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Mike Olson was born in Bellview Washington in 1966. He grew up all over the Northwest, anywhere up in down I5 or 405 from Portland to Seattle to Missoula to Alaska, and lived in over 50 diffrent places.
He first started playing music when he was 13-years-old living in Auburen, Washington, wrighting music and songs from a guitar he used to take from his sisters room when she wasn't home. Then he would polish it back up and return it to her room before she came home.
He moved to Alaska in 1984 when he was 18-years-old, played in a couple of little bands just for fun. He started going to open mics, doing alot of kariokie, getting used to singing in front of people, and started playing some little one man shows in the valley,and sitting in with some bands like the Ken Peltier Band and the Keith Junot's Band.
He joined a band in the Valley, with a couple of guy's, Randy on the harp, Tom Emblem (a.k.a. tre) on drums, and Johnny Wright on bass and lead guitar. They had diffrent ideas so they split after a couple of gigs. Tom and Mike formed a band with Butch Porter, then reformed the band again, now play with Alison King, Steve Quirk (lead guitar), and Terry Kelly (drummer). He's in the studio now recording his first CD with Stu Schulman, Dobro and a steel guitar player.
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