Shortly after he led his band Mofro through a spirited set at Saturday’s Sarasota Blues Fest, JJ Grey sat down with me for a pre-meet-with-fans video interview. The gregarious, and very Southern, Jacksonville-area native talked about his relationship to audiences, how gigs take shape on stage, and a bit about his favorite singer.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tTbqA-qiUB4%26hl%3Den%26fs%3D1

This article appears in Oct 29 – Nov 4, 2008.

Eric Snider is the dean of Bay area music critics. He started in the early 1980s as one of the founding members of Music magazine, a free bi-monthly. He was the pop music critic for the then-St. Petersburg...