Wow - Revolution Rhapsody debuts at #41 on the charts :-)

http://www.rootsmusicreport.com/index.php?page=charts&name=blues

 As seen today in March 2012 issue of PA Musician - The Professor's Live Reviews, by Jim Price:
"Old Man Winter also smiled favorably on last month's 16th Annual Millennium Music Conference in Harrisburg. After arriving, with no Thursday night showcases happening this year, I instead ventured southward to the Market Cross Pub in downtown Carlisle to take in part of the weekly Thursday night blues jam session hosted by Bushmaster singer and guitarist Gary Brown. Gary led a group of mostly younger and aspiring musicians on several blues jams. He directed the jams, calling out breaks, breakdowns, solos and more. Gary and the musicians showed their chops on versions of Elmore James' "The Sky Is Crying," the Dave Edmunds-popularized "I Hear You Knocking" and more. Gary was in excellent form on vocals and guitar, and it was reassuring to see him nurturing a future generation of blues players this...

 Thanks to Nicole Freeman at Critic Studio Magazine for her insightful interview - fun talking with you Nicole :-)

http://criticstudio.com/interviews/gary-brown/

OMG - Radio Woodstock (yes, Woodstock, NY) - 100.1 WDST .... here's the audio archive from 2/26/12 where Joe Fitz played "Arizona Shame On Ya" on his Blues Break show... this is the entire show... Joe introduces the track and talks about the band and reads some of the thank you list from the CD's liner notes before he plays the track... starts about 51 minutes into the player...  thanks Joe  :-)

http://radiowoodstock.com/audio-on-demand-detail&song_id=2685126227

Blues Deluxe radio show will play "Cumberland Blues" on their syndicated show the week of March 18-24, 2012.
Here's the playlist for the show:

The Bushmaster has done it again. Guitar axe Gary Brown and his band have just finished another great cd. He’s real honest and doing his thing. Brown is not abandoning his musical roots and he has got an important message to say.

You can hear the spirits of Jimi Hendrix, Otis Redding, Stevie Ray Vaughan, James Brown, Hubert Sumlin, among many others, shining their light and if you don´t talk after the last track of the cd you can hear the big ones in the sky give it up for the Bushmaster. 

Every time I play this cd it gets better. Although the first time I listened to it was good already. This music is like a big painting; I always hear new things, yet I also feel at home with familiair guitar licks. I also like the rhythm changes, like ‘River flow –Splash!’ and 'Trudi', it reminds me a bit...

Thanks to Todd Glazer Promotions radio promotion, Revolution Rhapsody is getting more radio airplay   :-)

Just got an exciting new review (that I wasn't expecting) from Living Blues Magazine.  Thanks to David Whiteis for his insightful, honest review of the album and my new tunes... high praise indeed!

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BUSHMASTER, FEATURING GARY BROWN
Revolution Rhapsody— aka: Uprising Music
No Label, (No#)
Talk about capturing the Zeitgeist—as the Occupy movement spreads across the country, and class inequality finds a place in mainstream political discussion for the first time in decades, guitarist Gary Brown and his cohorts have come out with a blast of populist fervor laced with unapologetically revolutionary overtones. Most of what’s here is less blues, as such, than hard-driving rock and pop with a bluesy tinge, although occasionally, as on 40 Acres and a Mule (similar to, but not exactly like, the Bobby Rush song) Brown sets his lyrics to a pounding blues shuffle. Victim of Nostalgia is likewise derivative (of...

Thanks to Blues Blast and Rainey Wetnight for the detailed comprehensive review!

go here to read it online:  http://www.thebluesblast.com/Archive/BluesBlasts/2012/BluesBlast2_9_12.htm