What's going on, everybody?

We have a very, very special guest, super excited today to be sitting with and talking with

Kiefer.

What's going on, Kiefer?

Not much.

Really happy to be here.

I'm just chilling in a studio somewhere in New York and happy to, you know, tune in and talk to you'all. I'm a big fan of the show. Oh, thanks, man. Yeah, thank you. And we're big fans as well. I'm so glad this was able to come together. And I thought we could kind of start, because, you know, certainly our hope with these always is that maybe some of your fans, maybe some of our fans, maybe some music fans, maybe some jazz fans, some bam fans all kind of coming together and end up here and like, what the hell is going

on? But I'd love to sort of hear, I know that you're deeply steeped in the Southern California

scene. You came up in, I believe, San Diego, but I was wondering if you could just kind of talk about

your background, how you got into music, your early influences, and how you ended up at the beautiful

place you are now.

Man, well, I started playing very young, maybe around like three or four years old.

I didn't get serious until I was probably like 14 or 15.

But I was, my dad plays piano.

He plays like Norarlene style.

Like he's not a professional musician, but he plays like,

like Professor Longhair and like stuff like that.

He loves like Dr. John.

Oh, yeah.

So he, he showed me like boogie-wogie stuff when I was young.

And I listened to a ton of blues.

I was like, you know, his favorite music, you know, Muddy Waters and Otis Span and Memphis Slim,

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