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New Dave Specter and Steve Freund CD, "Is What It Is", now available
in stores! Read the press release here: PDF
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New! Boston Herald review
of "Is What It Is" from Feb. 4, 2005!
Chicago
Magazine, Feb. 2005 issue. Full page feature as Dave takes writer
Kevin McKeough on a tour of his favorite Chicago guitar stores.
Downbeat Sept.
2003 Issue: Dave Specter contributes to the Year of the Blues Issue's 50 Greatest
Blues Albums of the Past 50 Years.
Specter's biography
and reviews are listed in The All Music Guide to the Blues, MusicHound Blues -
the Essential Album Guide, The Big Book of Blues and Dave makes a cameo appearance
in Andrew Vachss' crime fiction mystery novel, Safe House.
Links
to some recent articles about Dave Specter and his music:
All
About Jazz (review of Speculatin')
All
About Jazz (Review of Steve Freund's latest album "I'll
Be Your Mule")
Big
City Blues (review of Speculatin')
Blues
Access (review of Speculatin')
Blues
Revue (review of Speculatin')
CDNow.com
(review of Speculatin')
CDNow.com
(obituary notice for Brother Jack McDuff, 2001)
Downbeat (article about Dave Specter)
Guitar
Player (article/interview with Dave Specter)
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin (brief article about Dave)
Honolulu
Star-Bulletin (longer article/interview with Dave)
Living
Blues (review of Speculatin')
Metromix.com
(review of Speculatin' by Dan Kening)
SmittyRay.com
(review of Speculatin')
WBEZ.org
(August 2000 RealAudio interview of Dave Specter on the "848" show" with
Niles Frantz. Dave Specter's portion is toward the end of the half-hour clip.)
Recent press quotes :
"Specter straddles
the line between blues and jazz ...simultaneously sophisticated and raunchy,
and always swinging with lots of feeling." - Jazz Times"Emotion-laden
and incisive, it's Specter's guitar work you'll remember."
-Guitar World
"Specter effortlessly juggles rhythm and
lead guitar, tossing off elegant, precise solos." - Living Blues "Specter's
playing is smooth and soulful....His production work is impeccable." - Blues Revue
"As a guitarist, Dave Specter is right up
there on the main display case with Duke Robillard, Chris Cain, Robben Ford, Doug
MacLeod, and Ronnie Earl." - Cadence "Clearly
in the same league as Duke Robillard, Ronnie Earl, and Anson Funderburgh. - Santa
Cruz Sentinel "Dave Specter's development
over the past few years has been nothing short of astounding. He cut his teeth
working in some pretty rough-and-ready company - Son Seals, Sam Lay, The Legendary
Blues Band - but the style he's developed combines the urban intensity of those
teachers with a sweet jump blues swing that's rare in Chicago today." - Chicago
Reader "Specter is a stylish Stratocaster
star with a deathgrip on classic blues guitar sensibilities." - Pulse "Specter
counts T-Bone Walker, countless Chicago masters, and Kenny Burrell among his influences...but
it's apparent that Specter has also developed his own singular musical voice.
Without question, it's one worth hearing." - Illinois Entertainer "Had
the Berlin Wall not fallen a few years back, this electrifying set by Dave Specter
and his band, recorded in Berlin last year, might have done the trick by encouraging
former East Germans to jump over the wall just to get a listen to Specter and
band's timeless Chicago blues-style sound." - Blues Revue "If
contemporary blues has a fast track, Dave Specter is on it...one of the local
circuit's most tasteful guitarists." - Chicago Tribune |