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Globe and Mail – 2005-08-26

PROFILE: DAVID GOGO

Canada’s top blues guitarist never felt he was at a musical crossroads. ‘I just try to follow my instincts, and lately it’s been working pretty good.’

By BRAD WHEELER

Friday, August 26, 2005 Page R20

As record companies and musicians do their various things, the blues makes its own way. In the early nineties, EMI Records signed a young blues guitarist out of Nanaimo, B.C., and, naturally, strongly suggested that he put out a rock — not a blues — record. David Gogo did as he was instructed, but in an insurgent stroke, included one blues track on the album, B.B. King’s It’s My Own Fault, a slow burner that was a staple of King’s live shows in the sixties. READ MORE

Toronto Star – 2005-08-25

Broader shade of blues

B.C.’s David Gogo widens audience
Joins B.B. King in town Wednesday

GREG QUILL
ENTERTAINMENT COLUMNIST

David Gogo’s “Hey Juanita,” a jaunty and infectious country-soul rocker, may be the breakout cut on his latest album, Vibe.

This is not the first time Nanaimo, B.C. singer/guitarist David Gogo has shared a stage with his idol. On Wednesday night at the Molson Amphitheatre, Gogo opens for B.B. King at the American blues legend’s 80th birthday bash at the Molson Amphitheatre.

“The first time was 15 years ago, when I was 21 and just starting to make a name for myself,” says Gogo, who last year received the CBC Saturday Night Blues Great Canadian Blues Award for a lifetime contribution to the musical genre in Canada, and earlier this year picked up the Maple Blues Guitarist of the Year Award. READ MORE