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.