Burton is Back

from a nasty bout of the bellyache, we mean NASTY (his latest message at right)

I'm almost back to normal, and I want to thank everyone who sent their well wishes and thoughts while I recovered from emergency appendix surgery. I've returned to playing locally with many bands around the Bay Area: Steve Freund, Wendy, Yoko, Eugene, Mari Mack (recently did a recording with her), Jan Fanucci (also recorded with her this year), Andre Devito, and did the Fillmore Jazz Festival's Bay Area's Ladies of the Blues earlier this month plus a cancer benefit at Yoshi's. Not much music travel out of the area these days; I'm too busy playing locally.

The Saloon benefit for me in June was a success, and I paid off some of my medical bills with the money raised there. Thanks go to a gracious Johnny Nitro for organizing and hosting the benefit. Check out my website's Calendar page for more info about where I am playing.
http://hometown.aol.com/bhwbass/page2.html
 
Thanks again for your support
Burton

July 12, 2005

Here's an update from Burton: ...I took a left hand turn after the Johnny Nitro band and explored new music and an old friendship and took a well-deserved break. I traveled to Austin, TX to record, sing, and play with Eric Blakely, a singer/songwriter originally from the East Bay I played with in the late '70's and early 80's, and hang out in my favorite music city (I have "roots" in Texas; my mother and her family are from there). I helped sing, engineer, and produce Blakely's Still Life at Full Speed, and did CD release parties there and a couple of radio and TV shows. I "toured" behind the CD, going as far as the Isle of Arran in Scotland, after playing in London. Check out his website (www.ericblakely.com) for a free download of Geronimo's Cadillac where I play bass and sing backup.   Currently back home, I'm freelancing: I'm playing with Steve Freund, Daniel Castro, Jan Fanucci, Wendy DeWitt, Eugene Huggins, Yoko Aramichi, Chris Ford, Andy Mazzilli and even did a gig with Andre Devito. Home base (or bass) is The Saloon followed by Lou's. I also lost my beret somewhere and got a haircut. I wrote short, dumb, travel stories for the Yahoo Blues Group website. Anyway, that's what's happening. August 7, 2004