Roadcatz Records announces the return of Legendary Blues Artist, Chris ‘Uncle Gus’ Gussa With his new release, ‘Turn up the Blues-a-lator’

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Back in 1966 in the small town (at that time) of El Cajon, California, Chris at the age of sixteen, won a contest for โBest Blues Guitarist in San Diegoโ โI think I won a hundred dollars and got a write up in San Diego Magazine or some such thingโ, says Chris. But this was the beginning of โa long strange tripโ for Uncle Gus (to quote The Grateful Dead.)

During or around that time, Chris had been jamin’ with a bunch of young guys

At a teenage nightclub called โThe Palaceโ in Mission Beach who called themselves The Iron Butterfly.

They got this โnot so appealingโ offer to play five nights a week in a seedy little place off of Sunset strip for around fifty dollars a week each and sleep on the floor for free. Most of them quit school and went for it, but Chris stayed behind (mostly because his mother wouldn’t let him quit school) But also because he preferred Real Genuine Blues to the strange Heavy Psychedelic stuff they were, blues lator , lead guitar , original songs , san diego , uncle gus