World Trade Center Benefit
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   Friday was every indication that Saturday would be just as good, if not better. Just-out-of-hibernation came Chrissy with a daring cover of "Part of You" from the Beastie Boys. The melodic power-pop of LSDT added a little humor to the festivities, belting out their tongue-in-cheek anthems "I am God" and "You Are Not Allowed In My House."

   Dave Eric put a new dimension to his sound by incorporating some flanger effects to his acoustic guitar brooding over an E minor chord. Stone Soup provided some Alannah Myles-styled funk. The act who really came through was Jack Stock, who dedicated his song "Stood By" to his friend "Joe" and the other victims of September 11.

   Bongo Jones proved that you could mix rap and what we have come to know as "basic rock n roll."

  The Wag came through with their McCartney-type song stylings that was quite astray from some of the more

The Wag shining through from Middletown

Dave Mac
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headliners. Blues as a genre has been slipped into other forms of music too, including jazz, country, rockabilly, big band, Memphis-style soul, uptown Chicago blues, down home Texas blues, New Orleans funk, and everything else between California and New York and Europe, etc.   By displaying his all-consuming tastes for good music, Dave Mac has opened up a treasure chest of great tunes, from artists both well known and never-heard-of-before.   When you listen to BOX OF BLUES, it is soon obvious that the blues encompasses more that just sad blues-there are forms of blues for every emotion, whether from a solo artist with just a guitar or from an industrial big band with a large horn section, multiple guitars, Hammond B-3 organs, Fender Rhodes or Wurlitzer electric pianos, and wild-eyed hip-shakin', money-makin', sex-machine-gyratin' front line singers and background
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