Hobo Paradise
Party waiting to happen
Imagine stepping back in time to the late 1920's when early jazz, blues and rags were the thing, fresh and unpredictable, and you got Hobo Paradise, a band that covers a nice chunk of the classic American Songbook as well as straying into its own unqiue territory. Hobo Paradise was born in part from the seminal figure in Scott Joplin with a dose of ragtime's greatest finger style guitar player and singer, Blind Blake. JL Stiles, solo ragtime fingerpicker/singer/songwriter, surrounds himself with an allstar cast, including Doug Ellington, Tom Griesser and Mike Rinta as the horn section, Ben Bernstein (string bass) and Erik Cruze (drums).