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UPLOADED APRIL 2011, REMEMBERING SEAN: Sean Costello, Aaron Trubic & Ray Hangen thrilled a full house audience with great blues music, when the band performed at the ‘Nekkersdaal’ venue in Brussels, Belgium, March 13th, 2007 Video is a bit shaky, ‘snapped’ using a small digital camera held as high up as possible, in order to see beyond the folk sitting in the rows in front. The Sean Costello band, here featuring: Sean Costello (guitar, vocals) Aaron Trubic (bass) Ray Hangen (drums) From Wikipedia: Born in Philadelphia, Costello moved to Atlanta at the age of 9. Obsessive about the guitar from a young age, he got hooked on the blues after buying Howlin’ Wolf’s ‘Rockin’ Chair Album’. At 14 the young prodigy created a stir in a Memphis guitar shop, where an employee tipped his father off about a talent contest sponsored by the Beale Street Blues Society, which Costello duly entered and won. He formed his first band shortly after. At sixteen, Costello recorded his first album, Call The Cops (1996), already ‘displaying a flawless command of 1950s blues guitar’, in the words of music historian Tony Russell. His lead guitar work on Susan Tedeschi’s gold-selling album, Just Won’t Burn, (1998), subsequently brought him national exposure. Costello’s band later toured as Tedeschi’s backing group. “His playing is shockingly deep for a 20-year old”, wrote the Allmusic guide of Costello’s second album, Cuttin’ In (2000), which was nominated for a WC Handy Award for Best New Artist …
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