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Congrats to Curtis Salgado! Awards + Recovery
Congrats to Curtis Salgado! Awards + Recovery
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dchurch
123 posts
May 12, 2017
11:24 PM
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If you haven't herd yet, Curtis Salgado swept all three of his nominations of the 2017 Memphis Blues Music Awards.
It's also great to see that he is recovering well from his recent triple by-pass surgery. There are some nice updates on his Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/CurtisSalgado/
Here's a news piece (below) copied from http://www.oregonmusicnews.com/curtis-salgado-2017-blues-music-awards
Curtis Salgado: ‘Music is saving my life’
“You can’t believe this here life, and all the things I’ve been through.
I’ve been knocked down so many times, hard times ain’t nothing new.
I’ve been cut from stem to stern, sewn back up again.
Lost my brother to the needle, lost my wife to her best friend.
Oh, you’ll never know just what it takes to fill these shoes.
Before you criticize me, walk a mile in my blues.”
– Curtis Salgado’s ‘Walk a Mile in my Blues’
This time the urgent news for Curtis Salgado was really good: The singer nominated for three Blues Music Awards won all three.
Standing in a hospital cafeteria line, Salgado said, “I sure didn’t expect to sweep it. That’s a nice thing to be able to say. ‘I swept the awards.’ ”
Curtis Salgado
Curtis Salgado won three 2017 Blues Music Awards.
Photo by Paul Natkin, provided by Alligator Records.
Salgado was honored for Album Of The Year for “The Beautiful Lowdown,” Soul Blues Artist Of The Year, and Song Of The Year for “Walk A Mile In My Blues.”
Salgado, 64, was unable to attend last night’s Blues Foundation event in Memphis. He is recovering from quadruple bypass surgery on March 10. Instead, Salgado sent a video message that was displayed for the audience at the Cook Convention Center, congratulating all of the nominees and delivering an update on his condition.
“I got the blues because the doctor told me I can’t have pork ribs and hotlinks and sweet potato pie, which I’m pretty sure everybody there was eating,” he said.
“My whole life has changed because of this surgery,” he said in a cellphone interview the following day. It’s a whole new world for me.”
Salgado won his fourth BMA for “Soul Blues Artist of the Year,” and it’s the second time he won for Soul Blues Album. In 2012, he won the BMA for B.B. King Entertainer Of The Year,” the year his tune “20 Years of B.B. King,” was nominated for Best Song.
Of his three 2017 awards, Salgado is especially pleased to win Best Song. He and Michael Finigan wrote the music for “Walk a Mile in My Blues” and he and David Duncan wrote the lyrics.
He said he knew his autobiographic “Walk a Mile in My Blues” was good because of the reception it received during shows and because “It was doing pretty good on Apple Music. We actually got a check, which is rare.”
“I also knew that ’20 Years of B.B. King’ was special and it was nominated but I lost to Kenny Neal,” he said. “(This year’s) award means a lot to me. I love the songwriting craft and I am trying very hard to be a songwriter. I love songwriters and story tellers and I wish to be one. I knew the song was special. But the competition was stiff.”
On Friday, he had just left the hospital’s gym where doctors kicked him off a rowing machine, telling him he needed to wait another week before doing that exercise.
“I wanna get better … and I’m a little impatient, I guess,” said Salgado, who plans to return to the stage on the Fourth of July at the Waterfront Blues Festival in his hometown Portland, Oregon.
The reception for Salgado no doubt will be powerful and heartfelt. The man with a sweet voice is the toughest of fighters. He survived liver cancer in 2006, and lung cancer reappeared in 2012 and part of his lung was removed
“Everybody’s so nice and loving and very giving,” Salgado said. “You know music is saving my life, literally. The fans and my constituents and the people are saving my life. Rhythm and blues is keeping my head above water and the people are helping me stay alive. It’s hard to express. I owe the universe.”
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It's about time I got around to this.
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The Iceman
3110 posts
May 13, 2017
8:48 AM
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If there was a gospel singing category at the IBC, Curtis would no doubt win that as well.
Not many have had the pleasure of hearing him go full blown gospel.
At the Legendary 1998 SPAH Blues Blow Off Show in Detroit, he gospel'ed a few songs during his set. This particular show was opened to the public and very well attended. A contingency of black ladies was in attendance and were blown away by Curtis. I remember they came back on Sunday looking to buy all of his Gospel Recordings - but he doesn't have any.
Truly deserving of all the praise he is receiving now, as well as admiration for his fighting against health related issues ability.
Long Live Curtis
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The Iceman
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Thievin' Heathen
911 posts
May 13, 2017
9:18 AM
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Congratulations. Get well soon.
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