Mother's Day ... and other stuff

Well, it is the afternoon of Mother's Day and I have been sitting in front of the computer and the TV (watching mind-numbing stuff ... mostly Myth Busters on DISCOVERY). Have been printing out copies of the book, "LOVE'S STORMS~DESERT RAINS", so that I can bind them and mail them out. I have changed the cover totally, a friend of mine wrote an "introduction", which I started to delete, but he threatened me with bodily harm. I put in a dedication and corrected all the spelling and grammatical errors that I could find.

I had been listening earlier to a CD from 2003 by an old friend .. Chris "Uncle Gus" Gussa from Benson, Arizona .... called HOTTER THAN YASSAR'S HOOEY. He is a GREAT guitar player and has a sexy wife (Heidi) with a great singing voice. The songs are mostly country/blues oriented and most are written by Chris. He produces music for commercials and records other singers. He is also the producer (and best friend) of Baxter Black, the renowned cowboy poet. He was voted the"Best Blues Guitarist in San Diego" in 1966. He has a ranch and recording studio in Benson, AZ ... my old home town ... where he runs his businesses. He also records under the name Chris Brian Gussa and plays flamenco/ surf/ blues/ et al / music.
I would like to copy something from the Internet.

QUOTE:
Back in 1966 in the small town (at that time) of El Cajón, California, Chris Gussa, at the age of sixteen, won a contest for Best Blues Guitarist in San Diego. “I think I won a hundred dollars and got a write up in San Diego Magazine or some such thing”, says Chris.
During or around that time, Chris had been jammin’ with a bunch of young guys at a teenage nightclub called “The Palace” in Mission Beach who called themselves THE IRON BUTTERFLY. They got this “not so appealing” offer to play five nights a week in a seedy little place off of Sunset strip for around fifty dollars a week each and sleep on the floor for free. Most of them quit school and went for it, but Chris stayed behind (mostly because his mother wouldn’t let him quit school) but also because he preferred real genuine Blues to the strange heavy psychedelic stuff they were doing. A few weeks later a talent scout from a “small label” called Capitol Records came in and signed them. The rest is history and “Uncle Gus” was literally left singin’ the Blues.
And sing the Blues he did, playing in Chicago at the age of eighteen and also in practically every state before settling on his ranch in Cochise County Arizona in 1982.
Studio work was always the most satisfying thing to Chris, so after he married his wife, Heidi, who worked with him as rhythm guitarist and vocalist on the road for years, he set up a working studio on his small ranch in Arizona. He was mostly producing jingles and educational movie sound tracks at this time.
It was here that Chris started working with legendary cowboy humorist, BAXTER BLACK. Baxter used to be a regular on the Johnny Carson Show and he is a regular commentator on NPR (National Public Radio). Baxter and “ Uncle Gus” have appeared on PBS TV together and have produced many national radio commercials including Chevy Trucks just lately.
But as the years kept going by, Chris “Uncle Gus” Gussa started missin’ the Blues. He hadn’t done any kind of serious Blues Project in over twenty years.
In the words of Chris, “It was like wakin’ up from a coma or somethin’, ... all of a sudden somethin’ snaps and you say, “I’m a Blues man, I remember now.”
Chris came back, bringing with him a feeling from the past, a time when Blues didn’t mean, “bang on that guitar and scream a lot, you can get away it."
TURN UP THE BLUES-A-LATOR, on Roadcatz Records, consists of 12 original songs.
Most tunes are Chicago Style “movers” and everything on the CD features a powerful electric guitar solo with the exceptions of “Big Juicy Burger Blues” and “What’ll this ol’ Ford do?,” which are acoustic, with story tellin’ and humorous lyrics.

Also from the internet. Please go to -

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=172928