Karl Henry Mann - 5-6:30pm

Karl grew up listening to American Roots music back when you could still find it on the radio. At the start of the 1990’s he moved from Rochester to Dallas and found himself jamming alongside monster players like Mike Morgan, Tyrone Starks, Buddy Miles, and Sam Meyers. He co-founded Blue Lisa and The Howling Dogs, a critically-acclaimed and painfully unsigned Dallas-based blues band that was a regular in the Texas clubs. When the band broke up he moved north and spent the next 10 years in Alaska, hosting a Thursday-night blues jam and playing the rough-and-tumble bars and festivals across the last frontier. Alaska, as it turns out, is critical to the story: It was here that he learned to play the lap steel by translating the licks he’d learned from Robert Johnson and early Muddy Waters records. He was a regular guest on Amy Van Singel’s Atomic Mama radio hour (the same Atomic Mama that founded Living Blues Magazine, interviewed Jimmy Reed and crashed on Muddy Water’s floor).