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Writer/Singer/Guitar: Kerry Candaele. Baseball, history and rock and roll are the key words here. His mother, Helen, and his brother, Casey, both played professional baseball, but Mom had the better average. The movie, A league of Their Own, is based on Helen Candaele's life, and she has a place in the Baseball Hall of Fame. Kerry writes history books, rock and roll songs and thinks John Hiatt is an alien sent here to show us how songwriting is properly done. He's not sure about the alien part, though. He is sure that in order to make it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and match his mother's accomplishments, he's got to hit over three hundred in five consecutive years--in industry terms, that means selling a few million records. Good luck

Drums: Randy Guss. Formerly with the band Toad the Wet Sprocket, Randy played on Kerry's first record, Gas Money, and he's busy about the Los Angeles music world in bands such as Lapdog and Wood Fowler. He loves coffee, books, and playing dinosaurs with his son, Caleb. Caleb wins, always.

Bass: Pat Holloway-Colabella. Pat hails from the small inland California town of Hemet. She escaped with her life early on. And since then has made her home and name in Southern California amongst a host of great players. Pat also makes a mean canolli, in a way that only a fine bassist can.

Keyboards: Rick Solem. Rick is a mean, lean, one man machine, who spent several years playing with Dave Alvin and other Los Angeles Luminaries. In his time away from the keys, Rick is a bardolator, that is, he is one of the finer students of Shakespeare in the Southland. He can role off a Hamlet soliloquy that goes on until the beauty runs out. An amazing guy.

Guitars/Producer: Ed Tree (AKA, Mississippi Slim). Ed has redefined the playing of lead guitar for the next thousand years. What more need be said. Well, he's played with Emmylou Harris, Spencer Davis, Rita Coolidge and others. But rather than describe his career that way, the above named should be saying they got to play with Ed Tree. It's the truth.