Cray “he used to play at the back of my record store”.īailey has played regularly in Europe, as Steve Bailey and the Blues Flames, and latterly with Tonky de la Peña in Spain. His greatest experience was playing with a good friend of Albert Collins, guitarist Isaac Scott, for seven years during the late 1980s and early 1990s, which was later recognised in 2017 by the Washington State Blues Society who awarded him Hall of Fame status for his work with the Isaac Scott Band. It was an education, before I’d ever really done anything in the business.” Junior Wells was playing in town and we went up to their hotel room. I had Willie Dixon’s band sitting in my living room. “I had Johnny Little John staying at my house, Carey Bell was sitting in my living room. A multi award winning Harmonica player from Seattle with a long and successful career, whose grounding in the Blues came from sharing first hand experiences with legendary Chicago players coming through town during the early 1970s.
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