PETE MOLINARI is a country blues artist from the Medway Delta. Pete was born into a large Maltese/Italian/ Egyptian family in Chatham, Kent. Molinari had an odd childhood. While his friends were listening to Nirvana and Oasis he developed a deep infatuation with the Billie Holliday, John Coltrane, Leadbelly and Bob Dylan records of his older brothers. "We had a sideboard unit with a record player", he remembers. "I would sit and stare at these records going round while my brothers were out playing football". Discovering himself to be lacking in the academic and athletic departments, Pete devoted his life to art. "My parents came to this country to work and found my decision hard to accept. And I’ve had hundreds of jobs, from working in a factory to digging potatoes, that have only lasted two or three days because I’m only ever thinking about songs". After reading Woody Guthrie's 'Bound For Glory' and Jack Kerouac's 'On The Road', which were pretty much like the old and the new testament for him, Pete completely absorbed the romanticism of the whole spirit of a poet/musician.