Kink in the Chain

Saturday last Mr. Whoamus and I made a scouting expedition to a funky little biker bar in the tiny hamlet of Hamel, MN, known as “Inn Kahoots.” My new blues band will likely be booked into that venue this summer, so I wanted to check it out. What we found was an ancient storefront, friendly people, and a crackerjack band of musicians known as “the Retractions” providing the tunes(I kept wondering, though, what are they retracting? I never found out...). They turned out to be an excellent cover band – playing anything and everything from blues to pop, R&B to country. They also played this tune by Mark Selby. Neither Mr. Who nor I had ever heard of this artist or this song, but it just knocked me out, so I just had to find out more about it. According to the blurb on Amazon.com, “although Mark Selby is based in Nashville and has written or co-written songs for major country-pop stars, the earthy, gritty singer/songwriter and guitarist has favored blues-rock and roots rock as a solo artist. Selby isn't from Nashville originally; he was born and raised in Oklahoma and lived in Kansas (where he earned a degree in music composition from Fort Hays State University) before settling in Nashville in the 1990s”…. you get the idea. Check him out here, see what's happenin' at the bar at http://www.innkahootsbar.com/ and check out “The Retractions” at http://www.theretractions.com/fr_home.cfm, and keep on rockin’!