Hello friends! things are heating up at Way Music. Tonight I want to introduce a new podcast, "Rico's Place" Where I sit in with guitarist and storyteller Rico Woltz, who holds space most nights infront of the ABC store where Kuhio Avenue splits off from Kalakaua Avenue (the actual corner is Kuhio and Kuamoʻo). He is an outstanding guitarist, and a keen social commentator with a sharp eye and a ready ear that has allowed him to learn about people in the neighborhood, housed, unhoused, and tourists alike, who come back to chat and listen to the music again and again. In Episode 1, "The Last Thing You'd Ever Think," we play some original music together, and Rico tells the the story of one of the neighborhood's street people, a Hollywood actor. Here is the full set of music Rico and I played that night, a sort of experimental jazz-blues improv.
