Sometimes you just get lucky, that's all there is to it. You go to a bar and the band that's playing just blows you away. You'd never heard of them before and you still wouldn't know who they were if you just hadn't happened to decide to go out that night.
Well every so often my wife gets the urge to go out dancing and the hardest part of that is finding music to dance to. She's not interested in going to any of the "dance" clubs with music that will turn your brain into shredded wheat and a night that usually ends in a knife fight out on the street or some other such drunken stupidity.
There aren't many adult bars in Kingston Ontario where we live that have live music you can dance to and where she would feel comfortable with the crowd.
Thankfully there is one and when she phoned that Saturday to find out who was playing she was told it was some blues guy who was really good and who played music that you could dance to.
As I'm not physically able to go dancing I didn't go with her and her friends but I was awake when she came home. Now normally she'll just talk about some amusing incident that happened and than just head for bed, but on this night she couldn't stop talking about the band she had seen.
She'd even gone so far as to ask them for a CD so I could review it for them.
It takes a lot for her to get that excited about some band she's seen in a bar so I was intrigued and picked up the CD to check out the packaging and see if I knew anyone associated with the band. They were out of Toronto, Ontario where I had lived for most of my life so the chances of me knowing them wasn't too far fetched, but in this case I drew a complete blank, with the only connection I was able to make being they occasionally played with a guitarist I knew of, .
So who was this and what made him so good that my wife wouldn't shut up about him and his band's music for a couple hours after coming home from seeing them. Well the easiest way of finding out was to listen to the CD she brought home and check him out for myself.
Blues Ignited by David Rotundo and his band is fourteen tracks of really good, electric blues that you don't expect to hear from a bar band.
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