Nap "Don't Forget the Blues" Turner Live at City Blues [Live]

Nap "Don't Forget the Blues" Turner Live at City Blues [Live]

Editorial Reviews
<"b00004hypp5540"> Andy Grigg, Real Blues Magazine
Thank God for independent labels and their owners/founders. Given the major multinational record labels' reluctance to support authentic blues artists (a truth allergy?) bluesmen/women are forced to rely on small record labels started up by frustrated fans who decide to take matters into their own hands. Despite the high mortality rate (most labels manage just one release before their demise) there is never a shortage of new hopefuls. The ones that do survive are usually the ones that don't let the threat of financial losses deter them, i.e. "music is art and I'm in it to create great works of art, not because I'm hoping to become a millionaire," (anonymous mental patient). All kidding aside, it's really wonderful when you have labels/owners out there that are more concerned with getting great music/artists on tape despite the ugly financial reality, and their completed projects many times will end up being priceless and timeless creative masterpieces.

<"b00004hypp2999"> About the Artist
Nap "Don't Forget the Blues" Turner has been a mainstay of the Washington music scene for over fifty years. At age 14, he built himself a bass out of an old five gallon Pepsi syrup can and wood floor board and started playing in the clubs along 7th and T streets. He soon turned pro and was a integral part of Washington's thriving jazz community. Nap moved to the front of the bandstand as a vocalist in the sixties. But as a young man, fast living and hard drugs cost him his freedom and nearly... read more

<"b00004hypp4999"> Album Description
Great cool uptown blues and Nap Turner's first cd in his more than 50 years of performing in the DC area