Delmark Finally Gets His Due

As singer/guitarist Delmark Goldfarb was tuning up, behind him was a big surprise. For the past 20 years there have been multiple people claming to have started the Blues Festival. Delmark is one of them. When the first "Rose City Blues Festival" was over in 1987, lawsuits were flying and bad blood generated that endured these two decades.

 

Just before Delmark started performing, Greg Johnson (here) and Terry Odor stepped up and gave him an award from the Cascade Blues Association giving Delmark credit for starting the Blues Festival.

 

Delmark was visibly moved.

 

Delmark with Terry Odor (a fellow blogger). Delmark, Music Millennium's Terry Currier and artist/producer/musician Ron Rogers have released a CD from the Rose City Blues Festival LP that was released in 1988. They've added tracks from Paul deLay and John Lee Hooker which were not on the LP.