On January 3, 1970, a meteor fell from the sky in a screaming blaze of fire over Lost City in Cherokee County. Today another firestorm lights up the Northeast Oklahoma skyline. Twenty - two year old Blaine Bailey learned to play blues guitar growing up among his elders of the Keetoowah Tribe in rural Lost City, a small town north of Tahlequah. Bailey grew up listening and jamming along with the bluesy music of his Keetoowah elders, as well as his rock and roll heroes Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughn. He was also greatly influenced by the red dirt music his mother listened to while he was growing up in their small town. From these influences his own unique style of storytelling, s inging and six - string picking emerges, producing a compelling sound unlike any other that strikes the soul. His Native roots and heritage are a fundamental part of his identity, and his love of his people is evident in every strum of his guitar, every syll able he sings, and every beat of his heart. Bailey’s hauntingly unique and raspy voice enthralls audiences with tales only he can weave, born from his deep love and devotion to his home, his tribe, and to his wife and child. His unique voice combines the s oul of the blues, the force of rock and roll and the spirit of country and western music to make a sound all of his own, featuring lightning fiddle and mournful pedal steel with some serious groove and head - bopping beats.