Sean Costello

[bbarnard]

Originally Posted by jumpnblues

"Big Time" playing straight blues? Ya' never want to say never, but... Now, if you play blues influenced rock and roll you could experience a moderate amount of "big time" success ala Joe Bonnamassa or Gary moore. But straight blues? Probably, well...never.


Tom

Actually I agree with the poster that either Sean or Nick could make the "big time", but not because they play blues, but rather because VOCALLY they both had/have great voices and are willing to explore other materials. Sean towards the end had gone very much into the more R&B end of blues (while still having a firm blues tradition). He was also very funky. I think Nick may actually be a slightly better (well different perhaps more commercial) vocalist. Both of them are amazing guitar players. Nick is also more firmly available to go into more modern musical areas (witness his punk band Deguello).

[jumpnblues]

Originally Posted by bbarnard

Actually I agree with the poster that either Sean or Nick could make the "big time", but not because they play blues, but rather because VOCALLY they both had/have great voices and are willing to explore other materials. Sean towards the end had gone very much into the more R&B end of blues (while still having a firm blues tradition). He was also very funky. I think Nick may actually be a slightly better (well different perhaps more commercial) vocalist. Both of them are amazing guitar players. Nick is also more firmly available to go into more modern musical areas (witness his punk band Deguello).

Oh yeah, certainly they "could" make the "big time" and both are monster talents. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to have seen either or both have success on the level of, say, Mariah Carey. But realistically in today's market? Nah gunna' happen. Frustrates the heck outta' me that such massively talented guys will forever go largely and all but unnoticed. There's just so much crap and junk/throwaway music out there right now and people are getting rich and famous for it. But, that's the way it's been for most of my 47 year music career, so I don't look for it to change anytime soon.


Tom

[stephenT]

Originally Posted by rhp52

Do you know the circumstances regarding his exit?

Who knows the mind of a female singer?

[jjboogie]

Originally Posted by rhp52

Do you know the circumstances regarding his exit?

I think Susan was ready to take advantage of another under aged boy!

J/K

[custom kid]

Originally Posted by jumpnblues

Oh yeah, certainly they "could" make the "big time" and both are monster talents. Nothing would give me more pleasure than to have seen either or both have success on the level of, say, Mariah Carey. But realistically in today's market? Nah gunna' happen. Frustrates the heck outta' me that such massively talented guys will forever go largely and all but unnoticed. There's just so much crap and junk/throwaway music out there right now and people are getting rich and famous for it. But, that's the way it's been for most of my 47 year music career, so I don't look for it to change anytime soon.


Tom

I agree that mass appeal is unlikely to happen with blues music - I would gauge success in that genre as being on a Robert Cray type level...playing capacity gigs in places holding anywhere from 1500 up to a few thousand or so.....rather than bars....and maybe even getting some chances at opening slots with the likes of BB King, Clapton, Mayer etc etc

I think Sean was more than capable of achieving that with the right break. From what I've read it seems like he certainly had his share of bad luck - particularly around the time of the self-titled album in 2005 - where everything seemed to be in place for some wider recognition and he was recording with guys like Steve Jordan and Willie Weeks - only for the label to fold pretty much immediately when the cd hit the market.

Originally Posted by stephenT

Susan had been shopping for a band and found Sean's band would fit the bill. Sean was abruptly replaced in his own band (while on the road) and as Susan's "close personal friend".

Since finding out about Sean and his work with Susan Tedeschi I've wondered why she didn't 'come back' for him when she achieved greater success and help give him a break. Maybe thats naive on my part - but I'd have thought his name may at least have been mentioned to some influential people at that point. She was on the Crossroads bill last year and also toured with her husband Derek Trucks with the 'Soul Stew Revival' - which I believe had several different acts involved in a kind of touring festival setup. Both of those would have been great opportunities for Sean.

I hope he realised how much he was admired and appreciated by those who DID see him play and hear his recordings.

[mr tom]

I'm a firm believer that people in general learn to want what they get. I worked in record stores long enough that I got to see LOTS of folks who had never heard blues before really digging what I was playing, asking about it, and buying it. Hence my faith that if we could find a way to spoonfeed people Real music and Good music, they might even get into it.

Guys like Sean (and Nick and Shawn P and Gary Clark Jr.) just HAVE it - in addition to their obvious musical talents, there's something that says "Watch me!" I think it's called charisma.

Agree 100% with bbarnard: Nick is not very interested in being a bandleader, as far as I can tell. I believe there's a CD left to deliver on his Blind Pig deal, but that doesn't seem to be materializing in any big hurry. (I WISH IT WOULD!!)

[Scott Miller]

On the other hand, if Sean Costello had made it really huge, this thread would have gone into "sucks/doesn't suck" about eight pages ago.

[custom kid]

Originally Posted by Scott Miller

On the other hand, if Sean Costello had made it really huge, this thread would have gone into "sucks/doesn't suck" about eight pages ago.

You're right! There are some streaming audio interviews from February this year where Sean says he had been criticised in some reviews for not playing enough guitar on his self titled album that went in more of a RnB direction. I'll try and dig up the link and post it here.

The more success you get the more criticism tends to come with it. You can't please everyone I guess!

Edit - Here's the link to the interview

http://blogs.thenewstribune.com/ej/2...his_eclectic_t

[Mr Meaner]

Here's a little reason why I compared SRV and Sean early in this post... Maybe you can see some similarities... This may be a side of SRV you never heard, but I knew he could play many styles other than Albert King or Jimi Hendrix... Those were just his preferences and how could that be bad anyhow? Absolutely nothing here to knock Sean, but Stevie was a masterful Blues artist of many styles. Theres some B.B.,(his song of course) T-Bone, Ray Sharpe, maybe even some Elmore James in there... So you guys that are stuck on Stevie being a one-trick pony I think you should just give it up... There's also another clip of him playing it in Australia... The sound and playing doesn't match up very well, but it's later and it still great playing that many of you may of never heard form Stevie!!! He was an absolutely awesome BLUES player!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-KE0VwHJL4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=kvz8Vcm133s

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