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Home | Delmark News Blog | October 2021: Dave Specter, Bob Stroger, Mud Morganfield, Jose Ramirez, Frank Corpus, Bob Koester & more

October 2021: Dave Specter, Bob Stroger, Mud Morganfield, Jose Ramirez, Frank Corpus, Bob Koester & more

October 10, 2021 Leave a Comment

Dave Specter’s double album SIX STRING SOUL coming October 22

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.

Dave 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.

Cover designed by Al Brandtner. Photo by Hervey Tillis.

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, where the album release party will be held on Tuesday, November 2 at 8:00 pm CDT. He also hosts the podcast, Blues From The Inside Out.

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Bob Stroger & The Headcutters: their album is coming this winter

BOB STROGER SIGNS with Delmark Records! 90-year-old blues master Bob Stroger and Delmark’s President Julia A. Miller signed the contract! The release date for this new album by Bob Stroger & The Headcutters will be announced very soon.

Sir Bob Stroger, Lord of the Blues, has been in Delmark for ever. His musicianship enhances many historical albums, some of the most precious albums on Delmark catalogue, with Lester Davenport, Carey Bell, Lurrie Bell, Tail Dragger, Aaron Moore, James Wheeler, Willie Buck, Detroit Jr., Ken Saydak and more.

For the Headcutters this album will be their Delmark debut. Welcome The Headcutters to the Delmark family…!!!!!

  • Sir Bob & Delmark’s President Julia A. Miller: a very solemn moment!
  • Sir Bob leading the Delmark All Star Band
  • Sir Bob, Julia & Delmark’s A&R “guy” Elbio Barilari
  • Sir Bob Stroger & The Headcutters
  • The Headcutters: Joe Marhofer (harp & vocals), Ricardo Maca (guitar & vocals), Arthur Catuto (bass) & Leandro Cavera (drums).

CLICK! to learn about The Headcutters

Mud Morganfield’s “Praise Him” is HUGE on the radio

Mud Morganfield’s gorgeous fusion of blues and gospel is getting a lot of air play. There is also a new video with lyrics of this great tune by Muddy Water’s eldest son. CLICK! and check it out.

  • Mud wearing Delmark colours…
  • Studebaker John, Mud, Julia, Elbio and Scout, planning a new album..
  • Mud & Muddy (art by Robert Jr. Witehall)
  • Elbio, Julia, Mud
  • Rick Kreher, Elbio, Julia, Mud
Mud Morganfield Band LIVE at Space, Evanston, IL. Video by Elbio Barilari

Jose Ramirez: Delmark sessions & European tour

After his historical Chicago recording sessions with the Delmark All Stars and playing at Rosa’s with Mike Wheeler Band, Jose Ramirez is heading to Europe: Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Spain & Portugal.

  • Jose, Julia, Elbio
  • European tour
  • Jose with The Mike Wheeler Band at Rosa’s, Chicago.
  • Jose and the Delmark All Star Band: Bob Stroger (bass), Billy Flynn (guitar), Jose (vocals & guitar), Willie “The Touch” Hayes & Roosevelt Purifoy.

NOW: VISIT FRANK CORPUS’S DRAWINGS AND PAINTINGS EXHIBIT AT DELMARK GALLERY

Both as Delmark’s shipping manager and Beatles connoisseur Frank Corpus is a very familiar character in Chicago’s music scene. Frank is also an accomplished visual artist and photographer. This show presents over 40 works by Frank, both on paper and on canvass. Hours: 10am to 5pm by appointment. BIG party will be announced soon.

  • “I don’t know, I just started drawing and now it’s all this!”, Frank Says.
  • Huge format acrylic on canvass painting, Frank’s most recent creation. 36″ x 47“

Living Blues Magazine celebrates Bob Koester

REMEMBRING BOB KOESTER – Wonderful 18 (!) page tribute in LIVING BLUES magazine to Delmark and Jazz Record Mart’s founder, the one and only, Bob Koester!

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