text:  What gets you to the University of Michigan? Why go out to the Midwest when you're happy, I suppose, in New York City? Well, I wanted to get away from home, but I didn't want to go to California. I was accepted at UC Berkeley, Michigan, and Syracuse. Tell me a little bit about the emergent music scene at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. I mean, we think of Ann Arbor for the Blues Festival and a lot of other great musical things that happened. How did you meld into and come from that scene?