Tell On It: Compendium of Obscurity

About the Book

TELL ON IT was the expression Mike Bloomfield used to get us to open up and get to the present tense reality, and cut to the chase. I was in his Mike Bloomfield and Friends band off and on from ‘76-81. I played and toured in all those configurations. Enjoy the photos from Tahoe to Texas to San Francisco. I remember some stuff that landed in my court, and other things that were hit over the fence. Things that are still out there in the weeds. The COMPENDIUM of OBSCURITY is a trick that I played on myself in order to burn my candle back into the story that I was trying to tell. I had difficulty leaving some things out. I had fun putting some wickedness in. Mike had a brilliant sense of humor. I owe my global perspective on the blues to him. I gained some ground in the (music) marketplace- and EXPRESS my take on my own career from Hollywood to Paris and back. I got my wings from the track and the stingers on Albert’s Shuffle. It is the way shower at his best. TELL ON IT. If it is ILLUMINATION you need, keep listening to his solos. I have been gifted in other ways. My mentor from Blueslab, *Brother Ray Charles playing SOMEWHERE OVER THE RAINBOW. It isn’t supposed to read like prose. It isn’t supposed to sound like music. It is like living in my dream.

About the Author

David Randall Shorey comes from the Robert Anton Wilson, Victor Hugo, Jules Verne, Chester Himes, Raymond Chandler, and James Ellroy, Charles Bukowski, Elmore Leonard noire ( LITERARY) associatives. His formal writing and English degree come from Springfield College. His post-grad work included University Of Nevada, Northern Nevada Community College and Pepperdine University. His guitar was always for hire. He did many gigs with his heroes; most notably Mike Bloomfield ( records and tours), Big Joe Turner, Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs, and members of The Blues project, The Youngbloods, The Electric Flag, Paul Butterfield Band and many others. He has several domestic CD/records with TERRA NOVA. His songs are heard on television. He is a SAG actor and has appeared in many films, and was the Judge on the JAY-Z video on MTV. He has many CD’s with DIXIEFROG label/ Paris, France. He has 9 books, (12 plays, music lyric book, hardbound Volumes I & II of screenplays, poems, short stories, prose, 2 novels and an art book) on XLIBRIS.