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Vocalist, songwriter, and virtuoso blues harpist Rick Estrin was created in SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, California in 1949, and also as a young man he frequented the rough Market Street region, falling beneath the spell of music by Ray Charles, Jimmy Reed, Nina Simone, Champ Jack Dupree, among others, so …

Among the hardest-working barroom blues rings within the Western Coast, Small Charlie & the Nightcats began within the mid-’70s, began saving around ten years later, and kept on heading strong. Both constants on the Nightcats’ lengthy history had been co-founders Small Charlie Baty (acoustic guitar) and Rick Estrin (harmonica, business …