Formed in New Orleans in the summer of 2015, The Saint Roch Syncopators includes Ryan Robertson on trumpet, Brandon Brunious on banjo, Scotty Yost on trombone and Ed Doskey on sousaphone.The band was formed after Ryan and Brandon became while playing together with the Black Dragons on Frenchmen Street. Both originally from Sacramento, California, Scotty and Ryan connected through the Sacramento Jazz Society and when Scotty moved to New Orleans, was added to the band. Ed played with Brandon in the Ninth Ward Marching Band and was quickly included into what is now the Saint Roch Syncopators.The name “Saint Roch Syncopators” comes from the neighborhood where both Ryan and Brandon live in New Orleans, Fabourg Saint Roch (pronounced “ SAINT ROCK”). Syncopation is the arrangement of rhythms or accents that forms an off-beat or unexpected sound. What inspired you to make the album?Ryan Robertson: I felt that the band immediately gelled together from the first time we got together. We were all playing on Frenchmen every weekend and really developed a great sound as a unit. I wanted to document it with Working Men.Why did you call the album “Working Men”?Ryan Robertson: It was actually Ed [Doskey]'s idea to name it Working Men. It's named after the tune Working Man Blues by King Oliver.Brandon Brunious: All of us are working musicians, playing every weekend and most weekdays. Ed [Doskey] is a lawyer during the day, and a sousaphone player by night, but the rest of us play music all day and all night. A lot of people don't realize that playing full time really is a full time job.Why did you select these specific songs to record?Ryan Robertson: I wanted to record songs that were more on the obscure side to feature the band's unique sound, like Hot Sausage Rag, which was written by Brandon [Brunious]'s uncle, John Brunious.Brandon Brunious: Yeah, I didn't realize that my uncle John wrote Hot Sausage Rag until Ryan [Robertson] mentioned reading the liner notes on Bye & Bye, and album by my grandfather, Chief John Brunious. I asked my dad, Wendell Brunious, about it and he told me more about it.