David Vest

They don’t make them as real as David Vest anymore. The son of a sharecropper, the Huntsville Alabama born, Victoria B.C. resident is still going strong with no stop sign in sight some 50 plus years since he first stepped on stage with the likes of Roy Orbison and Big Joe Turner. Long revered as one of the great Boogie-Woogie piano players, Vest is much more than that. With deep roots in blues based music that originated and flourished in the American South on the cusp of the 1950s, Vest presents unpretentious down home juke joint jumping music that knows no boundaries. In his own words:

Blues is like bread. You can find real bread if you look for it, but you have to know where to shop. "Give me real cream in my coffee, real butter on my bread, real music on my radio, and a real lover in my bed." I don't want any artificial coffee whitener, oleomargarine, machine-made music, or plastic fantastic lover, if you get my drift.