Butchie Boy Olmstead
Lompoc, CA
Biography
"...Blues is like snake-bite remedy- When you get bit they cure you with a touch of venom. It’s the same with this music: it takes the blues to cure the blues." - Mi amigo, Gary Mendoza ____________________________________Everybody's felt the blues at one time or other- but playing the blues is a next natural response. For me it became necessary. After I was wounded in action and returned home from Vietnam I got bit by the blues in 1968 when at the Newport Pop Festival in California- when I h...
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