Mike Lundstrom
Saturday, April 23, 2005 - 7 p.m.
$5 cover
Make a reservation for this show by calling (509) 826-5836.
Lundstrom returns to The Breadline Cafe with his eclectic mix of Delta blues, swing, jazz and folk music along with bassman Joe Guimond and percussionist Bradley Scott.
Lundstrom last appeared at The Breadline Cafe in 1996 for the release of his solo compact disc "Please Accept This Simple Song."
Lundstrom began performing as a singer/songwriter/guitarist while in his early teens. At 17, he spent a year basking in Europe before returning to the United States to enroll in college and perform at coffeehouse venues in the Southwest and Midwest.
At age 21, he went on the road with his music, performing six nights a weeks until he began a career in photojournalism.
In 1989 he was forced to abandon the guitar because of an extreme case of tendinitis in his left wrist.
"I remembered how impressed I had been, years before, with Norman Blake's dobro work on the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band Circle album," said Lundstrom. "Even though I could no longer hold the strings down on a guitar I figured I could still play with a steel, so I got myself a dobro (resophonic guitar) and learned to play it."
For a decade he's entertained northcentral Washington audiences, often in collaboration with fingerstyle guitarist Rolf Vegdahl or with Scott.
Lundstrom and Vegdahl released "Christmas gifts: Arrangements for guitar and resophonic guitar" in 1992.
"I'm a singer first and an instrumentalist second," Lundstrom said. "To me, the dobro is primarily an accompanying device. I won't claim to be unique, yet I can't think of any other musicians who utilize the dobro in this manner.
"Jerry Douglas and Bob Brozman are the only players I know who will go in front of an audience solo, and Fred Travers is the only person i know who even attempts to sing and play dobro at the same time," Lundstrom said.
Lundstrom is a four-time winner of the Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival dobro contest, so he's not too shabby with the instrument. He also contributed to the critically acclaimed compilation CD, Resophonics Anonymous (a virtual who's who of Northwest resophonic guitarists. The CD was released in 2000.
Lundstrom also has appeared on "Behind the Barn" with Tab Tabscott in 1996.
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