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MP3 Doug Crate - Live At the Grand

live with 12 piece back up band including a horn section, percussion, and back up vocals, wrapped around a unique dynamic 12 string style of blues, jazz, and rock music that tore the house down.

12 MP3 Songs
BLUES: Acoustic Blues, JAZZ: Jazz-Rock

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I always saw music as a vehicle for social change. Bob Dylan was the first artist I heard that opened my eyes to the power of folk. The Rolling Stones'' "Street Fighting Man" brought the intensity of rock to my raised fist. The Beatles transformed that raised fist to a sense of solidarity with the human race and the Moody Blues connected it to the universe. The blues from Robert Johnson to Johny Winter, the drive of Santana and the mind blowing sound of Hendrix added to the mystic draw of the guitar. By the time I had become 19, I was on my own in Boston soaking up the pulse of jams with Afro-Cuban conga rhythms and street music. I was going to change the world....remake society....save the planet. I was a star struck teen getting lost in drugs and poverty. I had been drafted and kicked out of the service because I started an anti-war paper with a friend and they told me I was not adaptable to military service. I became politicized by that and while in Boston, hung out with other radicals...Marxist Leninist SDSers, Black Panthers and we were taking it to the streets. I went to Washington and got gassed, got kicked out of Arlington Cemetery for blowing taps, had a sit in in a Senators office trying to get him to sign the people''s peace treaty with Vietnam. I played my music everywhere......and then one day......I read On Walden Pond by Thoreau and I knew it was time to get out of the city and go back to the land. I connected with a few other escapes from "the mainstream" and built a cabin...no electricity and no running water. I played music in local bars around the state of Maine and eventually raised a family on a back-to-the-land farmstead. After 20 years of playing in the bars, I realized that it was a job like any job and decided the booze and drugs and second hand smoke was killing me and it seemed the music scene had changed. So I went back to school, became a social worker working with homeless mentally ill and tried to bring my music to another level. What you hear on this CD is the end product of 2years organizing musicians, putting together music and horn charts and reaching for that dream of communicating my hopes and visions. I hope you take the time to really listen....I hope it means something to you.
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