Sweet potato pancakes for breakfast in Memphis

Omar and Darran hanging out on Beale while Bucky makes a call.

Darran at Sun Studios

Al and Bucky inside SUN studio

This is one of the first gigs Fathead ever played. It was at a place out in Scarborough. We're pictured here warming up the crowd before bringing John onstage. The owner didn't like us much and never hired us back again. A few years later, after we won a Juno Award, that same bar owner saw us playing to a jam-packed house in Penticton, BC. He told us if we would have had this group of musicians playing his place, he would have surely had us back. I guess he didn't realise that the band members were exactly the same!

The band kicks back in BC at the "Backwoods Paradise"

Al & Bucky share a laugh with bluesman James Armstrong

Omar & John take a photo op with blues great Sam Lay. Sam played drums for Howlin' Wolf, Paul Butterfield and a host of others. A true icon.

This was taken in Thorald during the Canal Bank Shuffle. It was Bucky's debut with the band. The music on the breaks was so loud, we were trying to seek some refuge in the stairwell!

Jesse O'Brien (left) played piano on a few tracks on the "Building Full of Blues" disc, while Shakura S'Aida was featured on a duet with John on the track "What About Me?"

The great Lance Anderson provided some soulful Hammond B-3 organ on the disc as well.