Hello to all of you, the fans of The Man himself
Now, let me tell you about my story finding the music of Chris Rea.
Now you must understand that I´m late starter with music, I was around thirteen when it came important to me. Anyhow here´s my story.
We go way back to the year 1994-1995, I can´t say the specific month so I don´t know which year it is but anyway. I recall coming back to home from school and I found a new casette lying on the table which has came from music club via post. This casette was my stepfathers (RIP 1998) and the casette was The Best of Chris Rea. I looked it for awhile and thought what kind of a bullshit music this is (yeah, that was my first reaction before hearing it) Well, then I thought to listen it. I used headphones for some reason and I sit down front of the bookshell. As everyone can now The Road To Hell part 2 is the first track on that Best Of album. The song started and at the same time some kind of a thing snapped inside of me as the song moved on. I haven´t heard anything like that before (I did listen all that euro tecnho bullshit before that). I actually listenned the whole album that time and when the last song was over I was a changed man. I started to listen that casette every now and then and I also started to check other albums which my stepfather had. For example I found album The Road To Hell and also some other artists and bands like CCR etc. Some time later I started to collect that kind of music, I also got my first Chris Rea cd which was Espresso Logic. Blues music started to interest me in 1997-1998 and this new course in Chris Rea music was actually great for me.
I have to thank my stepfather to change my musical point of view. And I did it, I bought to him concert ticket to see John Fogerty for the first time in Finland (1997)
Still I haven´t seen The Man himself on live, I wonder when he´s coming to Finland???
Anyhow, let´s wait that Blue Guitars
Mr_Blues from Finland