Curtis Salgado and his 'Damage Control' life
February 23 2021
Longtime blues star navigates pandemic with same vigor as past, welcoming new album but yearning to perform live.
Curtis Salgado's life, along with the lives of about 8 billion other people, changed about this time last year. And, in his now 67-year-old wisdom, he saw it coming. The music industry, in particular, would be on proverbial life support.
Salgado, the longtime Portland bluesman and singer and nine-time winner of Blues Music Awards, played at a full-house gig in Everett, Washington, last February, walked off the stage and heard the news. The coronavirus had reached Washington state. But it didn't stop Salgado, who, along with guitarist Alan Hager, kept a commitment to do a show in Saipan, Japan, in March 2020.