It was in the early eighties when you could find a guitar player named Ivan Appelrouth playing in different clubs of ​​New England area, always as member of different bands, learning everything he could from his mentor Duke Robillard, who also was then moving through East Coast area Years later, Ivan came back to his native Richmond, where he performed and recorded with Jumping Johnny Sansone Later on, in the nineties, he could be found playing and recording with Li’l Ronnie, Big Joe & The Dynaflows, Nappy Brown and Earl King amonth other well known musician In this his first solo album Ivan has decided to surround himself with a bunch of excellent musicians to record an instrumental collection of songs based on blues, swing and jump, eleven Appelrouth own compostions and four great covers The songs sound fresh and spontaneous with faultless suitable horn arrangements If you like T-Bone Walker, Pee Wee Crayton and other heroes of fifties, this is your album