Phillip-Michael Scales/ Joel Gragg

As a kid, Phillip-Michael Scales didn’t understand what it meant that  his aunt’s close friend, the guitar player who called him “Nephew” and  he called “Uncle B,” was B.B. King. Once Phillip-Michael began guitar  lessons, the significance became so clear that he shied away from  soloing and most things blues. Instead, he fell in love with songwriting  when an English teacher told him “A great writer can make their reader  identify with anyone.” The trouble was he couldn’t find his story in the  blues.

Joel Gragg is a Singer-Songwriter, Producer, and Guitarist. His music  incorporates elements of Folk, Rock, Blues, Country, and Soul in a  genre-melting style that is always evolving. An Indiana native, Gragg  has shared the stage with Malcomb Holcombe, Over the Rhine, and members  of John Mellencamp’s band.