Music Recommendation: Curtis Salgado & Terry Robb — “If It Ain’t Me”

BRUCE’S RECOMMENDATION OF BANDCAMP MUSIC

Music: “If It Ain’t Me”

Album: HIT IT ‘N QUIT IT

Artist: Curtis Salgado & Terry Robb

Artist Location: Portland, Oregon

Info:

“Terry Robb and I are music lovers. That is to say we respect and are into all music. Both of us have our own bands that play a wide range of styles. But on our off nights we get together and play our first love, the stuff we cut our teeth on. The low-down, stinky, stunky, funky blues.

“We took some of our favorite songs, just went in and beat up on ’em. We moved away from trying to duplicate the old masters. (Look, nobody can do Muddy Waters like Muddy, or Elmore, etc.) Nuff said. Terry played acoustic hollow-body guitar on all cuts, no solid body guitar. None of the songs required more than two takes. The meter might change a little or my harp might be old and play a touch flat, but that is a part of the spontaneity and vibe that this music is about. We just went in and HIT IT ‘N QUIT IT.”

Released January 1, 1997.