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| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- November 9, 2017
CONTACT: Marc Lipkin / Alligator Records / 773-973-7736 x235
EMAIL: publicity@xxxxxxxxx
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CURTIS SALGADO & ALAN HAGER'S ROUGH CUT SET FOR JANUARY 12 RELEASE
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Alligator Records has set a January 12 release date for Rough Cut, the first
collaborative album from award-winning soul, blues and R&B vocalist Curtis
Salgado and renowned guitarist Alan Hager. Salgado's earth-shaking vocals and
forceful harmonica playing have been devastating audiences around the world for
over 30 years. Guitarist Alan Hager has been wowing fellow musicians from his
hometown of Portland, Oregon and beyond for decades. Hager has been jamming
with Salgado since 2003, and joined his band full-time in 2015. Together, the
two friends took time out of their busy touring schedule to record Rough Cut, a
stripped-down album featuring a potent mix of newly written, timeless originals
and carefully chosen blues covers. “We did it for the love of the music,” says
Salgado. “This is where our hearts are. These are deep songs that we love to
play.” Produced by Salgado and Hager, the 13 songs on Rough Cut (including six
originals) range from plaintive to playful. Recorded in one live unrehearsed
take, the original I Will Not Surrender, with its haunting and sparse
soundscape, showcases some of Hager’s strongest guitar work, and some of the
most profoundly emotive vocals Salgado has ever laid down. The canine-lover’s
anthem, I Wish My Dog Would Live Longer (The Greatest Gift), is already a huge
fan favorite. Salgado’s soulful singing and Hager’s elegant slide guitar
playing shine on Elmore James’ You Got To Move and Muddy Waters’ I Can’t Be
Satisfied. “He’s the best player in the business, unlike anybody else,” Salgado
says of Hager. “One reason I made this record was to show him off.”
Salgado and Hager have performed at Portland’s Waterfront Blues Festival, The
Chicago Blues Festival, The Tampa Bay Blues Festival and Canada’s Tremblant
Blues Festival and on the Legendary Blues Cruise. Salgado has also performed at
The San Francisco Blues Festival, Memphis’ Beale Street Music Festival,
Denver’s Mile High Blues Festival, as well as in Canada, England, throughout
Europe, Brazil, Chile, Panama, The Philippines, Thailand and Hong Kong. Blues
Revue, describing Salgado’s performances, declares, “He starts at excellent
before segueing into goose bumps, ecstasy, and finally nirvana.” Salgado
released the first of his 10 solo albums in 1991. He joined Alligator Records
in 2012, debuting with the award-winning, critically acclaimed Soul Shot
followed by The Beautiful Lowdown in 2016. The albums earned Salgado multiple
Blues Music Awards for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year, Soul Blues Male
Artist Of The Year, Soul Blues Album Of The Year and Song Of The Year. NPR
calls him “a blues icon” with a “huge voice." Along with his accolades, Salgado
is no stranger to adversity. During his career, he has overcome multiple health
challenges, battling back from liver cancer in 2006 and lung cancer in 2008 and
2012. In March 2017 he underwent quadruple bypass surgery. Now he is back on
the road, revved up and firing on all cylinders, performing with his band as
well as a duo with Hager. His resilience can be heard – and felt – on I Will
Not Surrender, Rough Cut’s lead track. With Curtis’ inspired singing and
world-class harmonica playing and Alan’s spellbinding guitar, Rough Cut is the
album Salgado and Hager have always wanted to make together – soulful, sparse
and haunting. The music is a moving exploration of the joyful, emotionally
uplifting power of passionately played and soulfully sung acoustic blues.
They’ll perform together as a duo both on their own and during Curtis’ full
band shows, giving their fans a taste of what Alan calls “American Classical
music.” “This type of music moves us the most,” says Salgado. “You believe it
when you hear it.”
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