Short post, but a meaningful one. Go see Trampled Underfoot and K-Floor in Avalon this weekend at the Golden Inn Hotel & Resort. I just called to check ticket prices and it's free. FREE. Let me lay down a little history.

I caught K-Floor for the first time at a Y-100 Feztival on the Camden waterfront. Our Lady Peace was playing the main stage, but some bluesy soulful rock was burning up a tiny side stage. Some wick organ and raging blues guitar thumped around while a young Steve Tyler meets current day Chris Robinson voice sang, reasoning loud into the microphone. I stayed, listened, then youthfully ran back to make out with a young lady from UDel.

Rats Live On nO eviL staR was the only cd I was able to find from K-Floor. Spend the $.01 plus shipping and order it. I listened to those 9 songs until they were baked into my vocal chords. Then I googled the lead singers name and found he just started another band with his sister and brother. Trampled Underfoot was born and went back to the blues roots, covering Sam Cooke, Muddy Waters, Son House while coming out with their own bluesy riffs.

I was so intrigued and into the music I convinced my brother to travel to Kansas City from Lawrence Kansas to see them while visiting him at school. Well worth it, and we were the only boys wearing Phillies shirts in the entire town.

SO! Not to bore you and tell you they won the 2008 International Blues Festival, not to drain your eyes to read more lines detailing their win of the 2007 Kansas City Blues Challenge, but K-Floor and Trampled Underfoot are the real deal and playing for free.


"and this was a guitar on the wall of the bar and he plugged it in and was Playing it.. it was some cool shit" - A caption from one of the pics on their myspace.

I hope you listen to some track in the myspace links above. I doubt you've seen fingers move this fast on blues riffs or actually feel like someone's heart's been crapped on when listening to Rather Be Blind. Go see them or else they'll be gone for another year.

They'll also play the Bridgeport Rib House, an old steady in their small tour rotation 4 years ago, on 6/21. See you there.

- ATM & Tanzi