Live Music: Bad Daddy

Bad Daddy's musical perspective is a bi-coastal brew. With one foot in Chicago's Lake Michigan and the other in Maine's frigid Atlantic, Paul Waring's time between Maine and Illinois lets the Bad Daddy fuse big city grit with salty New England sensibility. Paul's blues is unapologetic and stylish – a gritty, crunchy compression of classic blues and dank, sticky roots rock. For 20 years, that sound anchors the themes in his music and on his new record, "It's a Mad Mad Bad Dad World". Shaken together, Bad Daddy makes a modern cocktail of feel-good, soul-filled tunes that groove and move.