Colin Lake & Wellbottom
Waterfront Blues Festival
Portland, OR.
July 5, 2009

Recorded from KBOO FM a local all volunteer radio station. There are always reception problems and drops in sound from this station. Maybe it's just where I live. Anyway, I have tried to find and fix all the drops in sound. This year not all the first day was broadcast. Not sure why. Etta James canceled and was replaced by Keb Mo' but his recording contract wouldn't allow his broadcast.

Please understand that I don't know all these bands and it's hard for me to come up with all the set list's. I'll do my best and ask for help when needed.

Linage: FM tuner straight to HD>CD Wave>TLH>FLAC>torrent.

This is a big undertaking for me every year and I love doing it. Please leave your comments, I enjoy reading them. Enjoy the tunes, twofthrs



"Bullet is one of those recordings that should be heard by anybody who doubts the future of Blues music."- Greg Johnson, Cascade Blues Association

"...superb songwriting and vocal style bolstered by scorching slide-guitar and driving grooves... Colin Lake and Wellbottom will blow your mind." - The Telluride Watch

WINNER of the 2007 TELLURIDE BLUES COMPETITION

WINNERS of 2008 RELIX MAGAZINE JAMOFF! COMPETITION

In the summer of 2001 while on a month long motorcycle trip to Alaska and Canada's Northwest Territories, Colin Lake quietly began to craft a style and sound that would not come to fruition for many years.

At the time, Colin was a novice guitar player and songwriter who had yet to even really sing, and the 'band' that he was forming in his head was little more than a fantasy.

Over the next several years, however, Colin put more and more weight into his craft, becoming a proficient songwriter as well as a remarkably soulful vocalist and lap-slide guitar player.
In early 2007 Colin released his debut album Wax Wane , a blues-infused romp through love, death, and politico that included a slough of well-crafted original tunes alongside covers of Bukka White and Chris Whitley, one of Colin's strongest modern influences.

Later that year, Lake won the 2007 Telluride Acoustic Blues Competition and would prove himself as a stellar solo blues performer to his largest audience yet.

Meanwhile, back in Portland, the sound that Lake had been dreaming of years earlier had taken shape and was now hitting it's stride in the form of Welbottom , the band that Colin formed in 2006. In Spring of '08, Colin and the band released "Bullet", a high-energy album that showcases Lake's mature approach to songwriting, as well as the band's tremendous chemistry and knowledge of blues, funk and rock.

The band's current lineup features Lake on Lap Steel and vocals, Bryan Appel on electric guitar, Kevin Marcotte on Bass, Paul Ansotegui on Drums, and D.J. Redi Jedi on turntables and trombone. In early 2009, Colin headed south to New Orleans to spend four months living, playing and learning among some of the world's greatest musicians. Emerging from this experience with a whole new outlook on his approach to music, Lake is poised to bring his band around the world and to stages he could have only dreamt of as he rode north eight years before.

Set List
1. one more gallon of gasoline
2. woman on the hill
3. new tune ?? (next two tracks lost due to reception)
4. corina, corina
5. station blues
6. evil
7. gospel tune (??)