Release: Release: Mick Schaefer - "Back to the Blues"

Release: Mick Schaefer - "Back to the Blues"

"Back to the Blues" has been a long time coming for Portland, Oregon guitarist, singer, songwriter and bandleader Mick Schafer. Like many top-level blues vocalists, Mick started singing as a child in a church choir. He always knew he wanted music to be his life, and at 20, he dropped out of college and headed to Europe, spending the early '70s playing for tips and meals. Back home in the states, though, he wasn't able to make music full time. It was devastating, but he never gave up.

He kept playing at home during the next 20 years as he raised his adopted son Chris. But in 2000, when Chris went into the Navy, Mick went back into professional music, taking a gig fronting the legendary Pacific Northwest roots band Blackberry Jam. In 2017, Mick assembled some of the best
musicians of Portland's talent-saturated blues scene and built his own band, now on new Pacific Northwest blues label Lightning in a Bottle Records.

Tracklist:

1. Over in the Corner 3:45
2. If I Win Blues 5:12
3. Virgin Mary 2:48
4. Rainbow 4:21
5. Husband Blues 4:25
6. Astara 3:18
7. She Woke Up 3:46
8. Don’t Wanna B Judged 3:50
9. Rich Boy 4:20

PUBLICIST
FRANK ROSZAK | www.frankroszaKpromotions.com