Curtis Salgado celebrates "Clean Getaway" with new Shanachie Album and New Lease on Life.
Curtis Salgado has a lot to celebrate. Two years ago he was diagnosed with liver cancer and told he had eight months to live, unless he got a liver transplant which would generate medical bills upwards of half a million dollars. With no health insurance and few funds, the man who is one of America's finest blues/souls singers needed a little help from his friends. When your friends and admirers include the likes of Steve Miller, Robert Cray, Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal, you've got a fighting chance. Numerous benefits were held in multiple cities including a benefit concert featuring Miller, Cray Taj Mahal, The Phantom Blues Band, Everclear and Little Charlie & The Cruise and thousands of fans who supported Curtis by attending benefits and auctions or by making private donations, upwards of half a million dollars were raised and Curtis got his transplant. A little less than two years after his initial diagnosis, Curtis was able to record Clean Getaway, an album whose title has an obvious double meaning. With its release on July 8, 2008. Clean Getaway, is a triumph in more ways than one. It is a sublime collaboration with the most respected session players in Los Angeles that goes to the heart of what music and life are all about.
