Blktop Project first started as a musical experiment when skateboard magazine Slap organized a tour in the summer of 2002 for professional skateboarders and musicians Ray Barbee, Tommy Guerrero and Matt Rodriguez. The tour took them on the route of the legendary Blues Highway, U.S. Route 61, from Chicago to New Orleans, dividing their time on the road between skating and recording improvised music sessions. In 2005 another legendary skater & musician, Chuck Treece (McRad), joined on drums. The group released two albums, Blktop Project (2007) and Lane Change (2009). Having previously toured as Tommy Guerrero’s bassist on a 2014 Europe and Japan tour, Josh Lippi (Josh Lippi & The Overtimers) was invited to Ruminator Audio in San Francisco in January 2016 for a free-flow live-style recording session with Blktop Project. The result of that session was Blktop Project’s Concrete Jungle album, which was supported by a tour of Japan later in 2016, with Lippi as a new member of the project. Concrete Jungle was released on Tommy Guerrero’s Too Good Records in the US, and RUSH Productions in Japan.