Traditional blues and ragtime is honest music and there is nothing closer to the bone than Doctor Eric and Billy G. They are a startling reminder that less is more, that you can hypnotize and "hit that nerve" when it's just a guitar and harp.

Eric Heiligenstein, M.D. was born in Belleville, Illinois in 1955. He has been involved in music and has had a love for the blues since his early years. 'The Doc' graduated from medical school in 1980 and is a practicing physician with national recognition. He has presented hundreds of professional lectures, national and international media interviews. He studied classical guitar for numerous years under such masters as Jaime Guiscafre. After watching a John Hammond concert performance in the mid 1990's he said to himself "I want to do that" and finally connected his love of blues music with his musical scholarship. From gut strings to steel, from Bach to Mississippi John Hurt it has been an education of both the hands and the heart.

Billy G began playing harp in the early 1970's. He has jammed with a wide variety of local blue's men over the years. His style draws mainly from the straight ahead blues and boogie of Chicago's south side, and has been influenced by Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin' Wolf, Taj Mahal and the rough and raw slide work of Hound Dog Taylor. A skilled side man Billy G cuts loose on the breaks, likes to mess around and will rarely play it the same way twice.

When you play music together for years you end up like a soul inside two bodies. When you play the blues, well... The blues is first about listening. Then it's about feeling. It's about how to make a guitar and harp speak from one soul to another.

"Those boys can play!"