Bluesman Claude Hay on loops and life on the road

Australian bluesman Claude Hay is a one-man band. Using an impressive array of looping pedals, as well as a double-necked combination bass and guitar, he creates funky roots numbers that appeal as much to the jam band kids in patchwork pants and peasant shirts as it does the middle-aged white dudes in jeans and polo shirts you see at blues fests. He’s in the midst of his first full-blown tour of the United States right now, in support of his most recent album, Deep-Fried Satisfied, and it stops at RecordBar tomorrow, August 12. We spoke with Hay by phone from Los Angeles about the tour and his onstage methodology.