Thanks, Ernest, for hipping us to this bluesman.

He is good!

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Since this is Mudcat Discussion Forum, I noted with interest that his write-up includes a reference to "Mudcat" and to "Mudbay":

"Dirk has been performing acoustic blues since the turn of the century (2000, not 1900!). Enamored by the raw emotion of the Delta and Piedmont blues traditions and the joyful jug band and piano boogie blues, he cut his teeth in and around Olympia, WA, playing bass & harmonica for bluesman Daniel 'Mudcat' McKinstry. He then went on to co-found and perform around the Pacific Northwest with acoustic blues band, The Mudbay Stompers. He now prefers to perform solo, singing and distilling the blues out of his guitar, harmonica, and piano at festivals, street corners, bars, boat cruises, parties, coffee houses, schools, and farmers' markets from Seattle to San Francisco, and now to Berlin, Germany. His music has been said to "soothe the soul like a fine sippin' whiskey." "