In 1960 while in college at Kansas State
University, Dave Duncan and Curtis Newby joined a Rock and Roll band being
formed. The Band "Bill and The Shields" played local clubs, bars, fraternity
parties and sock hops for the next 2 years and then disbanded. A chance meeting on an elevator 38 years
later in the historic Old Town area of Wichita, Kansas got Dave and Curtis
back together again. They started jammin and soon discovered thier common
love of early 1950's blues music. They started playing the blues at several
local venues and writing alot of their own songs, thus the "Mead Street
Blues Reunion" was formed.