Some folks have asked us where the name Whiskey Bucket Blues Review came from.  Well, settle back, get yourself something to sip on, and I'll tell you right now.

It was one day, a few months after Henry and I had joined musical forces to write the blues, when Henry was telling me about how life was when he as growing up down in the delta.  (Yes, Henry did his time in the cotton fields as a kid, and lived in the shadow of the big river) and he said "well charlie back in those days road houses used to have a whiskey bucket with a dipper in it and they'd just pass it around."

I've heard of a lot of stuff but I've never heard of this little bit of Americana.  So I said "Henry tell me more" and he said " well they had this whiskey bucket and they's call the moonshine boy and he brought it around to the folks."  I about wet my pants on that one.  Two great phrases--whiskey bucket and moonshine boy--and I  knew we had to have a song to immortalize that little bit of American life that's in danger of being lost and forgotten (or never known) so we wrote a song Whiskey Bucket Blues.

Before that conversation, Henry and I had been talking  (being  optimists) about how we would be making buckets of money with our songs once people heard them and recorded them and sold tons of records. So buckets were already on our mind.  When the whiskey bucket came up that pretty much did it, and our name was born.   We like the word 'review' being part of it too, because when we're playing out we like feeling  the freedom to call up our talented friends to join us as part of the show making it a kind of blues review as if we'd planned all along..

So folks, the whiskey bucket is a real part of American history.  And that's the story of how the Whiskey Bucket Blues Review became the Whiskey Bucket Blues Review.

Charlie