HOBO PARADISE

Imagine stepping back in time to the late 1920's when early jazz, blues and rags were the thing, fresh and unpredictable, and you got Hobo Paradise, a band that covers a nice chunk of the classic American Songbook as well as straying into its own unqiue territory. Hobo Paradise was born in part from the seminal figure in Scott Joplin with a dose of ragtime's greatest finger style guitar player and singer, Blind Blake. With a need to give this music the full effect, guitarist, singer and songwriter, JL Stiles, made a call to Mike Rinta, a fellow ragtime fanatic and closet ragtime pianist and a world class and world renown trombonist and arranger, whose resume includes touring with Jimmy Vaughan, Sly & The Family Stone and Carlos Santana among too many other luminaries to name. The two spent some time together arranging JL's music for the classic three piece horn section and bass and it was a done deal, the party was on. Stiles' guitar would assume the role of piano in the band for its..