Joe Galullo - Melody in the Blues

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:1998/2025
Time:40:36 
Size:93,5 MB 
Label:Blue Melody Records Productions/Joe Galullo 
Styles:Blues 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. You Gotta Care About Me - 3:56
 2. Get out of My Head - 3:55
 3. Rainy Sunday Morning - 5:41
 4. Life Without Love - 6:34
 5. Black Day - 3:46
 6. Stay With Me - 5:19
 7. Warm Tender Nest - 4:40
 8. Lonely Woman - 6:41

Joe was born in 1950 in a Milan still torn by the wounds of war. Life in those years was not easy for anyone, and Joe spent a childhood as sad (he lost his father) as it was financially difficult. As in all good blues stories, one day he accidentally found a guitar and fell so in love with it that he taught himself to play. He would later say: "Women have often left me, but my guitar has always remained faithful to me..." He developed a maturity and musical sensitivity that made him a "protagonist" from a very young age. At just thirteen, he won a singing festival for new talents; at fourteen, he joined the Moods, with whom he achieved great success in Lombardy's most important clubs within a few months. At seventeen, he was playing regularly with Toni Dallara and other well-known figures of the time. At eighteen, he decided to leave Italy in order to obtain exemption from military service as an emigrant. He spent many years abroad, particularly in Amsterdam and London; when he returned to Italy, it was only a passing through, a stopover like any other; by then his home had become the world.
Over the years, Joe developed a highly personal style, earning praise from artists including Charlie Musselwhite, Buddy Guy, John Mayall, and others. Like the vast majority of Italian bluesmen, he became more famous abroad than in Italy.
He was thirty-one when, through a series of coincidences, he settled for a while in Bologna, where he became one of the main national blues figures. When he decided to leave Bologna, he left his band to Andy J. Forrest (whom he met by chance in a music shop) who had just arrived in Italy (see interview with Robi Zonca).
The 1980s were a decade filled with important events, such as his friendship with Ermanno Red Costa and the formation of Blues Messenger (he says, "I consider anyone who plays with me a messenger of the Blues..."), with whom he released his first album for Coast To Coast. In the early 1990s, to stay close to his children (Joe has two marriages and five relationships behind him), he decided to "stay" in the Marche region, beginning, with Blues Messenger, a surge in popularity and success.
In 1998, he founded the Blue Melody label to produce "Melody In The Blues," followed in 2004 by "The Blues Is Back!".
In 2003, he was included in two important Italian blues collections: "Maxwell Street" (Blooze People), a compilation dedicated to Guido Toffoletti, and "Sounds Good!" (Crotalo Records).
His repertoire consists exclusively of his own compositions, leaving little or no room for covers.
With a good cup of coffee and my iBook ready to record anything, the interview with one of the most iconic pioneers of Spaghetti Blues begins.

Melody in the Blues