No, he's not a country star, but a multi-instrmentalist, songwriter, label owner, performer of over 300 sold out shows at Rockwood Music Hall, born, bred and living in NYC in all his 50 some odd years. Blake started performing at age 8. He brings some game, driving up fr NYC with the quiet, surprise secret weapo: fr Finland,labelmate Janita....We add her to the play chat play, as I dive into the WPKN library and find her record 'Haunting'. We play a track fr Blakes latest Violent Delights' that came out last wk. Blake brings a small rig to the studio and plays a cpl numbers, while I invite some local neighbors in to add to the live studio audience. 5 new people to the wpkn studios ths morning who have never been there before til today, got a nice treat on what our listeners gave us.

Blake and I exchange tracks in the DJ for a day thing that we do, finding out what his influences are, so there are a few surprises in it for me as well. I play off of that, of course, on the fly, augmenting the tone and the beat. So much music, so little time evidenced by my being cut off by automation at the end of the show.