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Hailing from Pine Bluff, Arkansas (home to blues legends
Big Bill Broonzy and
Cedell
Davis), Sadler says he picked up a guitar at an early age, because his
piano teacher failed to make any headway with him at all. The choice of
learning to play a musical instrument having 88 keys versus 6 strings
was no contest. “Have you ever tried to tune a piano?”, Dave has been
known to remark. Growing up on the edge of the Delta, blues inspired
music surrounded Sadler. Where a typical teenager might have been found
listening to the latest top 40 rock hit, Dave, a self- taught musician
who plays by ear, would often be found locked away in his room listening
to the likes of B.B. King and
Elmore James, trying to emulate their
playing styles.
“Fourth Street Ruckus” by Dave Sadler is now available on iTunes, CDBaby, www.davesadlermusic.com and other download locations.
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If
you like your blues hard-driving, then you will enjoy guitarist
Dave Sadler’s new single release, “Fourth Street Ruckus”, a
frenetic paced, big blues sound with blistering harmonica and guitar
work accompanied by the precision horn work of Dan Cipriano. Roly Platt,
one of Canada’s premiere diatonic harmonica players teams with Dave on
this title track for the new EP, “Fourth Street Ruckus”, scheduled for
release late 2011. Platt, a Toronto native, has become a sought-after
live and studio musician due to his versatility and skill. Dan Cipriano,
one of the busiest saxophone players in New York, is also no stranger to
the music world having toured or recorded with
