David Bromberg
Doors 7pm Show 8pm
$30 Flat All Ages
(Tickets On-Sale Tue. 5/15 at 5pm)
For
Americana godfather David Bromberg, it all began with the blues. His
incredible journey spans five-and-a-half decades, and includes - but is
not limited to - adventures with Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jerry
Garcia, and music and life lessons from seminal blues guitarist Reverend
Gary Davis, who claimed the young Bromberg as a son. A musician's
musician, Bromberg's mastery of several stringed instruments (guitar,
fiddle, Dobro, mandolin), and multiple styles is legendary, leading Dr.
John to declare him an American icon. In producing John Hartford's
hugely influential Aereo-Plain LP, Bromberg even co-invented a genre:
Newgrass. Add in a period of self-imposed exile from his passion
(1980-2002), during which he became a renowned violin expert, and
Wilmington, Delaware's cultural ambassador; top that off with a
triumphant return to music-making, and you have an amazing tale leading
back to one place: the blues.
Now,
with The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues, his first
release for Red House Records, Bromberg and multi-Grammy-winning
producer/accompanist Larry Campbell (Dylan, Levon Helm, Paul Simon)
focus on the music David discovered in high school, when, circa late
50s, he was introduced to a friend's dad's collection of blues 78s. He'd
only just taken up guitar as a means to pass the time while in bed with
the measles. "I loved those 78s so much," says David, "I taped them on a
portable reel-to-reel, so I could listen at home and learn." That love
is evident in The Blues, the Whole Blues and Nothing But the Blues. The
album is both blues primer and an opportunity to witness a master
embracing this distinctly American music with passion and grace.
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