This is how
it all got started.
Many moons
ago in a small section of Birmingham, Alabama called Center Point, two
young men were starting out their families with new homes and new jobs.
One named Rob Bradshaw and the other named Bill Hunter. They were to busy
trying to make a living and trying to pay all the bills to be thinking
at all about music. They did have a few spare moments of times to their
self's every now and then, when they got to play their music. But only
to their self's. Neither knew the other could play even though they only
lived 1/2 a block apart. Then one day,as luck would have it, Bill
Hunter's son Scott was playing with the neighbor hood kids next door to
Rob's house. When he returned home Hunter asked where he had been and Scott
said he had been next door to Mr. Bradshaw's house. Hunter then asked what
Mr. Bradshaw was doing, and Scott said he was playing his Guitar in the
back yard. That is all it took: Hunter grabbed his Banjo, and headed to
Bradshaw's house.
Even though
Bradshaw and Hunter came from different styles of music, there was something
special about them together. Rob's music was from the 60's and Hunter's
was from the 50's, but together they played music from the 70's and 80's.
It is hard
to tell what their style was. Somewhere between John Denver and The Grateful
Dead. I guess you could say they were Folk Singers.
Not trying
to sound like any body but their self's.
Bradshaw with
all the talent and Hunter with a lot of guts (as Hunter would say) took
on the music scene in Birmingham. After a few gigs around town, they found
a home.
Tant's Shipwreck
(Hatch Covered) Lounge. This was the place where all the skin divers would
hang out. A small place that seated about 60 or so people, but what a place.