In a city filled with hard-working musicians, Mike Maimone is right up there.

Averaging 100 live dates a year for the past 12 years, he’s also released 6 albums and 6 EP’s on his own label, and done plenty of session work for other artists.

Maimone plays the blues with a swampy New Orleans-influenced sound reminiscent of Dr. John or Leon Russell.

And in his own words, he brings “a little queerness to traditionally straight blues-based genres”.