Mitch Wilson and Wil Kinky at Rock Creek Tavern

Mitch Wilson has spent years behind the scenes. Whether drumming for the PDX-based pop rock band The Hugs, competing in numerous jazz festivals, or spending some time on Broadway filling the drum chair for the production A Night With Janis Joplin, the Portland native "needed change," he says. "After seven years, I was done with New York City. The thought literally stopped me in my tracks." He'd had some of the... read more