Andy Collins

Blues singer and guitarist from the far north of Australia, where the rainforest meets the reef and where there are only two seasons (wet and dry). He was first drawn to the Irish-based traditional music of his homeland, but the Blues, when he found it, was stronger and darker, and ultimately held more fascination. He hit the road at 18 in the late 1970s at the peak of the Barbary Coast days, where the entertainment was either learn how to fight or play well enough to please fishermen