It's Chap-Day

Happy 98th birthday to Connecticut guitarist and recording engineer Jim Chapdelaine, who regularly plays with former NRBQ guitar-man Big Al Anderson. His other semi-regular gig is with the reconstituted Pousette-Dart Band. He's also won 4 Emmy Awards for his soundtrack work for PBS.

Chap is a regular breath of fresh air on the NRBQ e-mail list as well. He checked in this morning with his usual wit to thank everyone for the b-day greetings:

"Please tell me i don't have to share it with Steve Vai!"

Here's a 2004 profile of Jim and his studio in West Hartford:

http://mixonline.com/mag/audio_jim_chapdelaine/

And here is Chap's MySpace page:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=29778634