Covert / Image John Covert & Crystal Image CD

The album:Is a fusion of blues, jazz, country and rock. "Hello baby" and "Shelter from the storm" are blues."Tays-tee" is pure jazz and "Hardly working blues" is blues jazz genre. "Nag" is rock! "Everybody gets the blues, sometimes" is of the "swamp country-blues-rock" genre. Covert comments, "My influences include Ray Charles, Creedence Clearwater, Simon & Garfunkel, BB King, Crosby Stills and Nash, Steely Dan, Tower of Power, Willie Nelson and more. I love and respect all genres of music!I try to make my projects reflect that diversity." John Covert: Opened shows for Tower of Power, Sons of Champlin, Chad and Jeremy, The Chiffons, Simon & Garfunkel, Gary U.S. Bonds, Lady Bo (Bo Diddley's protege) and performed with members of John Lee Hooker's and Albert King's blues bands, Sly and the Family Stone, Pam Tillis, Tommy Castro's band and many others! BMI songwriter (Grand prize winner in the Nashville Music City Song Festival and multi-finalist in the American song festival). Partial song credits: Songs featured on ABC TV (General Hospital), The Nashville Network "Nashville Now!", VH1 TV shows 'The fabulous life of country superstars' and 'Driven' (which also featured Grammy winner, Usher!) and on an episode of "The Sopranos" (A&E network), in Hollywood movies (featuring actors Terence Knox "tour of duty" and Miguel Ferrer "Crossing Jordan"), Country Song Roundup magazine, Billboard and USA Gospel News magazine. His cowritten song "Smile if you love Jesus" charted #1 on the 1999 Country Gospel Music Guild charts.His 1960's folk rock songs are also featured on a rare collector's cd, "California Love in", out of Ireland/United Kingdom (also featured are songs of Steppenwolf). More of Covert's vintage Crystal Image music can be found on a German cd release at www.redloungerecords.de/crystalimage.Crystal image is getting airplay on these USA and overseas radio stations: www.songvault.fm, http://www.laughingdogradio.com, mondoblu.biz, NashvilleRadio.TV, American country radio network, live365.com/stations/unheardmusic, 2020theblink.net, indiecharts.com, musictogousa.com, radioindie.com, blueskyfm.co.uk, Liheni's blues station (soundclick), payplay.fm, kiac (black sheep station), fatcatradio.com, radiouppermurrasy.com, villeradio.mixstream.net, myspace.com/indieshowcase, awesomeradio.net, uaradio.net, whitbyshorespost.googlepages.com/VONEEREQUESTS,indielink web radio (canada), myspace.com/blossomsvocaljazz, bohemioradio.com, soundclick.com/countryroseshow, wav-etrain.com, radiofreakout.com these stations support indie artists and are the "future" of radio and new recorded music! Visit their sites, listen to the great new music and request or vote for the indie artists.Coming to (or already available at): Amazon.com, itunes, napster, carouselmall.net (WDYN). On a Personal note:"Tests of fire""In 2001, during a show opening for Tower of Power at the Radisson Hotel Grove in Sacramento, I experienced a knife-like pain in my back. MRI's discovered a bone chip had broken off and crushed my L3 nerve. I was in a wheelchair for almost a year and lost most of the muscle mass in my left leg, leaving it partially paralyzed. Spinal surgery, continuous physical therapy, a strong faith and the love of friends and my beautiful wife, Patty, got me walking again. Music alleviates the pain so I perform more now than I did before the incident. I have to admit, there were times I was ready to go home to my Lord. My faith was further tested the beginning of 2008 when, coming home from a long distance show, I fell asleep on a deserted road, totalled my car and made a mess of myself. Thank God, no one else was involved or injured. My van was crushed. A handtruck flew forward and sliced open the skin on the back of my head. The airbags saved my life. I woke up and called 911 on my cell phone. They pried me out of the van, took me to the hospital and stitched me up. After an unrelated surgery, I lost my voice