"MASTER OF THE BLUES" Hans Olson in an intimate setting at The Side Door

Dressed completely in black and sporting tinted shades that never come off, Hans Olson looks like the  understudy for Death in a Bergman flick.

His ominous appearance and growling baritone are tempered by a nostalgic smile as he ticks off the legends with whom he's shared a stage: Muddy Waters, B.B. King and Willie Dixon top of the page-long list. Olson laughs..... "Most of these people," he says fondly, "are all psychotic."

Just tuning up, Olson tosses off music beautiful enough to be mistaken for a song. He's been known to quietly devastate an audience with his interpretation of "Will the Circle Be Unbroken," then blow the roof off with a rootsy, boot-stompin' number that has him strumming and wailing like his old friend Tom Waits.

If you have never seen Hans Olson before or you are a life-long fan.....DON'T MISS OUT!!!