Dave Specter - Live at SPACE (2025) [Official Digital Download]

Born in Chicago’s Northwest Side, in 1963, guitarist Dave Specter began to learn to play the guitar at the age of eighteen. His teacher was Steve Freund, who taught Specter between the latter’s duties at the Jazz Record Mart and Delmark Records. Freund ultimately organized a concert tour for Specter alongside Sam Lay and Hubert Sumlin. Contacts made while working at B.L.U.E.S. nightclub secured gigs as a sideman to Johnny Littlejohn, Son Seals, the Legendary Blues Band, Buddy Guy, Junior Wells, Otis Rush, and Robert Lockwood Jr.. Specter appears on over forty albums as guitarist or producer. By 1989 Specter had organized his own backing band, known as the Bluebirds. By 1998 Specter had released six albums on the Delmark imprint, the first being 1991’s “Bluebird Blues”. His influences were T-Bone Walker, Pee Wee Crayton, Magic Sam, Otis Rush, and jazz guitarist Kenny Burrell.

Specter has twelve previous albums on Delmark including 2004’s “Is What It Is” recorded with Freund and Barrelhouse Chuck; 2008’s CD/DVD “Live In Chicago” recorded with Jimmy Johnson, Tad Robinson, and Sharon Lewis; and 2014’s “Message In Blue” recorded with Otis Clay. His last studio album was 2019’s “Blues From the Inside Out. In 2021 Delmark released “Six String Soul” a thirty year retrospective. The band on this new album “Live At Space” includes Specter, guitar and vocals; Brother John Kattke, organ, piano, and backing vocals; Rodrigo Mantovani, bass; and Marty Binder, drums. Included are seven originals and six selected covers.

A Rhumba beat opens “Rumba & Tonic”, an original instrumental, with some Hammond organ and piano from Kattke, while the rhythm section lays down the strong founation. “Alley Walk” is another instrumental, this time a walkin’ blues with some blistering guitar. On “Homework” was originally recorded by Otis Rush in 1962, “I must be a fool waistin’ my time going to school, I can’t do my homework anymore…oh, baby, what can I do, I’m going around in circles, what can I do…I can’t do my homework any more”.

TRACKLIST

1. Dave Specter - Rumba & Tonic (Live)
2. Dave Specter - Alley Walk (Live)
3. Dave Specter - Homework (Live)
4. Dave Specter - Blues From The Inside Out (Live)
5. Dave Specter - On Your Way Down (Live)
6. Dave Specter - March Through The Darkness (Live)
7. Dave Specter - Chicago Style (Live)
8. Dave Specter - Same Old Blues (Live)
9. Dave Specter - The Stinger (Live)
10. Dave Specter - Deep Elem Blues (Live)
11. Dave Specter - Bluebird Blues (Live)
12. Dave Specter - Ponchatoula Way (Live)
13. Dave Specter - Ridin' High (Live)



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