Daves New DVDDave Specter "Live in Chicago" Now available on DVD and CD!
















Dave Specter & Steve Freund's new album, "Is What It Is," now available on Delmark Records!

Press release:    PDF Format      HTML Format

 

Listen to RealAudio samples of some new tracks!

-My Little Playhouse
-Is What It Is
-People Get Ready
-While My Guitar Gently Weeps
-Albatross
-Loan A Helping Hand
-Riverside Ride

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2007 Highlights included Specter returning to Hawaii and performing at Wiamea Falls Park and the Red Elephant with The Dynamic Shuffle Kings.

Specter hosted the jam stage at the Chicago Blues Festival for the second consecutive year performing with many special guests including Steve Freund, Kenny Smith, Aron Burton, Eb Davis & Harlan Terson.

Specter performed with Robert Cray at The College of DuPage in Illinois and returned to Mexico performing in Puebla with the Blues Divas featuring Katherine Davis, Sharon Lewis and Peaches Staten.
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2006 Highlights included 2 tours of Mexico with appearances at The 10th Mexico City Blues Festival and the Ruta 61 blues club.

Specter also returned to Switzerland where he performed at the Geneva Blues Summit with R&B caravan, Lurrie Bell and Sugar Ray & the Bluetones

Specter hosted the jam stage at The Chicago Blues Festival performing with many special guests including Calvin "Fuzz Jones, Willie "Big Eyes" Smith, Aron Burton an many others.

Specter also produced and performed at the Weber Grill Blues & BBQ Festival in Chicago with Tad Robinson, Koko Taylor & Lonnie Brooks.
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2005 Highlights included a performance at The Geneva Blues Summit in Switzerland w/ Steve Freund, Harlan Terson & Mike Schlick.
Click on link for photos and video footage.

Specter and Freund also performed at the 2005 San Francisco Blues Festival with special guests Ken Saydak and Shirley Johnson.

2005 also saw Dave touring London and Southern England w/ The Daniel Smith Blues Band.

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Dave's July 4th show at Fitzgerald's with Lurrie Bell named to WXRT Chicago's 5 best blues concerts of 2004.

In October 2004 Dave performed 2 weeks at The Lionel Hampton Room in Le Meridian Etoile in Paris, France w/ Jimmy Burns, Rob Waters, Marty Binder & Nora Jean Bruso

In January 2004 Dave Specter toured England with top British blues band Sonny Black and the Dukes (click on the picture for a larger view).

Dave and Sonny were invited to perform at the BBC London Studios and were interviewed on the Paul Jones national blues radio show. You can listen to the show in it's entirety by clicking on these links:

Part One          Part Two      (requires RealAudio Player)

Click me for a larger view!The Dave Specter "Hammond Organ Summit" with Rob Waters, Chris Foreman, John Brumbach and Mike Schlick at the 2001 Chicago Blues Festival in June was a huge success! Thanks to all of those who attended.

Dave, Rob Waters & Marty Binder also performed at the Best Buy stage at both the 2002 & 2003 Chicago Blues Festivals.

(Click on the above photo for a more detailed picture!)

The June 2003 European tour with B.B & the BluesShacks was a great success.  Highlights included performances in the Swiss Alps, Luxembourg and Germany.

In March 2003, Dave hit the West Coast and performed 5 shows with fellow Delmark recording artist Steve Freund and his band.
Highlights included a sold out show at San Francisco's Biscuits & Blues nightclub and a performance in Cotati, CA for the Sonoma County Blues Society where Joe Louis Walker and Howie Specter sat in with the band.

In May 2002, Dave along with Tad Robinson, Rob Waters, Harlan Terson and Marty Binder performed at the Electric Factory in Philadelphia at a benefit concert for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, sponsored by Forest Pharmaceuticals.  Also performing were Keb Mo' and Kenny Wayne Sheperd

In May 2001, Dave along with Tad Robinson, Rob Waters, Harlan Terson and Marty Binder performed at the House of Blues in New Orleans at a benifit concert for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, sponsored by Forest Pharmaceuticals. Also performing on the bill were Dr. John and C.J. Chenier.


Now available: 

-Steve Freund's latest Delmark CD "I'll Be Your Mule." Produced by Dave Specter who also plays guitar on two tracks.

- Delmark Records 50th Anniversary Blues & Jazz Boxed Sets & DVD
featuring Dave Specter's "Blues A-La King" & "Left Turn on Blue".

- Dave Hannon & Band: "Blues Canon" featuring Specter and singer/songwriter/blues harpist Dave Hannon on his debut disc.
Also featuring Tom West on piano/organ (Peter Wolf, Susan Tedeschi)
Marty Binder & Harlan Terson.

In the Studio:

-June 2004: Dave Specter & Steve Freund record a new Delmark CD!
"Is What It Is" Release Date: Nov. 16th, 2004.

Featuring 6 vocal and 6 instrumental tracks including covers of Albatross, People Get Ready, Loan a Helping Hand,  Rollin' Man along with Specter and Freund originals.
With Rob Waters, Harlan Terson, Marty Binder and special guests: Barrelhouse Chuck & Mark Hummel.

-June 2004: Dave to record 2 tracks with vocalist Nora Jean Bruso for Severn Records.
"Going Back To Mississippi" Now Available on CD!


-Dave appears on the upcoming Joel Frankel children's CD:
"Ship of Chocolate Chips", playing guitar on "I Get the Blues When I Lose My Shoes".
Legendary Chess Records session musician, Morris Jennings plays drums on the CD.

 Dave Specter's all instrumental Delmark release: Speculatin' Click for more information.