#squeezebox squires

[accordia]

The reward that is the accordion

After a fitful decade of accordion exploits, I matured into the natural progression for all players: Jazz.

In that little-known club, off the shady Austin streets, I discovered the Squeezebox Squires, a band that did free-form accordion jazz numbers. No one in the world was exploring this innovative medium - no one!

We played together for a few years, but nothing came of it until one day we happened to be playing a birthday party for the son of the assistant to the secretary for the Governor of North Dakota.

That was our big break.