Dave Specter - Six String Soul: 30 Years On Delmark

Bitrate: 320K/s
Year: 2021
Time: 71:35 + 72:41
Size: 164,0 MB + 166,6 MB 
Label:  Delmark Records
Styles: Blues/Chicago Blues/ Electric Blues/ Modern Electric Blues
Art: Front 

Tracks Listing:
CD1
 1. Buzz Me - 4:31
 2. Wind Chill - 5:26
 3. Railroad Station - 7:13
 4. Specters Walk - 4:58
 5. Fortune Tellin Man - 4:30
 6. Ridin High - 3:46
 7. Sweet Serenity - 5:21
 8. West Side Stroll - 4:37
 9. Seventy Four - 6:50
10. Can't Stay Here - 5:12
11. Get Back Home - 4:02
12. Unleavened Soul - 5:33
13. St Louis Blues - 5:59
14. You're Gonna Be Sorry - 3:29
CD2
 1. Blues On My Mind - 6:17
 2. Texas Top - 4:41
 3. Riverside Ride - 6:47
 4. Feels So Bad - 6:46
 5. In Too Deep - 5:17
 6. Got To Find A Way - 3:53
 7. This Time I'm Gone For Good - 5:31
 8. Chicago Style - 3:33
 9. The Stinger - 5:16
10. Blues From The Inside Out - 5:15
11. March Through The Darkness - 3:44
12. Sanctifunkious - 5:04
13. The Blues Ain't Nothin - 5:16
14. The Ballad Of George Floyd - 5:14

Delmark celebrates Dave’s 30 years on the label with a stellar line-up of guests including Otis Clay, Jorma Kaukonen, Lurrie Bell, Billy Branch, Ronnie Earl, Jimmy Johnnson & more.Specter’s career has been intertwined with the deepest roots of Chicago blues and Delmark’s rich musical history. This double CD release constitutes a definitive testimony to one of today’s most tasteful and versatile blues artists featuring SpecterDave Specter has earned an international reputation as one of the premier talents on the Chicago music scene. Since 1985 Specter has performed regularly at top Chicago venues in addition to clubs, festivals and concert halls throughout the USA. International performances include: Argentina, Brazil, England, Northern Ireland, Denmark, France, Italy, Spain, The Netherlands, Germany, Norway, Belgium, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Luxembourg, Israel, Canada and Mexico. Specter celebrates 30 years of prolific releases for Delmark Records with a 2-CD retrospective titled Six String Soul, 30 Years on Delmark Records, featuring a myriad of special guests he has collaborated with over the years. Specter’s career has been interwtined with the deepest roots of Chicago blues and Delmark’s rich musical history. This double CD release constitutes a definitive testimony to one of today’s most tasteful and versatile blues artists, featuring Specter in a wide variety of styles. Specter’s single, “The Ballad Of George Floyd,” is now showcased at the Woody Guthrie Center as part of the Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom exhibit in Tulsa alongside Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics. Specter spoke to Rolling Stone about his dark period in songwriting and why he was inspired to write it. Before forming his own band in 1989, Specter toured extensively throughout the U.S. and Europe behind such blues greats as Son Seals, The Legendary Blues Band, Hubert Sumlin, Sam Lay and Steve Freund. Specter has also performed and/or recorded with such artists as Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, Jimmy Rogers, Robert Jr. Lockwood, Jimmy Johnson, Jack McDuff, Johnny Adams, Snooky Pryor, Kim Wilson, Tad Robinson, John Primer, Johnny Littlejohn, B.B. Odom, Mighty Joe Young, Magic Slim, Lonnie Brooks, Ronnie Earl, Otis Clay, Floyd McDaniel, Pinetop Perkins and Jorma Kaukonen. Dave has performed for the President of the United States, the Governor of Illinois and the Mayor of Chicago. Dave appears on over 50 albums and DVDs as a guitarist, bandleader and/or producer, with 12 albums as a leader or co-leader on Delmark Records. Specter appears on compilation albums with artists such as B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, T-Bone Walker, Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana and Mike Bloomfield. Dave was inducted into The Chicago Blues Hall of Fame in 2018. Dave is also partner at one of the Chicago area’s most acclaimed music venues, Evanston SPACE, and he also hosts the podcast, Blues From The Inside Out. in a wide variety of styles, all played with six string soul. 

Six String Soul: 30 Years On Delmark