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BiTS: Yes, I gather that you did. I wasn't there, incidentally. I found out

about you because of your winning the prize. I was notified that you'd won

the prize.

DS: Okay, yeah. The band is doing good actually. We're very, very happy

with it because we're only a simple blues trio. I want it that way. I have

always wanted to have it. We have an old school upright bass. We have old

school drums and I play harmonica, guitar and I sing. So it's a blues trio, and

we've done quite good in the prizes [chuckles]. We've won the Belgian Blues

Challenge as the best blues band of Belgium. We got 2ⁿd place at the European
Blues Challenge, where all the European countries participate and our

drummer was voted by a

jury of radio promoters and

festival organisers and

booking agencies, as the

Best Blues Drummer of

Holland. He's from

Holland.

And now recently, the

latest prize is me as a

vocalist. So I’ve got to be

quite honest, I appreciate

those prizes a lot, but even

if we don't win the prizes,

we keep on playing the

music we love because

that's the reason why we
do it. We don't do it to win

prizes. We play music because we love the rhythm and blues, and we love

writing our own songs. And yeah, there will be a new album out. Yeah, we're

on a blues high at this moment [chuckles].

BiTS: Tell me about your albums, Sam.

DS: Yeah, so we’ve got three albums out already which are available on all

streaming platforms and what we always do is try to make it our own sound