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‘Take a chance’ with the David Bromberg Quartet Carrie Click, Echo Editor
cology at Columbia University, and played the Greenwich Village coffeeDavid Bromberg is a bit perplexed. house circuit. He moved on to be a “I don’t understand that [music] has to be all about sought-after session player. bands or performers in their 20s,” Bromberg said Eventually, he established his own recently, speaking from his home in Delaware. “All of touring band, and developed his own us, as we grow older, still love good music. We love following. to make it and we love to listen to it. We don’t just But in 1980, he shifted gears. disappear.” “I was burnt out,” he said. “For Now 66, this Grammy-nominated musician, singer two years, I wasn’t home for longer and songwriter has played with or been covered by a than two weeks.” dizzying array of top artists. And with 40 years of Fascinated by the violin – “I wantmaking and playing music, he has the virtuosity and ed to be able to identify a violin withexperience that only a master can have. out seeing its label,” he said – he David is performing with his quartet on Saturday, attended a three-year program learnJune 2, at the PAC3 Theater at the Third Street Center ing to make them. in Carbondale (see box). His concert is part of the first Now, decades later, he and his annual Bread and Brew Festival, which is being held wife Nancy Josephson own and at the Third Street Center on both Friday and David Bromberg wth fiddle player Nate Grower, a member of the David operate David Bromberg Fine Violins Bromberg Quartet. David and Nate, along with Mitch Corbin and Butch Saturday, June 1-2. Wilmington, Del., where Amiot, the other two members of the quartet, play at PAC3 in Carbondale in appraises, sells and on June 2. Photo by James Martin Bromberg Many genres, many instruments acquires violins. Bromberg. He credits both Muddy Waters and Doc Eclectic is an apt word to describe David “[The violin shop] allows me to go to another place Watson for inspiring him early on. besides performing,” Bromberg. Don’t try to categorize him; he Still, there’s nothing like performing. The David Bromberg Quartet with David Bromberg, plays it all: blues, rock, folk, “It’s hard to describe what we do live,” he said. “If Mitch Corbin, Butch Amio and Nate Grower American roots, ethnic, country, anything, I’d encourage people to come see us in a Part of the first annual Bread and Brew Festival and bluegrass. live show. Take a chance.” 7 p.m. doors open; 7-9 p.m. beer tasting; 8 p.m. Dan Sheridan He’s a multi-instrumentalist as opens; 9 p.m. David Bromberg Quartet; on Saturday, June 2 PAC3 at the Third Street Center, 520 S. Third St., Carbondale Tickets: General admission: $35/advance, $40 day of show; reserved seating: $45/advance, $50 day of show Info: 925-1663, pac3carbondale.com
well. Known for his guitar virtuosity, he also plays the fiddle, violin, dobro and mandolin. David studied musi-
Bromberg on Dylan, Garcia… and more When asked to describe the following artists, all of whom he has played and collaborated with, David Bromberg had this to say: • Bob Dylan: “Genius.” • Jerry Garcia: “When I was [first starting out] living in New York, there were a bunch of guys who’d sit around playing songs. [Jerry and I] did the same thing, in a similar manner. We had fun together… he played with imagination.” • The Eagles: “Wonderful music; they started off as Linda Rondstadt’s backup band; very kind, very good musicians.” • Widespread Panic: “A jam band with the tightest rhythm section that’s ever existed. That [guitarist] Jimmy Herring…nothing I can say can even begin to do him justice.” • John Prine: “Brilliant; he says a great deal with simplicity.”
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• Phoebe Snow: “A remarkable human being. She lived her life for Valerie [her daughter who was born in 1975 with severe brain damage and died in 2007]. I loved her and she loved me. The night I met her, she chased me out of a coffeehouse/bar in Greenwich Village. She said, ‘Mr. Bromberg, I write songs and I sing.’ I am proud to have known her.” • Doc Watson: “An exact, precise player. He sang with a great deal of warmth.”
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• George Harrison: “He was unaware how good he was. His forte was not improvisation, but because of that, he felt he wasn’t that good. He’d listen to Hendrix and Clapton and that was something he could feel he couldn’t do. But those guys couldn’t create hooks [like George] in a few notes that would brand a song, like the razor in ‘Tax Man.’ And his solos were beautiful.” • John Hiatt: “A generous musician, and one of the most brilliant songwriters.”