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Note: Show billed as "Nick Gravenites and Animal Minds. Jerry Garcia and Pete Sears sat in the entire show.

In addition to authoring the classic “Born In Chicago” and the groundbreaking “East West” for Butterfield, Gravenites scribed hits for Janis Joplin and has his songs recorded by Big Brother and the Holding Company, Michael Bloomfield, the Electric Flag (of which Gravenites was a founding member), Pure Prairie League, Tracy Nelson, Roy Buchanan, Jimmy Witherspoon as well as blues giants Howlin’ Wolf, Otis Rush, and James Cotton. He has a couple of solo albums and has scored and played on the soundtracks for “The Trip”, “Medium Cool”, and “Steelyard Blues”. He has appeared on some 40 albums as singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer.

Other Bands: He formed the short lived Blue Gravy and joined Big Brother And The Holding Company early in 1969 staying until early 1972. He was involved with the Taj Mahal/Mike Bloomfield live album, and again in 1973 with “Steelyard Blues”. He also formed the Nick Gravenites Band which became Nick Gravenites Blues in 1978 and in the summer of ‘78 he joined Huey Lewis’ Monday Nite Live sessions but by the end of the year that too had disbanded.

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REVIEW: Nick Gravenites with Pete Sears “Rogue Blues”

Nick Gravenites with Pete Sears – Rogue Blues

I’m pleased yet filled with wonder & pleased to hear legendary South Side of Chicago blues artist Nick Gravenites with an all-star cast of musicians. I’m filled with wonder as to why it clocks in at a mere 27 minutes. This is the first recorded work of Nick in 8 years — he deserves more time.

Produced by Pete Sears & Thomas Yeates the tunes were recorded in CA (2022-2023 with Charlie Musselwhite’s parts recorded in Clarksdale, MS) for the freshly minted Rogue Blues (Dropped April 5/M.C. Records/27:00). Aficionados & purists will find Nick’s set quite engaging & capable 7 decades into his career.

For those unfamiliar Nick was the man who played a big role throughout Janis Joplin’s career including a stint with Big Brother & the Holding Company. He also played with Elvin Bishop & Mike Bloomfield, founded The Electric Flag & wrote songs for Pure Prairie League, Tracy Nelson, Roy Buchanan, Howlin’ Wolf & James Cotton. He wrote scores for films & produced the hit “One Toke Over the Line,” by folk rock duo Brewer & Shipley (covered also by that “hard rock band” the Lawerence Welk Orchestra). Nick wrote “Born in Chicago” (1965) & co-wrote with Bloomfield the classic Paul Butterfield Blues Band instrumental “East-West.” Now that’s a resume.

But this bone features lots of meat (6 originals & 1 cover) & many name artists who stepped up on songs never released until now. It’s a spare trimmed-down affair but therein lies the authenticity Nick has always managed to convey. Nick doesn’t play guitar (due to arthritis & may be the reason Bob Dylan doesn’t play guitar much anymore either) but, his iconic vocals continue to have character, experience & expertise.

The brief set opens with Chester Burnett’s (Howlin’ Wolf)1958 tune “Poor Boy,” which wears its juke joint threads well. A piano strides along a smoky harmonica framing. Then with “Blues Singers,” which is recorded with finesse I thought it could’ve used a scratchy 78 rpm application to age it a tad just at the intro. It needs a little dust, some flypaper stickiness & an ounce of spilled whisky & beer aroma. But, I admit, it’s quite good as is.

Nick’s vocal tonality is blessed with a thornier aged voice of the blues. An approach to the lyric that’s sawdust dry which gives it a genuine fiber, just as Mose Allison. He certainly knows that each song’s recipe’s flavor depends on lard & not margarine.

Highlights – All 7. No doubt.

Musicians – Charlie Musselwhite & Lester Chambers (harmonica), Pete Sears (piano/bass/accordion/bgv), Wally Ingram (drums/percussion), Roy Blumenfeld (drums), Jimmy Vivino (guitar/mandolin/bgv), Willard Dixon (clarinet), Keith Baltz (sousaphone) & Barry Sless (pedal steel guitar/acoustic rhythm).

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Music | Nick Gravenites reminisces about Janis Joplin, Michael Bloomfield and the Chicago blues migration to San Francisco

Wearing his signature Greek fisherman’s cap, Gravenites sat at the end of a couch with his cane by his side, signing copies of his albums and chatting with members of the band, who peppered him with questions about his life and the famous people he’d met and worked with along the way.

Singer-songwriter-guitarist Cesar Rosas wanted to know if Gravenites had met Bob Dylan in New York.

“Nah,” Gravenites replied. “New York wasn’t a blues town. It was a folk music town.”

But he quickly segued into a story about Dylan’s manager, Albert Grossman, wanting Dylan to renegotiate his original Columbia Records contract because he was underage when he signed it.

“Bob said no,” Gravenites said. “He told Grossman that he signed that contract with John Hammond (the respected producer and civil rights activist) in good faith and he was going to honor it. Bob’s a straight shooter. He’s a good guy.”

There was an air of deference and respect in the room as Gravenites spoke. He had never achieved the kind of success and fame that the Grammy-winning East Los Angeles rockers had in their long career, but among students of roots music, he holds a kind of legendary status in the White blues-rock pantheon.

Gravenites is best known for writing “Born in Chicago,” the opening song on the first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album in 1965, which exposed White rock and pop audiences to Black electric blues. As a songwriter, he penned “Buried Alive in the Blues” and “Work Me Lord” for Janis Joplin.

In 1967, the Summer of Love, he was a founding member and lead singer of the Electric Flag, a powerhouse but short-lived blues-rock-soul band that featured Bloomfield on guitar and Buddy Miles on drums. Before making their debut at the Monterey Pop Festival, band members lived together and had their first rehearsals in a big communal house that Gravenites rented in Marin’s Tam Valley.

In 1967, Gravenites wrote the score for the “The Trip,” a movie about the LSD experience written by Jack Nicholson and starring Peter Fonda. He also produced the music for the 1973 film “Steelyard Blues” and produced the No. 10 Billboard hit, 1970’s “One Toke Over the Line,” by Brewer & Shipley.

Before their Rancho gig, the members of Los Lobos had no idea that this seminal figure in the history of blues was still alive and singing. So they were pleasantly surprised when his musician friend and helpmate, drummer Gary Silva, called the leader of Los Lobos, singer-guitarist David Hidalgo, a longtime acquaintance of his, and told him he’d happily bring the octogenarian bluesman to their show, a late afternoon outdoor barbecue on the roadhouse’s back lawn.

“David said, ‘You can bring Nick Gravenites?’” Silva recalls. “’It would be amazing if he would sit in. I’m going to call the guys in the band right now and let them know.’”

When it was time for his guest appearance midway through the band’s set, Gravenites, frail and unsteady on his feet, had to be helped onto a chair on the stage. People held their breath, not expecting much, hoping they weren’t about to witness a train wreck. But when he picked up the mic and started to sing, the years fell away and he was rejuvenated, his voice sounding incongruously young and strong and soulful, like it was coming from some place deep inside him.

A sense of astonishment swept over the sold-out crowd. After three rousing blues tunes, the highlight being Gravenites’ signature “Born in Chicago,” he was awarded with a standing ovation.

Many memories

A few days later, Silva helped me set up an interview with Gravenites at his rustic home in Sonoma County. He shares a big, barnlike house with his wife, Marcia, in a forest of coastal redwoods on a ridge above the quaint little town of Occidental, where he’s lived for 30 years. For 14 of those years, he played the blues every Friday night at Negri’s, one of Occidental’s long-running Italian family-style restaurants.

At one end of the couple’s expansive, high-ceiling living room, picture windows frame a vertiginous view of the heavily wooded Sonoma Valley. On the walls are photos of fellow musicians and friends who have been important in his life and career, all of them long dead and gone: Joplin, Bloomfield, Butterfield, the soul singer Otis Redding. There’s a framed poster from the 1989 memorial concert at the Fillmore in San Francisco for Mill Valley’s John Cipollina, lead guitarist of the ’60s band Quicksilver Messenger Service. In a side room, Gravenites has a blown-up photo of Cipollina’s elaborate stage setup, now enshrined in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

He and Cipollina toured and performed under their own names and at times as “Thunder and Lightning.” The height of their partnership was a tour of Greece in 1967.

“He was a rocker and I was a bluesman,” he says, “but we were like soul brothers.”

After 60 years in the rough and tumble world of the music business, Gravenites has a reputation for occasional bouts of hard-earned cynicism and irascibility, but he was still riding high from his star turn with Los Lobos.

“Some of the people didn’t know who I was, but they found out by the time I was done singing,” says Gravenites, sitting in the sun on his front porch, his face shaded by a commemorative ball cap from the reunion of the Electric Flag in 1974. “I’ve been out of the picture and haven’t performed much for a long time, which is real bad because I have no money. But that day was fun.”

Chicago roots

Born and raised in a Greek-speaking family on Chicago’s South Side, he says he may have inherited his singing talent from his mother and his affinity for the blues from his ethnic roots.

“I’m a Greek, and Greeks have blues, too,” he says. “So I think I was born with a certain feeling.”

He tried his luck first as a folk singer in San Francisco’s North Beach in the early ‘60s, catching the tail end of the beatnik era as it gave way to the emerging hippie counterculture. He remembers having his mind blown by the first light show he’d ever seen, at the Coffee Gallery in North Beach in 1964.

In Chicago, as a self-described tough guy with an attitude and a .38 caliber pistol tucked into his belt, he frequented Black blues clubs where pioneering bluesmen like Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf and Buddy Guy performed.

At the University of Chicago, he had been part of a circle of young White blues musicians that included Butterfield, Bloomfield, guitarist Elvin Bishop and keyboardist Mark Naftalin, all members of the Butterfield band. Naftalin and Bishop eventually settled in Marin County. Bishop still lives in the San Geronimo Valley.

Credited with playing a pivotal role in bringing Chicago blues to San Francisco in the era of psychedelic rock, Gravenites was once described by music journalist Joel Selvin as “the original San Francisco connection for the Chicago crowd.”

The Chicago blues musicians were drawn by several factors, primarily the chance to play at prestige venues like the Fillmore Auditorium and the Avalon Ballroom booked by promoters Chet Helms and Bill Graham, who presented blues bands alongside rock acts.

“Half the blues players in Chicago came to San Francisco in about 1968,” Bishop says. “They found out there was an opportunity to play someplace besides ghetto bars. The weather was good. You didn’t have to wear those damn continental suits and pointy-toed shoes. The girls were friendly. You didn’t have to watch your back like you did in the bars in Chicago. It was all win-win.”

Love for Janis

The photos in his home of Joplin, who died of a heroin overdose in a Los Angeles hotel room in 1970 at the age of 27, are evidence of their abiding friendship, the affection he still feels for her.

When she controversially left the psychedelic rock band Big Brother and the Holding Company after the breakout success of their second album, “Cheap Thrills,” the guys in the band were hurt, feeling, as many fans did, that she had betrayed them just when they were starting to make it. Gravenites had known her since his folk-singing days in North Beach, when she was an aspiring blues singer from Texas with a drug habit. At this critical juncture in her career, he stuck by her.

“She was a friend,” he says. “I knew her forever. Did I foresee the star she would become? No, I didn’t. I didn’t see it coming. People were against her for some reason.”

He helped her put together a new group, the Kozmic Blues Band, and he briefly took her place as Big Brother’s lead singer, an unenviable job that he admits was “impossible to do.”

“You don’t replace Janis Joplin,” he says.

When she performed at Woodstock the year before she died, she ended her 2 a.m. set with Gravenites’s song “Work Me Lord,” praising him as “a fine songwriter.”

She sang herself into an impassioned frenzy on the song, a kind of prayer for the singer to be delivered from loneliness. Near the end, though, the band’s sound system was unexpectedly cut off, leaving her to finish a cappella. In the film footage of the performance, you can hear her say, “They haven’t turned me off yet.” But by then, her tortured voice was ragged and cracking, strained to a breaking point. She looked lonely and abandoned up there.

Some reviewers called the performance a raw masterpiece, the highlight of the set, but Gravenites is still incensed about it more than 65 years later.

“It was an insult,” says Gravenites, practically spitting the words out. “They put her on and they cut the music off. You don’t treat people that way. But there was a lot of weird stuff going on with Janis. People loved her, they hated her. They accused her of betraying her band, all kinds of weird stuff that a civilized human being shouldn’t have to put up with.”

The day she was found dead, she had been scheduled to go into the studio to record the vocals for his song “Buried Alive in the Blues.” On her posthumous album, “Pearl,” it’s the record’s only instrumental track. She had a new home in Larkspur’s Baltimore Canyon when she died.

“Janis died ugly, which is not good,” he says. “She died a junkie in a hotel room in L.A., which is the worst death. You can’t die worse than that. I was at home when I heard. It broke my heart.”

Another blow

His heart would be broken again by the inglorious death of his lifelong friend and bandmate in the Electric Flag, the brilliant but troubled guitarist Michael Bloomfield.

During one of their jams together, they had come up with the revolutionary sound that would become the title track of the second Butterfield Blues Band album, “East-West,” a groundbreaking instrumental blending blues with Indian ragas and modal jazz.

Like Joplin, Bloomfield had a drug problem, including heroin addiction, which he said he used to self-medicate for insomnia. In 1981, his body was found behind the wheel of his car on a San Francisco street. The medical examiner said he’d died of cocaine and methamphetamine poisoning. He was 37 years old and had been living in Mill Valley for years as a reluctant Marin County guitar hero. He was so down and out at the end of his life that Gravenites had to buy him a suit so he could attend his grandmother’s funeral.

“Michael was a genius, but he didn’t want to be out front or be a band leader,” Gravenites remembers. “He was crazy in a lot of ways. He didn’t care about the things that ordinary people care about.”

In the end, though, he adds, “It was the same thing as Janis. He died ugly.”

Gravenites and harmonica ace Paul Butterfield had been friends since Butterfield was a teenager at University High School in Chicago.

“In 1960, as Nick and Paul, we played Butterfield’s high school graduation party,” a smiling Gravenites remembers. “We both wore white tuxes.”

Butterfield, of course, would go on to great success and acclaim as a harmonica virtuoso, singer and leader of the Paul Butterfield Blues Band. In his late 30s, his popularity waning, he had several surgical procedures for peritonitis, a painful inflammation of the intestines. Perhaps to ease the pain of his disease he, too, began using heroin. He was also dealing emotionally with the deaths of Bloomfield and his manager, Albert Grossman, who died in 1986 of a heart attack at age 59.

On May 4, 1987, Butterfield collapsed and died of an accidental drug overdose in his apartment in North Hollywood. He was 44.

“Paul got weird,” Gravenites recalls. “He got drunk and junked out. He had family problems. His life turned out to be a mess. There was nothing I could do about it.  You’ve got to do it yourself or forget about it.”

Heroin addiction had also played a role in the breakup of the Electric Flag, Gravenites laments, saying he was able to steer clear of the drug because in the Greek culture he grew up in, heroin was a taboo.

“From my early upbringing in the South Side of Chicago, you didn’t mess with heroin,” he says. “If someone became a junkie, their father and brothers would come after them. Heroin was on the other side of the street. There were always problems with it.”

Surviving the blues

“One theft, one lie, one conspiracy, one thing after another, you can’t put it all together. It was too much,” he says. “We were dumb musicians. Did we have a lawyer? No. Everyone was a thief. If there was money to get they would steal it. My whole career was that way.”

These days, though, he’s thankful for friends like Silva, who takes him to his occasional gigs and to the farmers market in town on Saturdays to hang out with a group of locals. He’s especially grateful for his wife.

“I wouldn’t know what to do without her now,” he says. “I’d have to go into a hospital and stay there. She’s done everything for me, really. And I love her.”

After reminiscing for more than an hour, he tires, admitting that it’s hard to look back sometimes, remembering all the people in his life he’s outlived.

Still, as he told me with a shrug on this sunny, warm afternoon, “That’s the blues.”

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February 23, 2024 – Northport NY –   M.C. Records is thrilled to announce the upcoming release on April 5th of Rogue Blues , the first release from groundbreaking Chicago blues legend Nick Gravenites in eight years.

Recorded in 2022 and 2023, Rogue Blues features special guests Charlie Musselwhite, Jimmy Vivino, Barry Sless, Wally Ingram, and Lester Chambers of The Chambers Brothers. Pete Sears co-produced the record and is featured throughout. Renowned illustrator Thomas Yeates designed the cover and photo art and is also a co-producer. The record features 7 songs many never released.

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The seven songs on Rogue Blues are personal favorites of Nick’s that he would often play live but which have mostly not been previously released. Against a spare and naturalistic band, Nick’s weathered vocals and phrasing carry along songs that move from plaintive to cheeky to ironic. Encountering them is like hearing the irresistible sound of a honky tonk in the dead of night from outside a cloudy window. You must follow it and, when you do, you enter a smoky world of reminiscence, brimming with tortured lovers, down-and-outers, hard-luck scammers, and those simply looking for a good time. Though Nick no longer plays guitar due to arthritis, his iconic voice and craft-forward songwriting carry the day here, a fitting addition to the body of work of a songwriter who has helped shape the American blues canon over more than six decades.

It’s been seventy years since a scruffy, rebellious, wicked smart local Greek kid wound up hanging around Chicago’s south side club scene with friends and fellow blues enthusiasts Michael Bloomfield, Elvin Bishop, and Paul Butterfield. Soaking up legends like Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, and Otis Rush, Nick began composing and playing songs of his own. As Nick himself has said of that time, “Man, it was blues heaven in Chicago in the late fifties and early sixties, and I was an angel in residence.” When Butterfield recorded Nick’s composition “Born in Chicago” on his 1965 debut album, the world was introduced to the blues according to Gravenites, and the rest is history. In 2006, and in 2015, Nick was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame, and the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, respectively, for his songwriting contributions. Currently, Nick lives in Northern California, playing the occasional gig.

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Nick Gravenites is such a great no-nonsense artist….a huge part of the blues scenes of Chicago and California, in the 60s! Great songwriter and STILL performing and singing as great as ever! I’ve known Nick for about 60 years and he’s always been an inspiration and by golly, he continues to be!!!! I AIN’T LYIN’!!!”     Charlie Musselwhite

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Looking forward to playing music written and sung by my old friend Jerry Garcia. Some he played with his own band, and some he sang with the Dead. Most were co-written with his close friend, poet Robert Hunter.

Bob was also a good friend of mine. I played on his first solo album “Tiger Rose” recorded at Micky’s Rolling Thunder Studios and produced by Jerry in November 1974, and we later penned a few songs together for my 2nd solo album “The Long Haul” in 2001.

Jerry was a deep cat and cared very much about the people who listened to his music and and came to watch him play; he was always very careful to make certain the creative tapestry he and his band-mates were about to weave had a strong foundation to build from.

He was also socially conscious and was always ready to get on board and play a benefit concert if the cause resonated with him.

Stephen, Barry, Wally, Rob and I want to celebrate Jerry’s life at these shows through his music and take the jams out to the edge as Jerry always liked to do, but in our own way.

He loved the Islands and often talked to me about the joys of Scuba diving in Hawaii, where he felt weightless and free to interact with the precious wildlife surrounding him.

We love you Jerry.

Nick Gravenites “ROGUE BLUES” reviews in:

BLUES NEWS —The Newsletter of the Kentuckiana Society The illustrious career of Nick Gravenites began in the 1960’s with his friendship with Mike Bloomfield and Paul Butterfield and the creation of The Electric Flag with Barry Goldberg … Read More

ROCK AND BLUES MUSE The distinctive voice of the Butterfield Blues Band and the Electric Flag, Nick Gravenites, returns with a solo album, Rogue Blues, his first in eight years … Read More

“I’ve known Nick since 1961–and have always admired his singing and songwriting—this record really shows off his stuff beautifully—his music is grounded in the classic Chicago blues of the 50’s and 60’s, but he doesn’t try to imitate anybody—is always just himself—the songs are well written and strongly sung—always come at you from a totally unique angle. Charlie Musselwhite adds some way cool touches on harmonica—the production, by Pete Sears (who also plays piano and bass) is spare and tasty and really complements Nick’s voice perfectly—there’s a beautiful flow to the whole thing and I love it”

“Nick Gravenites is a legendary figure that has cruised back and forth between the San Francisco scene and Chicago’s blues scene forever it seems. I got the chance to see him live with Electric Flag in the late 60s and was impressed with his sound and his no nonsense delivery. These tracks recorded in 2022 and 2023 sound fresh, and are a good example of Nick’s singing and songwriting. It’s a pleasure to hear this underground treasure so powerful at this point in his career!”

“Nick Gravenitis is such a great no-nonsense artist….a huge part of the blues scenes of Chicago and California, in the 60s! Great songwriter and STILL performing and singing as great as ever! I’ve known Nick about 60 years and he’s always been an inspiration and by golly he continues to be!!!! He’s one of The Last Guys Standing….a Chicago “tough guy” from way back when being a tough guy actually meant something! I AINT LYIN’!!!”

Nick Gravenities, a seasoned veteran from the  waaay  back- in-the-day original Chicago Blues scene, is a masterful Blues singer & songwriter who penned such Blues classics as “Born in Chicago”~  ~He’s an OG …. an original, real deal, authentic Bluesman to the bone!~He writes about what he’s lived, in all its funky vicissitudes, which is what makes his songs so immediate & moving~ ~On this collection of never released recordings, Nick, accompanied by Pete Sears, Charlie Musselwhite & Jimmy Vivino, lets loose with gruff, raw, impassioned vocals that do what the Blues was intended to do…. express the raw emotion and anguish of the human condition in a very very personal way!~Any lovers of the Real Deal Old School Blues are sure to appreciate this recording!”

STEAMHAMMER

David nelson band, pete sears the long haul cd, every picture tells a story, 1971, pete sears on bass, 1971, jefferson starship, 1976, pete sears on piano, 1979, pete sears on piano, 2005, playing the dragon, moonalice, 2014, zero, 1992 ..