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Where I Come From features the return of Fort Wayne, Indiana-based virtuoso harmonica player/singer Bill Lupkin, who disappeared under the radar for many years after blazing an initial trail in Chicago during the ?60s and ?70s with such blues luminaries as The Aces, Jimmy Rogers and Johnny Littlejohn, as well as sharing the bandstand with the legendary Muddy Waters, Howlin? Wolf and Junior Wells, among others. After devoting many years to raising his family and a successful business, Bill Lupkin eventually became more active again, recording his own debut CD, Live at the Hot Spot, at a Fort Wayne club in 1998. He crossed paths with exciting new Chicago Blues guitar player Nick Moss when the two musicians backed up Big Bill Morganfield?s Ramblin? Mind CD in 2000 and soon became friends. The new CD shows Bill Lupkin?s blues harp tones are still at the top of their game, and mixed with his solid singing and strong backing by "friends" including Nick Moss on guitar, Where I Come From plays as a master class in Chicago Blues. With these all-original songs, Lupkin pays a very special thank you to those legends that helped give him his start and nurtured his career as a bluesman. "Bill Lupkin has been in the thick of Chicago Blues for more than 38 years and still gets one of the best tones in the Blues Biz," says fellow harmonica player (and world-class musician) Mark Hummel in the album?s liner notes. "If you don?t believe me, check out this CD for yourself."