| Memorial
Sean Costello LP Due September 29 |
 Landslide
Records on September 29 will release Sean’s Blues, a 20-track
memorial retrospective collection saluting the late Blues guitarist
and singer Sean Costello culled from his three commercial album releases
from 1996 through 2001, as well as previously unreleased tracks including
three live songs.
Sean Costello was already a Blues guitar prodigy when, at age fifteen,
he won the 1994 Blues Talent Contest sponsored by the Memphis Beale
Street Blues Society and later competed in the National Blues Talent
Competition which also featured Susan Tedeschi. The two met up again
in 1997 and began doing shows together – first out of Boston
and later Atlanta. Costello played lead guitar on Tedeschi’s
best selling CD, Just Won’t Burn, while she participated in
1998 sessions with his band, two tracks of which are represented on
Sean’s Blues.
Throughout the twenty tracks on Sean’s Blues, Costello is backed
by his band that was clearly in precise sync with what he wanted to
achieve, both in the studio and in live situations. A telling example
of that are the three live tracks, recorded in Chicago, Illinois and
Marquette, Michigan, which show a band in lockstep with its leader
In 2002, Blues Revue published a cover story on Sean Costello, calling
him “the top contender to be the next blues star…and soon.”
Sean Costello was still headed on that path when he was tragically
taken away from his family, friends and fans at such a young age.
Sean’s Blues is a great reminder of just how special Sean Costello
was and how much great music he left behind as a lasting legacy.
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