For those unaware, Nola Blue Records is proud to announce the signing of 13-time Blues Music Award winner and international touring artist Curtis Salgado and the just-released Legacy Rewind: Live in ’25 album, a powerful tour de force performance by Salgado and a 15 piece band.

The band in question includes: Keashaun Jones, Margaret Linn and Lindsey Reynolds (backing vocals); Alan Hager and Ben Rice (guitar), John Linn and John Wolcott (bass), Brady Goss (piano), Brian Harris (B3), Gary Harris and Timothy Bryson (saxophones), Dave Mills (trumpet), Lars Campbell (trombone), and Ron Tuttle and Patrick Seals (drums and percussion).

The performance was recorded live and filmed at The Triple Door in Seattle, WA on April 5th, 2025.

On this historic retrospective, Salgado breathes new energy and life into a high impact set list of R&B, Funk, Soul and Rock ’n’ Roll music from various points in his career, featuring new arrangements using four-part horns and three backing singers.

An astounding ten of the thirteen songs are from Salgado’s extensive list of Blues Music Award-nominated projects and from award-winning albums.

1. Sing My Song
2. Wiggle Outta This
3. Clean Getaway
4. My Girlfriend
5. Money Must Think I’m Dead
6. Sweet Jesus Buddha the Doctor
7. Count of Three
8. Precious Time
9. Nobody But You
10. I Don’t Want to Discuss It
11. A Woman or the Blues
12. 20 Years of B.B. King
13. Fine By Me

With the energy onstage and throughout the room palpable, Curtis and the band bared their musical souls to a sold out room that night and so we first get gifted the delectably grooved Sing My Song, the funky Wiggle Outta This, and the straight ahead blues of Clean Getaway and then we are brought forth the soulful My Girlfriend, the absorbingly affective Money Must Think I’m Dead and then the free flowing musical majesties of Sweet Jesus Buddha the Doctor are dealt.

Along next is the rousing guitar work that drives Count of Three and the American-blues, troubadour-hued Precious Time and they are in turn backed by the infectiously funky Nobody But You, the Blues Brothers-imbibed frivolity of I Don’t Want to Discuss It, the jaunty blues of A Woman or the Blues, the set rounding out on the impassioned 20 Years of B.B. King, coming to a close on the rocking blues of Fine By Me.

Born in Eugene, Oregon in 1954 and exposed to music from an early age, after Salgado’s performance skills emerged in kindergarten, he remained active in his school music and drama programs and other community events until reaching 18 and starting work as a paid performer on the bar scene.

By 1977, an introduction to John Belushi during a set break of a performance at The Eugene Hotel helped plant seeds that would influence the box office hit film, The Blues Brothers. A former member of The Robert Cray Band and vocalist for Roomful of Blues, Salgado has worked on and off as a solo artist and with various other bands since age 18 and has been fronting his own band since 1987. He tours extensively in the United States and worldwide.

Legacy Rewind: Live in ’25 will be available in digital, CD and vinyl formats.

www.curtissalgado.com