Meet The Solicitors

Stephen Robert Sanderson aka "Music Man"    

Click here to read a poem by Steve!

Steve Sanderson is a self taught musician with a natural talent to create melodies and formulate words surrounding those melodies. He has over 500 poems and songs written. He has been writing poetry since he was 13 and has about 23 poems that have been published nationwide.  One of his poems (Awaiting)  took him third place in an all age category national poetry contest  and has recently been published one the first page of a hard bound book titled "A Surrender To The Moon". He has 51 songs that are registered with the Library Of Congress and preparing to start work on his fifth CD.

Mr. Sanderson has played and entertained people in 39 States as well as Puerto Rico, South America, England, Australia and Singapore. At 23 years old he was noted for his abilities and met with President Jimmy Carter, J.B.Hunt and the governor of Djakarta. He has chosen Chicago as his home and has played in many of the fine establishments around the Windy City; Bookers Backyard (now City Limits), Where Else?, The Blues Club, Blues Etc., North Beach, Arts Gallery Cabaret, 602 North, Sammy Ks’, Bungalow Joe's, Ditka's 46 Zone,  and T. Patrick Murphy’s are but a few.

While recording, he became friends with producer Eddie Matthews, who was also performing the majority of lead guitar and working with Steve arranging the CD compilations. Eddie told him he would continue to perform leads on his CDs' but that Steve needed to acquire other musicians and form a band to be able to bring his music to the masses. 

This early association leads to the birth of the band known as "The Solicitors”.     :)