Take Me Back To Bergen - Music

No One Really Knows Where Walkin' Cane Mark Is From. Someone Once Said That Mark Was Born Under A Cactus Deep In The Arizona Desert. Others Have Been Heard To State That An Infant Walkin' Cane Came Crawling Out From The Superstition Mountains One Day After The Worst Monsoon Storm In Phoenix History. A Fifth Generation Musician He Was Born With The Soul Of A Gila Monster And The Voice Of A Grizzly Bear. The Walkin Cane Mark Show Is A Mixture Of Raw Rhythm & Blues Rock Blues And A Whole Lotta Soul. The Great Willie Dixon Dubbed Mark "Walkin' Cane Mark" In 1988 When He Was Recovering From A Crippling Car Accident. It Was Also Willie Who First Recognized Mark's Passion For Blues & Soul Music. Fronting His First Band A Seven Piece Horn Band At The Ripe Old Age Of 21 Cane Quickly Began To Gain The Reputation Of An Intense Showman. "I Love Music I Used To Fall Into A Kind Of Trance Because Of It And What Could Happen...Did!” Snooky Pryor Known To Be The First Player To Amplify His Harp Post WWII Chicago Taught Him How To Drive A Band With His Harmonica Like A Steam Engine. Nappy Brown Showed Mark How To Signify Shout & Channel Emotion Into Every Tune. Junior Wells Made Mark FUNKY! "You Don't Pick The Blues The Blues Picks You" The Late Great Harmonica Player Junior Once Told Mark And Pick Him It Certainly Did. Mark Has The Reputation Of Being One Of The Youngest “Old School Style” Harmonica Players In The Southwest. “Walkin Cane Mark Is A Huge Bear Of A Man Tonight Mark Warmed Up For Nappy Brown & Warm Up He Certainly Does !” - Blue Print Magazine England “Walkin Cane Mark Is The Best I’ve Ever Heard Go On Out And Spread The Word” - Snooky Pryor "Walkin' Cane Mark Is The Baddest Muther F---Er
I've Ever Known I'm Glad He's Coming Up In The Blues!" - Junior Wells read less