Medicine Crow

In some Native American traditions the archetypal Crow is the keeper of the Natural Law, those things that are true regardless of how humans may try to mitigate them. Mike Iott received the name "Medicine Crow" in a dream after a long meditation on the nature of Existential Truth. It could also be because he has a tendency to eat what ever is in front of him even if it is of questionable origin. Mike began teaching himself the guitar at the age of twelve. Being self-taught it took him years and decades to learn what sensible guitar players learn in weeks and months of formal study. What Mike excels at is song writing.

In the nineteen-eighties Mike was involved in forming several bands including The Iott & Price Band and The Sentinels. These were essentially acoustic blues combos, featuring strong vocal arrangements and the harmonica as a lead instrument. The Iott & Price Band released several singles in the mid-eighties that received very good reviews and virtually no air play. The preponderance of the songs were originals, many of which Mike still performs as Medicine Crow.

In the mid nineties Mike joined The Last Hippy Band bringing with him some solid original songs, strong lead and harmony vocals and a driving rhythm guitar. While Mike still sits in with the Last Hippy Band on occasion, he has launched out on his own in because of a desire to perform his own compositions.