Harmonica participant Jim Installing worked his method up through the Boston root base rock and roll underground to finally type the Coots. Originally the harpist for Deal with Her Best, the ’80s root base group that also highlighted Morphine singer Tag Sandman, he sat along with Bonnie Raitt as well as the The at different points following the dissolve of Deal with Her Best. Finally, in 1999, Installing installed with keyboardist Evan Harriman, drummer Phil Neighbours, and G. Like and Particular Sauce bassist “Ruler” Kane to create the Coots. Their initial CD, Message Through the Seventh Dimension, premiered in 2001.