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        "Bootleg Blues" Official CD was recorded live in studio "Soundtrack" in Belgrade in summer 2002 (with one track recorded live in club "Kuglaš" in April 2002 in Belgrade).
The CD was released on February 1st for "Round Records"
The concert promotion of the CD started in Belgrade on February 1st 2003 in "Dom Omladine". Since then we've held concert promotions in cities and the media all over Yugoslavia. In May 2003, the CD was promoted on the number one radio station in Israel "Kol Ha Derech 88FM".
"Bootleg Blues" CD received excellent critics from the public and the media in Yugoslavia and Israel.
Tracks from the CD are included on "Play lists" of various Yugoslav radio stations

        We've intended to make this CD sound contemporary and new, but at the same time close to the "roots". We also intended to show variety and make this album attractive not only for strictly blues audience
We hope we succeeded.

        We are often asked why we didn't include source material on the CD
Many blues standards exist and live for almost 100 years and they still sound as fresh as they did back then. Keeping that in mind, we felt that on our first release, it was important to show respect to musicians and tunes that we've admired.
Never the less, we are currently preparing material for our next CD that will include blues standards but also source material.

Guest artists
        We've always admired the singing skills of the sisters Tijana and Bojana Stamenov (young but excellent blues duet in which they both sing and play guitars - we believe they will be a big success) and on some occasions we had the privilege to perform together.
It was a natural choice to ask them to join us for the recording of "Nobody's fault but mine". Luckily, they accepted.
We went to the studio, set the microphones and recorded it (without even rehearsing.)
We didn't need to listen to the recording. We knew that it was good.

        We've enjoyed listening to Rade Popović's guitar playing since the time he played in "Hush" with Ana Popović.We allways believed him to be one of the best electric guitar players in Yugoslavia, or at least, one of the guitar player with the best feeling and understending for blues.
At the time we traveled together to his gig in Novi Sad, we had allready recorded the acoustic version of Donovan's "Season Of The Witch" and played the raw recording from the tape in the car. Rade was moved by the song and proposed to record an electric guitar solo. Who refuses that kind of offer!
When we came back to Belgrade we went to the studio and recorded a new, totally different version of the song.
It couldn't get any better than that

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