After interviewing 142 Key West musicians, I’ve heard some great stories. I haven’t been able to squeeze many of the short stories into a musician’s biography or even the weekly
Steven Mellette was born in Iowa in 1950 and grew up in the D.C. suburbs of Bethesda, Maryland. He really wanted to learn drums, but his school had purchased new
Tommy Levecchia and his two sisters are from Marlton, New Jersey, 12 miles from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He came from a musical family: his father, Tom, played saxophone and drums; and
Often introduced by Ericson Holt as “the pride of Kankakee,” Mick Kilgos was born in Kankakee, Illinois, a small town 45 miles south of Chicago. When he was 14 years
Robert Barton, aka Bubba Lownotes, is a member of the Virginia Musicians Mafia here in Key West. He was born in Richmond, Virginia. The family moved to Greensboro and then