Dave Specter

LIVE DVD/CD Now Available! DAVE SPECTER "LIVE IN CHICAGO" RELEASE DATE: APRIL 22, 2008 ON DELMARK RECORDS. RECORDED AT BUDDY GUY"S LEGENDS AND ROSA'S LOUNGE. WITH SPECIAL GUESTS: JIMMY JOHNSON, TAD ROBINSON & SHARON LEWIS. 4 STAR REVIEW in DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE: August 2008 issue. Further rave reviews online from Billboard, All About Jazz, About.com Blues etc. etc.Guitarist, producer, bandleader and teacher. Native Chicagoan from the smelt-laden shores of Lake Michigan. Frequently tours outside of the geographically challenged Midwest. Recent performances in London, Paris, Geneva, Mexico City, San Francisco, Honolulu, The French Riviera, Basel and Chicago. Recent festival appearances at the Chicago Blues Festival, San Francisco Blues Festival, Basel Blues Festival, Geneva Blues Summit and JVC Jazz Festival Paris. Often seen in the company of a Vibrolux Reverb and numerous guitars with abnormally large frets.Toured, performed and recorded with many legendary bluesmen and jazzmen including Hubert Sumlin, Sam Lay, Son Seals, Pinetop Perkins, Snooky Pryor, The Legendary Blues Band, Brother Jack McDuff, Eric Alexander, Ari Brown, Jimmy Rogers, Lurrie Bell, Steve Freund, Boz Scaggs, Ronnie Earl, Tad Robinson, Kim Wilson, Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, Johnny Adams, and many more...Appears on over 30 CDs - mostly on Delmark Records. Produced recordings for Steve Freund, Lurrie Bell, Floyd McDaniel, Jesse Fortune etc. Appears on compilation CDs with artists such as Eric Clapton, Carlos Santana, Muddy Waters and Junior Wells.Accidentally deleted a large group of friends after hearing that right-wing media hack Rupert Murdoch purchased MySpace for $580 million. Please re-send friends requests...