reprinted from
Living Blues
February 2007


GARY MITCHELL GRAY
Grog the Boogieman
©Grog #0602

Grog is New York City guitarist Gary Mitchell Gray, who recorded this solo set on a slow night at a Brandeis University coffeehouse. Although Gray’s resume includes stints playing trumpet with Albert King and Otis Rush, and he includes covers of Sitting on top of the World and Help Me, the selections from Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, Steve Stills, and Jimi Hendrix reveal him as a rock n roller at heart. Most of the six Gray compositions on the set veer toward folk rock, but the best of them Pleeze Mr. Bush, is a powerful blues with Gray’s guitar taking on an acerbic tone not unlike that of Fred McDowell’s amplified recordings.


-Jim DeKoster

GARY MITCHELL GRAY: Grog The Boogieman this is gary's first live, raw, and rare solo performance of six original songs, and six well chosen covers. included are pleeze mr. bush, and voodoo child (slight return)

Blues is the answer