 All right. We're 13 Scotland Road. This is called dream. This is called drive you insane. Listen I want to tell you a story. And it's sad but it's true. Only reason I got to tell you. I don't want it to happen to you. Times you think I'm staying in a cheap motel. I've been up all night. I've been looking for a reason to fight with. Sometimes you think it's never going to change this lifestyle. I got to tell you. I want it to happen to you. Times you think I'm staying in a cheap motel. Insane. This is called Teen Scotland Road. I want to introduce the band to you guys. So let's introduce ourselves with each of you guys. All right. I'm Bill Binford. I'm a guitar and singer songwriter I guess. I send harmonicas and I sing. Great. Now let's talk a little bit about the band. We'll jump right into it. Like how long have you guys been together? Well let me see. Aaron and I have been together almost 21 years. Geez. We met in South Orange New Jersey a while back. Benny has been with us about almost nine years now. Yeah. So yeah it's been a joyful journey. A pretty long journey I'll be honest with you. You know it's been fun. It's fun. The music is healing. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. I mean for all of us the music is healing so. And so you guys got together. I mean you found each other. You said 21 years ago and yeah. Tell me about that Aaron. How was it meeting Bill? I was I was walking. I was walking down the street and I couldn't see as I can't now. And so I had my cane and I was walking down the middle of a street and suddenly there was traffic all around me and Bill saw me from the side. He comes running out. I said dude you realize you're in the middle of the street. And I was like something. I knew something was amiss so I said thanks and he got me to the sidewalk and I got to where I was going and an hour later he showed up. Oh yeah. So so the deal was I was on my way to a friend's house to you know play some guitars and I saw Aaron like he was on a double solid line but the thing that really didn't worry me so much because he was going like straight. He wasn't weaving in and out of traffic. He was going like straight right now. Yeah and I was like well wait a minute what's this. So my mind told me to keep going but my heart said man you better go check that out. So I did. I went out there and I put them on the sidewalk and pointed him in the direction he was going and then I ended up at the same place with him about an hour maybe two hours later and it's a place where he used to play guitars all these vintage acoustic guitars very expensive very lovely and they would pass them around and people would talk about him you know how they felt how they played what they liked about him and it got to me I started playing some chords and he pulled out a harmonica out of his pocket and just played my soul. I mean I never had nobody do that it was just it was like haunting everybody in the room at that point knew that something was going on right they all knew they all knew right then and there they were like oh crap this is destined to be together yeah yeah about three or four months later we got together and it's been like that ever since. Okay and then about nine years ago you came on board were you also in New Jersey or was this when you guys had gotten to Maine? So I moved to Portland I moved to Maine first and because I had really given up on music I just wanted to relax go fishing and take you know do nothing and I was living in yeah right I was living in Naples at the time and um I brought Aaron up a couple times but you know it really didn't thrill me I mean it was really I was just tired and so I moved to Portland we sold the house in Naples and we moved to Portland when we got to Portland it was kind of like it's kind of like oh this is fun right and there was a bunch of places to play so one night I went to this open mic right around the corner on Free Street at the Dogfish and this guy was playing with his band and I mean it was a garage man it was like you know there was beginners but there was just something about him that really caught my attention I mean it really caught my attention I couldn't quite pinpoint it at the time I know where it is now it was the determination to be better yeah you know right but he couldn't be better when he was surrounded by the people who were staying the same he didn't realize that at the time but I knew it right away so I talked to him and he was like well I don't know Bill maybe um I don't know we were back and forth with that for a little bit and one day he came over the house and he started playing and and we were playing and I said to myself I says you know I better work with this guy when loser draw he's going to be a better guitar player but if he takes to what I'm saying then you know I could have a really really good uh uh a bandmate a really good guitar player somebody who can play what they feel and play what what is written you know play the moment instead of just stand down playing the guitar you know you get into the moment it's it's deeper than just standing up there and watching television while you're playing you know all that stuff it's kind of like to me it's like I'd rather you know eat lead paint right right then then then do that and you know so it was it was it took time there was time there was there was trial and error there was anger there was arguments just like any other kind of a family one day you hate the next day you love them but you always know they're going to be there you know what I mean yeah um and uh one day I'll never forget it one day um I was playing with him and all of a sudden everything clicked everything at once what a magical moment that was and then Aaron came up permanently because I called like Aaron man I got this guy I mean he's just what we need Aaron I got this guy I want you to meet him his name is Benny he's like you know and I went on and on and on and um our first encounter was um with the three of us playing was just goosebumps and it wasn't what it is now okay you have to understand what it is now has progressed and it's like so much better than it was then but that foundation at that point was we had never really started at that foundation before you know and uh Benny's for us every inch of the way but you know he he he oh my god there are some nights most nights pretty much all nights when he starts playing and everything just lifts up you know you get good the hair in the back of your neck you get goosebumps you know and Aaron well Aaron will play right through you you don't Aaron Aaron is Aaron it's like this special thing me I'm still learning right so so let's talk a little bit about the the songs that we heard and then we're going to be hearing some more songs because this will be right in the middle of the concert uh like where did you guys come up with some of these songs are they are these newer songs older is it from a set place it seemed like you had some that were really interesting kind of uh had a little exotic feel some were just straight up real bluesy some were ballads that's the object run right we don't want to lock down it and you know and be like well all we do is this or all we do is that no we do what we feel if I played the songs in the sequence that I wrote them or the sequence that we wrote them or the sequence that we we did the music and other people wrote words for us it would be that it would be the the the timeline of our lives my life first and then Aaron coming in and then Benny coming in it's like it's a soundtrack of emotions right and feeling and because we never feel the same some music doesn't express the way we feel so we have to go outside sometimes just the blues sometimes you know and sometimes it's just a sweet sweet ballad yeah one that makes you sit down and go oh yeah get it boys right you know what I mean yeah so um and we we vow to never stop writing in as many ways as we can as many styles of music as we can sure because I mean you know wouldn't it be great if all of a sudden one day you hit and you had a song in every genre you played it all exactly right everything except opera well we could probably get that too yeah but um yeah we don't want to stick it gets to me it gets boring yeah you know and everybody says you know you need more fast songs everybody says well you know the ballads are fine or the instrumentals aren't going to do this now they express what we feel right and that's that's what we like to do yeah and let me ask is Aaron uh you're the enigmatic guy obviously so how how long had you been playing harmonica flute I mean did you pick this up at a young age things I mean I met the harmonica the way everyone does at four or five and I didn't know what to do with it you know I just made noise with it but then in college I just just the most random thing of a friend of mine had a roommate who was from Texas and he could play and he showed me a couple of just little things that I mean I didn't know there were at the time I didn't know there were two different kinds of harmonicas and that's a whole other thing there is this kind which is your front porch blues kind of you know but then you have I'm going to show you this this other one that was that I was playing in sometimes and it's a whole other instrument it has a button on the side it can change all the notes from sharp to flat so this one is more like your Stevie Wonder harp it just kind of has some weird things that you can then you have to think a lot more it has a lot more things but you have to be responsible for what it's going to do it's just like having a more powerful car okay it's it's a it's a portion now but you gotta handle it different yes so and and I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you I mean that you play two flutes sometimes yes that happened um they're both Irish penny whistles tin whistles and but the way the Irish don't usually play them two at once that's a very I love ethnic music from around the world like the serious stuff so this is the way that people play from Eastern Europe parts of parts of Asia and they're both the flutes just happen to both be in the same key so I could just so yeah it's awesome yeah thank you Aaron for that it we we make sure to to get everybody in uh guitar styles I mean what uh Ben is is did you have anybody that you like to pattern yourself it's very easy that's how I feel it has that look that you just it's gliding along I think the fact the electric guitar like has that shine to it too it's almost glowing it doesn't feel like you're putting any effort it feels like it's just kind of going along it's Carlos Santana that kind of feel yeah yeah I I mean I grew up I actually grew up liking like AC DC yeah I listened to like Van Halen Metallica I liked a lot of hard rock heavy rock but guitar hero was really what got me into guitar which is really weird right but all those hard rock songs were on there and I was like I just want to learn the real thing yeah and I went to town and 14 I think almost 14 years later now I I feel like I've never taken a month off from playing because it's just been so fun right it's really great there's always something new to learn so I want to thank everybody I really want to thank these guys at 13 Scotland Road uh it's a great show uh we'll probably have a couple more songs coming up on the back end but thanks everybody for watching take care we'll see you next time this is called Spanish Harlem we're 13 Scotland Road uh this is called Walking My Mind you can come check us out at Levittier the only two places we're really playing this summer uh because we're pretty busy so touch me well I miss you when I hear the moans in the groves in the room up above yeah I've been thinking about you baby I miss you when I share someone else I miss you I just want to hold