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dave specter

11/13/2019

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Dave Specter (from the album Blues from the Inside Out available on Delmark Records)
Dave Specter does not have the answers though he happily shares possibilities on his recent release, Blues from the Inside Out. The title track remembers past hurdles while Dave Specter leads a path towards the brighter light of a better day with the optimism of his words and the Blues of his guitar. Dave’s guitar weaves the Blues into a uptown sound with “Soul Drop” as Blues from the Inside Out heads down the Mississippi River on a New Orleans groove for “Ponchatoula Way”, spreads late night noir on the groove of “Minor Shout”, and casts a Dixieland vibe over the percussive rattle of “Opposites Attract”.
 
Activism sparked the songwriting of Dave Specter, Mavis Staples’ music a force behind his tune “March Through the Darkness”, the Chicago Bluesman feeling that ‘what she has sung about over her career is so important. There’s alot of darkness that we are living through and we’ve got to get through it. It’s not what this country stands for regardless of your political party. I like the idea of going high when they go low, but sometimes when a bully confronts you, you gotta stand up and speak out’. His own politics take a stand when Dave Specter addresses the times head on in the boogie of “How Low Can One Man Go” as he subtly states a warning with “Wave’s Gonna Come”. Dave Specter welcomes friends into the musical world of Blues from the Inside Out with guests Jorma Kaukonen (solo/Hot Tuna/Jefferson Airplane) and Brother John Kattke while he give thanks to the music that brought him to the party with “Blues Ain’t Nothin’”, laying out a dance groove in the funky wiggle of “Sanctifunkious” and drawing a line with “Asking for a Friend”.
 
Listen and buy the music of Dave Specter from AMAZON
 
https://www.davespecter.com/
 

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