Slick as ice, smooth as silk and as creamy as warm butter, it's Butterfingers Jarosz on guitar.

Hailing from the hard-scrabble streets of Chicago's Southside, Butterfingers grew up tough.  Now we're not going to say how tough, but one family story has his mom yelling out across the neighborhood, "Al there'll be no desert for you tonight if you and your friends don't quit robbing those liquor stores down on Cicero." 

After graduating from 3rd grade, Butterfingers started hanging out in those dimly lit southside dives.  Sharing the stage with the likes of Joilet Slim, Alvin Alsup and Muddy Wasnewski, young all worked on his chops and perfected his powerful right cross.  Appartently in those days, a battle of the bands meant a hospital visit.

After meeting Jake Legg in the back alley of a Eastside brewery, Butterfingers joined the mix.