Kim Field & the Perfect Gentlement

Kim Field and the Perfect Gentlemen is an all-star roots-music group based in Portland, Oregon. Fronted by harmonica player and vocalist Kim Field, the band includes Vyasa Dodson (guitar and vocals), Whit Draper (guitar and vocals), Denny Bixby (bass, keyboards, and vocals), and Jeffrey Strawbridge (drums).

The group’s members have performed throughout the United States and Europe at such showcases as Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival, the San Francisco Blues Festival, the Chicago Blues Festival, the Tampa Bay Blues Festival, Canada’s Tremblant Blues Festival, the Lucerne Blues Festival, Seattle’s Bumbershoot Festival, and on the Legendary Blues Cruise. They have played with shared stages with such rhythm and blues legends as Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robert Cray, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Gregg Allman, James Cotton, Otis Rush, John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins, Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, Mary Chapin Carpenter, the Righteous Brothers, Walter Horton, Big Mama Thornton, Curtis Salgado, the Proven Ones, the Drifters, Suzy Bogguss, and the Coasters.

With their international reputations as true blues stars, Kim Field and the Perfect Gentleman have established themselves as one of the Pacific Northwest’s premier R&B acts.