Steve Burnside

I recall driving around Fort Erie Ontario in my 55 Chev with other members of my band, (about 1960)to find a good reception spot so we could listen to the RnB hits by Bobby Bland, Lowell Follsum and others. This was the ONLY place we could hear them as there wasn’t any Blues radio in Ontario at that time … George launched me into a Blues career that still keeps me going and recording 50 years later … I saw George at the Elvis show in Buffalo in 57 and was as eager to see him as I was Elvis … saw him again at the Buffalo Auditorium about 1962 with the Platters and the Drifters … my band plays “The Big Heavy” and I think of The Hound Dog often, and how much his show meant to me and what an influence it had on those of us fortunate enough to have heard him on the air … Steve Burnside www.burnsidebluesband.com