Since returning to the scene in 2003, [Bill Homans] has released three albums, with a fourth coming out next month. Winnipeg audiences will get a preview of the new Wheel Man CD when he plays the Times Change(d) Saturday (admission is $10) as part of the club's month-long Celebration of the Blues festival. The event kicks off tonight with local act the Perpetrators ($5) and continues Friday with Chicago's Lil' Ed and the Blues Imperials ($20); March 9 with Ottawa/Austin, Texas-based Sue Foley ($15); Winnipeg's Big Dave McLean on March 24 ($5); and Halifax's Morgan Davis on March 30 ($10).

"After I got my journalism degree, I was a daily reporter, but I'm not good in offices," he says bluntly over the phone from his Oklahoma home. "I'm opinionated and occasionally smelly and the second time I worked in an office I didn't have any teeth, so my lack of a good smile was an effective bar to my employment as a white-collar professional."