Musician and music historian Peter Blecha has researched the Northwestas music for over two decades. As senior curator with Seattleas Experience Music Project (EMP), he developed such exhibits as the Northwest Passage local history gallery and the Jimi Hendrix gallery. Blecha has been acknowledged as athe premier expert in his chosen fielda and aSeattleas Curator of Rock & Rolla (Seattle Weekly, 1988), athe leading expert on Northwest musica (Vintage Guitar, 2000), and even athe Indiana Jones of Rock ana Rolla (The Rocket, 2000).