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Milton Popovic
3+ albums
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Highly regarded blues powerhouse Ana Popovic has recorded Blue Room with Milton Popovic, her father. Produced by Jim Gaines (Luther Alison, Neville Brothers, Eric Gales, Albert Collins, George Thorogood, John Lee Hooker, Stevie Ray Vaughan) the album is out May 19 from artisteXclusive Records, distributed in North America by City Hall. Blue Room is a musical document of Ana’s warm and continuing relationship with her dad, the man who inspired her to take up the blues, and music in general, as her professional career path. The family’s apartment in Belgrade was unlike other Serbian homes when Ana was growing up. It was within that 11th floor flat that an enclave called the “blue room” was the place where blues and rock albums were played and discussed and music was pursued. It was where a father inspired his daughter to take up the guitar and to unlock the blues feeling within her. Ana, widely recognized as a brilliant guitarist and the only woman to participate in the most recent edition of the all star Experience Hendrix Tour, says her father "really made me love the instrument.” While Milton — a photographer and printing technician by trade — never pursued a career in music for himself he, too, was taken at an early age by the power and majesty of the blues. “In the beginning the blues grabbed me with feelings expressed by artists like Arthur Big Boy Crudup, George Smith, Magic Sam, Sunnyland Slim and Lightnin’ Hopkins” he says. Milton, in fact, taught himself E
