Mike Avery has been played on NTS in shows including Get Grimy w/ Zernell , featured first on 22 August 2018. Songs played include Searching.

When your mother plays nothing but the blues in the house, your cousin is blues titan Magic Sam, and you grow up in the same building with him on the west side of Chicago, you have little choice but to be firmly rooted in the blues.

As a teenager, Mike remembers all the backyard barbecue parties that Sam hosted. ''Man, he loved to barbecue. He used to have them all the time. And I remember all kind of blues musicians and…