The River (92.5fm) will be featuring the EGB tonight on their Homegrown Artist showcase (That’s 10pm EST)
If you’re in the Boston area, tune in and listen.  If you’re out and about the world, you can listen online HERE. 

We’ve been asked to play for B.B. King again. Hope you guys can make this show at the North Shore Music Theater (Beverly, MA) on Friday November 28th. Get your tickets here.

When I was 13, I used to sit and play my guitar listening to BB King records: For hours I would just get lost in the sounds and try to emulate with my fingers what I heard in my head (as guitarists this is how most of us start out!)
That Was  Then – This  Is Now
In two weeks, the band will open to BB—for the 3^rd time! 
Wow! 
What a world. 
When BB was my age he made almost a dollar a day picking cotton (he started playing his guitar on street corners because he perceived a greater opportunity).
For my generation and for where I lived, there wasn’t much cotton to be picked, so we headed to the fast food chains, gas stations and local grocery stores.  (See below: Me at 17 doing the gas station gig less than a mile from the North Shore Music Theater)

But sometime and somewhere along the line, I got tunnel vision about my music—my craft.  I saw myself doing exactly what I am doing now.  I saw myself on the same stage as he King.  
And I stopped caring about the things I couldn’t control, the outside influences (bad economy, music industry dysfunction) and just focused on the music and the dream.

I had this vision and I’m living it now.

Thanks everyone for being a part of this.  Every time you came out to a show, every time you spent a dollar on a CD, or every time you dropped my name to a friend that you knew would love the music. 
That makes you a part of it. 
E 

 

“Let’s Stay Together” (Al Green)

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