They’re a multigenerational, bi-coastal duo who come together for explosive concerts, currently between 70 and 100 per year on both east and west coasts - delighting and bewildering roots music lovers.
David Jacob-Strain is a song poet and fierce slide guitar player from Eugene, Oregon with a deep love of blues and roots music shining in every one of the songs he writes. Known for his virtuosity and emotional abandon, he moves from from humorous, subversive blues, to delicate balladry, and then swings back to swampy rock and roll. It's a range that ties him to his own generation, as well as to guitar-slinger troubadours like Robert Johnson and Jackson Browne.
Bob Beach plays harmonica with calm fierceness, a mouth-harp maestro who swaggers into a harmonica solo like the Marlboro Man. He then quietly leaves the set - leaving us wondering what just happened and how that tiny instrument can possibly sound that haunting. For decades, the Philadelphia native has brought harmonica, flute and vocals to a broad scope of genres.