May 2010
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I want to play the Blues in China
After I played the 2007 Notodden festival with Steve Winwood, the lead singer of Goodtime Charlie, a Norwegian R&B band, approached me. I had mentioned to him that I wanted to play in Eastern Europe because of the youthful interest in ‘classical’ blues. He told me that I would enjoy playing in Shanghai of all places! He said that the youth in that city, such as students there numbering in...
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Playing with the Blue Flagships
During my time in Switzerland some years back, while staying by Lake Lucerne (Vierwaldstaettersee), I had the privilege to play with a band called the Blue Flagships led by sax player, Duke Seidmann, who played horn-driven jump/swing music from the late nineteen forties. They were dedicated! The drummer, Peter Mueller was a 30 odd year-old disciple of 50’s Chicago blues drummer, S. P. Leary, and...
Practice at Todd's
Thank you, Todd and Katie, for letting us practice in your basement. — That’s Brett on my left, James on the right and Todd on the drums.
Hello from Detroit!
I’ve been here the last couple of days for some further recording. – Back in January, I recorded 16 tracks here for an upcoming CD or rather towards two CDs.
I’m back to put more music down and thoroughly enjoy working with a great team of musicians: Brett Lucas on acoustic and electric guitar, Todd Glass on drums and James Simonson on bass; Jim Kissling is the sound engineer. — A great...
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A Brazilian Fejoida – the second time was the...
I first went to Brazil in 1975 at the behest of a musician friend, Samuel Halbert, a Texan country singer who was doing missionary work there at the time. We recorded an album together with Os Meninos de Deus called Amor Nunca Falha, and it fared fair. At least, the outstanding track, ‘Eu Vou Seguir’ made it to numero um in Portugal, written and sung by Fernando Adour, the Polydor producer who had...
“Done with Bonaparte!”
A song that moved me very much recently while watching Mark Knopfler and Emmy Lour Harris’ Road Running DVD was ‘Done with Bonaparte’. Beautiful. Then it goes into ‘Romeo and Juliet’. Some special musical moments.