
NEW STREAMING MUSIC!! Oliver & Kwan Live from Art in the Gardens at the North Coast Botanical Gardens
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A video of Earl performing on the Skunk Train was recently posted on YouTube. See it here.
To receive notice of Coming Engagements, or just to contact Earl, please email us at earl@solie.org



The producers recorded the event and made the recording available for promotional purposes. Click the photo at left to listen to the concert.
As the driving force behind some of the hottest rock and blues bands on the North Coast for the past three decades, Butch Kwan is a legend in the Mendocino area music community. A popular local teacher of both guitar and violin for many years, Kwan has helped shape the future of that music scene as well.
Earl and Butch met in early 2004, at a local charity concert where each had been invited to perform. The first time they played together something just clicked. They have been performing as a duo regularly since then. Everything from blues, jazz, rock and reggea, to cowboy songs and surf music. You never know what to expect when these two get together.
They appeared at the Caspar World Folk Festival in 2004 and 2006, and at Fort Bragg's World's Largest Salmon BarBQ and the Art in the Gardens fundraiser for the North Coast Botanical Gardens every year since 2004. They have headlined at the historic road house, The Caspar Inn, and perform every second Thursday of each month at Headlands Coffeehouse in Fort Bragg.
Their studio album, Skunk Train Blues is available on iTunes, from CDBaby.com, and at the Skunk Train Depot Gift Shop in Fort Bragg. To receive notice of Coming Engagements, please email us at earl@solie.org















YouTube video from sharifa88 of the Walkin' Blues Man doing his thing on the Skunk Train. Check it out!
Click on Earl and Butch's photo to listen to the Pipeline Medley, from the Local Licks Live XII concert.
There's Earl on the right of the photo, playing the cello pans with Kevin & the Coconuts.
To his right is Steve Paul, on the seconds, and Kevin Grant on the lead pans.


My employers - be nice to them...

Headlands Coffeehouse
Our home base and hang out. Great friends.

These guys play our music. Thanks, KOZT!!

The Walkin' Blues Man officially endorses the Dean Markley GT1000 Micro Amp. The Dean Markley String Co. has dedicated a page on their web site to the endorsement here.

Greg Schindel - the guy I alternate with on the Skunk Train

Good friends, a great local band.
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