look up “Blues” in the dictionary. He couldn’t find anything and says he has been looking ever since.
He lived fast for a while. He partied at Studio 54. He learned how to smuggle guitars to London and turn a profit. He was living two doors down from Sid Vicious at The Hotel Chelsea the night Nancy was killed. He took a Concord to Paris to ask his girlfriend to marry him under the Eiffel Tower and she said no.
The same girlfriend later died in his arms of a drug overdose. Fast living turned into barely living. Walking the streets of NYC all night and sleeping in a few hallways was a common occurrence after being locked out of hotel rooms. At a low point he went to a Gypsy in Times Square for advice. She wouldn’t take his $5 and told him he had no future.
He wound up in prison where, he will tell you, he was in three fights and won all but two. He was taken in a body bag to a hospital and when he was being officially pronounced dead from an OD, they found a heartbeat. He has survived car crashes, guns being drawn on him, motorcycle accidents and will tell you that it is very
hard to kill him. He finally kicked heroin in a New York jail cell. Today, he is on his fourth wife and has been a millionaire and bankrupt, twice.
All that experience can be heard on his new album Bluesman From Jupiter, 10 original tracks that cover it all, from the high times to the rocks, from boogie to the blues. This is a man who has paid his dues and then
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Tracklist: 1. Bluesman From Jupiter 2:08 Website: www.facebook.com/dennisgoddard |
Credits: All songs written by Dennis Spencer Goddard except Track 10, written by Dennis Spencer Goddard and Bobby Warren |
Frank Roszak
KBA Recipient 2014 PUBLICIST
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