Mark is a local blues wailer and harmonica ace. Recently saw him perform with WPKN's legendary DJ Mark Naftalin (R&R hall of Famer for his stint in The Butterfield Blues Band). Mark travels with dozens of harps because each is in a different key. Fortunate to see his Sandy Hook fueled rant " Put The Gun Down".
Been looking forward to this one for a while. I told Brooks that his easy going version of Shady Grove is in high rotation in my ears. Solo acoustic and National Steel guitar were effortlessly plucked by this instructional video superstar. Told the crowd that he lived in New Haven as a kid, he thinks he went to ECA ( like me). Based in Georgia, it was a natural fit to play Statesboro Blues. Setlist included some Sister Rosetta Tharp tunes, Kristofferson's No One Wins, a tune he wrote for but wasn't picked by Michael Buble, Rock Me, Gambling Man, Mercury Blues, spoke of a foray into the Smithsonian Folkways archives to study Sittin On Top of the World a tune that can morph from bluegrass to blues, Walk You Off My Mind, closed with Zaretsky on the mighty Hesitation Blues.
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