My Deep Blues Manifesto

Attention Deep Blues bands, acts and fans. I have that bug and am loud and obnoxious enough to preach the Deep Blues gospel to any and all who will listen.

I have nothing but respect for my predecessors Robert Mugge and Robert Palmer (not that Robert Palmer) not to mention Chris Johnson, Roger Stolle, and the many other supporters who have proceeded me. I am clearly not inventing a new wheel, just trying to help keep that wheel going forward (especially in this not-so-receptive New England market).

If you are still reading, here is my ‘Deep Blues Promotion Manifesto’

Everything under the ‘Deep Blues’ genre to the BBBBBQ Blog will not receive a stellar review.

• If I don’t like the material, I’ll tell you why
• Sorry, instead of “keeping the blues alive mantra” I only want to keep good blues alive

I have no initial intentions of making money off of your music.

• I do this for the passion of the music and the passion for cramming my musical opinion down the throat of some ‘Ernie and the Automatics’ fans
• And, it is your music

Every CD issued to the Boston Blues Brews and BBQ blog will be treated with the utmost respect

• All disks issued to the BBBBBQ will be reviewed.
• The review will be first offered to the Boston Blues Society
• If the BBS does not pick up the review, reviews will be published on the BBBBBQ Blog
• All disks offered up to the BBBBQ Blog will be offered up to potential ‘Deep Blues’ fans

So if this is of interest to any fans, bands, or labels though I am a somewhat shadowy and sometimes drunken figure I am not a hard man to find.

Best,

Georgetown Fats

More from Scott Iwasaki

This guy is rapidly becoming my favorite Music Critic.....

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Mr. Georgetown Fats.
Thanks for emailing back. For some reason my replies kept getting kicked back. So I posted on the site.
And, yes, it seems the Grammys are both — complements and indictments — these days.
I wish my job would let me listen to music I want to, rather than the stuff I have to.
I hope all is well. And I can tell you are beginning to become unhinged. But it’s for the good fight, right?
Thanks for your time as well. And for the record, I don’t humor people who have concerns.
Peace.
Scott Iwasaki

Just because I need to get the last word - All Ernie all the time

Scott,

Thanks for your reply. I stand corrected.

Though I find the music to be nothing but pop rock pabulum for the great unwashed, you did in fact term the music "blues-based rock". My apologies.

We are in agreement though, this CD could in fact win a Grammy, I am just not sure that is a compliment to the music or an indictment of what passes for quality music.

Can you tell I am beginning to become unhinged from Mr. Boch's constant marketing campaign for this ego trip?

Thanks for your time and for humoring me.

Respectfully,
Georgetown Fats

Reply from Scott Iwasaki

It seems while I was in the process of spewing some venom, I got some of my facts wrong....

Kudos for the reply and correction. I may not agree with him, but Scott Iwasaki does earn some respect.

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Greetings Mr. Georgetown Fats,
Thank you for your email. It’s nice to know someone is reading, even way out on the East Coast.

I see that you have an issue whether or not Ernie & the Automatics is blues rock.

In my story, I didn’t call the music “blues rock.” It was Billboard Magazine that catagorized and charted the album a blues album. I called it a “blues-based rock album.”

That may be a no-brainer, because the classic-rock sound has a base in the blues.

I hope that clears some things up.
Take care.
Scott IwasakiDeseret News music editor30 E. 100 SouthSalt Lake City, Utah 84110