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Artist: Basile, Al
Title: Me & The Originator
Format: CD
Label: SWEETSPOT RECORD  ( http://www/albasile.com )
Catalog Number:9862
Barcode:669469098623 itemnumber=1000122542
Price: $15.98  (All prices include domestic shipping.)
Genre: BLUES
Release Date: 6/15/2018
Availability: In Stock
Additional Musical Category Notes:
The songs alternate with spoken narrative tracks. 



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Promotional Info
Todd Glazer Promotions will do a 200 station promotion. Mark Pucci Media will do a four month campaign. There will be a release performance of an excerpt of the album in June at the West Chester Poetry Conference.

Me & The Originator is Al Basile fifteenth release on Sweetspot. It's a concept album which tells a story through a hybrid of narration and songs about an imaginary musician who has a career which harbors a dark secret. This CD asks the questions "who makes the song?" and "Who can call a song their own?" - another way of thinking about the history of blues as it has passed down to us latter day interpreters. Produced by Duke Robillard, with the same lineup as on Al's BMA nominated best contemporary blues album Mid-Century Modern in 2016. 200 station national radio promotion by Todd Glazer Promotions. 4 month publicity campaign by Mark Pucci Media. Print ads in the two Living Blues issues surrounding the release date.

Track Listing
 1. 
[2:59] The Trunk One

 2. 
[2:57] Poor Boy's Day Two

 3. 
[1:14] What He Carried Three

 4. 
[3:54] My J-O-B Four

 5. 
[2:09] Useless Good Advice Five

 6. 
[5:43] Lefty's Nine Lessons Six

 7. 
[1:16] Self-Reliance Seven

 8. 
[5:30] She Made Me Believe It Eight

 9. 
[1:05] The Bee's Lot Nine

10. 
[3:33] Here Come Your Trouble Ten

11. 
[1:48] What He Deserved Eleven

12. 
[4:00] I Forgot How to Care Twelve

13. 
[1:26] Learn to Draw! Thirteen

14. 
[5:15] First One to Go Fourteen

15. 
[1:07] Breaking Up is Hard to Do Fifteen

16. 
[3:20] What You Got for Me Sixteen

17. 
[3:19] Who Owns It? Seventeen

18. 
[3:03] All Right Eighteen

19. 
[1:43] Solo Nineteen

20. 
[3:18] A Go of It Twenty

21. 
[1:23] Young and Old Twenty One

22. 
[4:06] So Wrong for So Long Twenty Two

23. 
[1:33] Confessing the Blues Twenty Three

24. 
[4:44] If It Goes, It Goes Twenty Four

25. 
[0:54]  How It Goes Twenty Five

Performers on this Album
Duke Robillard: guitar, all tracks
Al Basile: vocal all tracks, cornet all tracks but 2, and 8
Additional Technical Information Available For This Album
Release Format: CD         
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