Blinddog Smokin'

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Blinddog Smokin' Genre Roots Music, Blues, Soul Members Carl Gustafson: Vocals, Harmonica "Chicago" Chuck Gullens: Drums, Vocals Gino Matteo: Guitars, Vocals Morris "Mo" Beeks: Keyboards, Vocals Roland Jr. Bacon: Bass Guitar, Vocals Carl Gustafson: Vocals/Harp Carl considers himself a performer rather than a musician. He says: “My father is a true musician. He can read a Rachmaninoff piano concerto as though it is a grade school primer. I not only don’t read music, I don’t even like listening to it.” Carl prefers silence. “I like quiet repose. Amplifiers have destroyed my hearing anyway. I have lost whole ranges of hearing awareness and my ears ring without mercy.” Strange talk coming from a man who has made his living in music for the last seventeen years, and started his first band in nineteen sixty-four. Carl lives the music life for the adventure, the creativity, and the thrill of those special nights. He explains, “Sometimes we make people forget all their troubles, forget they are human, forget that life is mortal, and they transcend mundane existence into a plane of exhilaration. At these times I want to live forever…” In writing songs, Carl likes the poetry of music, defining an emotion in a minimum of words with a maximum of clarity and the beauty of melody. “If you give yourself to the lyrics of Miss Peggy’s After-hours Pic-a-Rib Café which I wrote about a special lady, a unique place, and a poignant time in my life, you can actually go there with me and sh

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Up From The Tracks

High Steppin'

Start Packin'

More Trouble Than Worth

Ain't from Mississippi

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Live At Slocum's Underground

Miss Blues Sittin' in With Blinddog Smokin'

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Skratch Trax 2000 Vol #2

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Miss Blues Sittin' In With Blinddog Smokin

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Body Droppin' Blues

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Back Of Beyond

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Akella Presents - vol.83 - Country-Blues Modern or Americana (CD2)

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