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Gus Gustafson

"It's All Good!!!"

About Me

From 2003 thru the end of 2006, I was living a dream, owning and running a coffeehouse in Northeast Texas with a great partner. The fun part was nurturing local musical talent, booking great up-and-coming artists on our stage---not to mention playing myself. Open microphone nights led to songwriter competitions and I was even able to do some writing during all this, putting a demo-CD together--"Black & Blue" [mainly songs relating to addictions & recovery...You can listen to the songs on the CD at www.buymusicdirect.com under the "Americana" category]. It was great fun, and I had wonderful support from my musical friends, who make Texas their home. We had to shut down operations of the coffeehouse- [still staying in touch through www.myspace.com/thecupmusic ]---and I took on the Executive Director's position of the Chamber of Commerce in Camp County, which led to a job with the City of Pittsburg doing Economic/Community Development & Historic Mainstreet! Things are really happening in East Texas!---Gus

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 6/23/2006
Band Website: myspace.com/thecupmusic
Band Members:Gus Gustafson; guitar/vocals/harmonica

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Influences: 70s music mainly...artists like Bob Dylan, Bob Seger, Van Morrison, Neil Diamond, Tom Petty, The Eagles, Jackson Browne, The Beatles, The Allman Brothers, James Taylor, Eric Clapton, Randy Newman, Steve Earle, Robert Johnson, Cooley "Coolwater" Pope, Jim "Blind Lemon Pie" Cobb, Doug "bad finger" Stanley, 'Wierd' Al Yankovich and many, many more that just don't come to mind right now...
Sounds Like: Combination of the main influences
Record Label: Indie www.buymusicdirect.com
Type of Label: None

My Blog

No more confusion

Well, the confusion is over!  Springtime led to the Chamber of Commerce position, which has led to a job with the City---EDC!  I got to organize my first festival---Chickfest---which came &a...
Posted by Gus Gustafson on Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:53:00 PST

Confusion

Well, once again I find myself confused about what should be next on this journey...Mom pulled through her surgery miraculously, so I quit my temp job at Ford Motor Co. in Motown and headed back to Te...
Posted by Gus Gustafson on Wed, 25 Apr 2007 01:14:00 PST

Mom's cancer battle & success story

Well, mom has done it again!! She had surgery on Friday to remove a football-sized cancerous tumor that was causing big trouble...Amazingly, at age 81, she's making all the doctors smile with joy at h...
Posted by Gus Gustafson on Sat, 03 Mar 2007 01:16:00 PST

www.buymusicdirect.com

If you'd like to hear some of the other tunes, go to www.buymusicdirect.com Thanks for listening, and I'll continue to listen, too!...
Posted by Gus Gustafson on Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:37:00 PST

Music and Songwriting

Down here in Texas, enjoying my journey, gettin' older and hopefully wiser...It's funny, but I was so wrapped up with life's hustle, very little inspiration to write original music showed up---it was ...
Posted by Gus Gustafson on Tue, 24 Oct 2006 01:04:00 PST