Dave Specter

   
Artist: Dave Specter

   Genre(s): 
Blues
   

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Discography:


   
 Speculatin'

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Tracks: 13


   
 Left turn on blue

   Year:    
Tracks: 13

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In a comparatively short timeframe, Chicago guitar player Dave Specter has launch his way onto the blues equivalent of the fast track. Just o'er a decennary agone, the eminent guitar player with the cautiously coiffed hair first made his presence felt as a good-natured chucker-out at B.L.U.E.S., a Windy City blue devils mecca. Now, he's got six acclaimed albums in the Delmark catalogue, every one a solid, challenging ruffle of vapors (Phantom lists influences including T-Bone Walker, Pee Wee Crayton, Magic Sam, and Otis Rush) and idle words (Kenny Burrell's some other of his main work force).


The native of Chicago's Northwest position didn't even grab a guitar until he was 18 eld old, divine by his harp-blowing senior brother Howard. While working at Jazz Record Mart and in the merchant vessels section at Delmark he took guitar lessons from Sunnyland Slim's former guitar player Steve Freund. Once he gained some skills, Freund set him up with legendary drummer Sam Lay and Howlin Wolf's guitar histrion Hubert Sumlin for a circuit. At this time he was too working at B.L.U.E.S., devising valuable contacts on the job that light-emitting diode to sideman gigs with Johnny Littlejohn, Son Seals, and the Legendary Blues Band ahead he assembled his have getup, the Bluebirds, in 1989.


Since Specter doesn't sing, he recruited deep-voiced balladeer Barkin' Bill Smith as his first vocaliser. The two shared the spotlight on Specter's tempting 1991 Delmark debut, Bluebird Blues. After Smith deceased, Specter latched on to some other West position veteran soldier, Jesse Fortune, patronage the vocaliser on his 1993 Delmark set Fortune Tellin' Man. Dazzling harper Tad Robinson took o'er front duties for the Bluebirds' 1994 disk Blueplicity and Live in Europe the next year. California harpman Lynwood Slim became the band's house physician vocaliser when Robinson left hand.


Malarkey is development increasingly big in Specter's evolving guitar onrush. He imported legendary jazz organist Brother Jack McDuff to put up a Hammond B-3 shock absorber for his 1996 Delmark throw Left hand Turn on Blue. In 1998 he returned with a new vocaliser, Lenny Lynn, and a new record for Delmark, Blue devils Spoken Here.


For 2000's Speculatin' Spector did aside with vocals and cut 13 instrumentals.


Squeezing shop European tours in betwixt a myriad of local gigs, Specter wears his love for swinging blues tradition on his sleeve -- and it fits him well.