CURTIS SALGADO

"Here's the game plan of what I do," says Salgado, whose musical adventures have led him to gigs as a singer and harmonica player with numerous bands, most notably the Robert Cray Band, Roomful of Blues, and, for a brief period, Santana: "I like a lot of different music. I like jazz and blues and soul and gospel and country & western. I like everything from George Jones to George Clinton, and that's the truth. My music is a hybrid of all the stuff that I admire. I just play what's in my head, and I try to piece the song together, and for whatever reason, it usually comes out as hard-ass rhythm and blues."