About Us
We've Got Mileage
Between the three of us we have over 100 years of musical experience. Here's how we got it:
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Dr Jules Gliesche: Dr Jules spent almost 30 years in academia as a graduate student and faculty member. 20 of those years were spent as a Historical Linguist at the University of Florida. He brings this same interest in history to music, and the result has been his affection for the Blues as well as his desire to preserve and promote the Blues. He started out in life being trained on clarinet, saxophone and bassoon in both classical music & jazz, but discovered early on in life that playing guitar (albeit upside-down and backwards) brought with it certain "social benefits" that inspired the switch. After failing to catch on in Nashville as the “Weird Al Yankovic of Country Music”, he moved to the Hill Country of Texas and discovered the Blues. As a singer-songwriter-musician, his output to date has produced several CDs worth of original material, with a new project to be completed soon – as well as a reasonably obscure YouTube channel full of music videos of original decompositions and covers. Despite these labors of love, neither fame nor fortune have materialized, but the passion for the music remains. |
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Marie Williams: Marie's life long passion for music has taken her on a long journey across many genres and states. She began performing in her home town in Pennsyvania at age twelve, singing and playing piano, guitar and woodwinds, exploring genres from classical to jazz, big band swing and show tunes. After completing her bachelor's degree in education, Marie found musical opportunities all over the country; performing with concert bands and choirs in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, teaching elementary school music and direction children's choirs in Islamarada, Florida, and Astoria, Oregon. After several years as a church music director and soloist, Marie earned a Masters degree in Sacred Music and shared her passion with hundreds of students both young and old as a private music instructor in Virginia Beach, where she had the honor of meeting and collaborating with many talented artists across multiple genres including jazz, rock, bluegrass, country and blues. These days you will find her with her brother in Gainesville, FL running Top Hog BBQ - where she has found her calling as an old school Blues singer with Dr Jules Cool Blues. |
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David Daniel: Little David Thornton was “born in the blues”. Growing up just outside of Philadelphia, PA he spent his earliest days riding in his father’s car hearing the best of Muddy Waters everywhere they went - with a harmonica in his lap. At his first show and tell in grade school he performed “Hoochie Coochie Man” - much to the chagrin of the teachers and the resident nuns at the school. After spending years watching local blues musicians like Steve Guyger on Sunday nights and working retail day jobs he migrated south to Florida in 2017. After some searching he discovered the North Central Florida Blues Society in Gainesville at an open mic. He has been performing with Dr Jules ever since. David is heavily influenced by Little Walter, Paul Butterfield and George ‘Mojo’ Buford. He believes in keeping the music and spirit of a hard-living bluesman alive. |