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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Sean Costello
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sean Costello. Photo: Delta Groove Productions.
It’s a gloomy week for Georgia music. The passing of a bright young talent such as Atlanta guitarist Sean Costello is sad beyond words.
It’s difficult to listen to Costello’s version of the traditional gospel tune “Going Home” today. “Soon I will be done with the trouble of this world,” it begins, in the gravelly voice of the acclaimed guitarist, singer and songwriter who died Tuesday. That song is one of the highlights on his just-released fifth album, “We Can Get Together.” For those who missed the news of Costello’s passing, the story is here, and the guest book is here.
Shock seems to be the common response from fellow musicians. “Our friend is gone. Our hearts are broken,” reads the message on the MySpace page of Atlanta blues band the Breeze Kings.
Despite his youth, Costello was an old musical soul. His influences were definitely old school. “When I want to really enjoy music, I tend to pull out the old classics,” he told me in an interview back in early 2005, about the time his self-titled fourth album was released. “I listen to a lot of old soul records, a lot of gospel music, and I’m a huge Dylan fan.”
Carol Peters of Peters Management Syndicate, Costello’s manager, is a Chicago native who saw many blues greats, including Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf. She became an instant fan the first time she saw Costello play. “He didn’t just perform, he became the music,” she writes in an e-mail sent to the AJC on Wednesday. “Every finger, shoulder, footstep and facial expression communicated the music. It came from someplace within him and poured out of him.”
The Atlanta blues scene has a lost a big chunk of its heart.
