Band Member bios
Kim Field
Internationally celebrated harmonica player, guitarist and singer Kim Field began his musical career in New York, where he worked with the Sting Rays, a group managed by Grammy winner Phil Schaap. Returning to his hometown of Seattle, he teamed up with Isaac Scott, appearing on two albums with the legendary guitarist. Field spent several years fronting the Slamhound Hunters, whose performances and two albums for Satin Records, 4/1 Mind and Private Jungle, were strongly received in both Europe and the United States.
Over the years Field has appeared on bills with such rhythm and blues legends as Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Gregg Allman, James Cotton, Otis Rush, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, the Righteous Brothers, Walter Horton, and Big Mama Thornton. He has appeared at the San Francisco Blues Festival, in New York City’s Central Park, at Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival, at the Winthrop Rhythm and Blues Festival, and was a featured performer at Bumbershoot seven years running. Field’s songwriting has been highlighted in the soundtracks of two feature films, The Killoff and The Lawless Land.
Tim Sherman
Tim Sherman has been performing as a topflight blues guitarist since 1981. He has won the B.B. Award for Best Electric Blues Guitarist from the Washington State Blues Society three times. During his long, successful career as a six-string artist, Tim has shared the stage with some of the West Coast's most notable blues musicians including Isaac Scott, David Brewer, Tom McFarland, Kim Field, Mark Hummel, and Mark Dufresne, as well as international blues stars like Little Milton, Buddy Guy and John Mayall. Tim has lent his talents to the bands of Mike Lynch, Out of the Blue, Stevie and the Blue Flames and the John Hodgkin Band. He also performs with his own Blues Big Band. Tim's instrumental CD "Blues From the Left Coast" was nominated for Best Recording by the Washington Blues Society.
Brady Daniel Kish
Brady Daniel Kish grew up in Michigan, where he studied with Peter Dominguez and Rodney Whitaker while earning a B.A. in classical double bass performance at Michigan State University. A graduate fellowship then took him south to the world-renowned University of New Orleans jazz studies program, where he studied under greats like Ellis Marsalis and Harold Battiste. During the five years he spent in New Orleans as a full-time musician, Brady was a founding member of the critically acclaimed jazz ensemble "Quintology." In addition to his work in the jazz idiom, he also performed and recorded with members of Soul Asylum, G. Love and Special Sauce, Blind Melon, and Galactic, among others. Now a resident of Seattle, Brady teaches privately and performs regularly with The Kora Band, The Mighty Titans of Tone, Torch, and his own band, Downright.
Bob Knetzger
Bob Knetzger brings to The Mighty Titans of Tone their unconventional secret ingredient: pedal steel guitar. On his versatile twenty strings and pitch-twisting pedals, Bob's tasty playing adds a splash of country, a dash of stinging slide guitar, a sprinkling of piano tinkling, and a dollop of throbbing organ sounds. Bob's playing has been featured in pizza parlors, shoe-store openings, and barn raisings from Wisconsin through Arizona and in Washington State. Bob and Kim Field worked together in a celebrated Seattle-based honky tonk band, the Titans of Twang, before continuing their partnership in the R&B realm.
David Hudson
David Hudson has been a mainstay of the Seattle blues scene since the mid 1990’s. David’s style includes elements of Fred Below (Little Walter), Fran Christina (Fabulous T-Birds), Richard Innes (Hollywood Fats), and Sonny Freeman (B.B. King), and you hear those influences every time he plays the blues.
David was the co-leader of the long-running Seattle-based Hudson Blues Band. More recently you have see him laying down the rhythm with The Crossroads Blues Band, The T-Town Aces, Kim Field and The Mighty Titans of Tone, The Mark DuFresne Band, The Satellite 4, T-Town Blues Revue, The Tonic. He was charter member of the former Bailey/Weston Band, Duffy Bishop Band, and The Paul Green Blues Band. In addition to all of these great artists, David has backed blues legends Jody Williams, Hubert Sumlin (Howlin’ Wolf Band), piano player Pinetop Perkins and Steve Cropper (Booker T & the MG’s).
Hudson has played stages on both coasts and has recorded extensively, but he is most at home in a 4- to 5-member blues band playing the read-deal blues and R&B in clubs and showcases throughout the Northwest.