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MW: Yeah, that's another one, but ‘Cryin’ For My Baby’ is the one that I wrote. He wrote ‘Blues
Gave Me A Ride’, which is also great.

BiTS: Tell me something about the music that you recorded with Maria Muldaur. She's a senior
citizen now.

MW: She’s older, for sure. I'm not sure exactly her age. I want to say late 70s, maybe 78, 79. Yeah,
but she’s in great shape. She lives literally around the hill from me here in California. So we've
known each other for many years. The ‘Empty Bed Blues’ is fabulous. That is one of my favourite

cuts too. But on the new cuts I put
Maria Muldaur on, ‘Mojo Mambo’ is a tune I wrote
and it's a tribute to Professor
Longhair, great New Orleans
piano player, and Maria sings it in
her set. She just never recorded it.
So for years, she's been doing it,
and I finally said, let's do it
together, you know. So we did.
And no, she's in fine shape, you
know, getting old like everybody
else [chuckles].

BiTS: Tell me something, do you
actually do a practise these days,
or is it just playing?

MW: I don't do much practising; I
have to say that. I should, but I
always look at it as if you're

playing, you're playing three or
four nights a week or so and that's
your practise, you know. But it's
good to practise, to get new songs
down and expand the repertoire
and all that.

BiTS: Have you got any plans for
another record? Are you going
back in the studio at some time?

MW: I actually have one in the can
we did during COVID. I did an
album. I don't know if you're familiar with Kid Andersen and the Greaseland Studios. He's also
a friend of mine and San Jose is close by. So we went down there and recorded, and actually, Kid
is playing guitar on it, and he’s a whizz. He engineered it, mastered it, videotaped it [chuckling].
But it's all my original songs from over the years, so it's not new songs, but it's rearranged all of
my original songs on there. So that will come out next year.

BiTS: Is that with the band? I would guess it is.

MW: Yes, that's with the band. Yeah, with all my Bay area, San Francisco Bay area musicians.

BiTS: Is that where you work mostly these days?