This past summer, during the height of the shut-down, this writer witnessed a virtual live performance by Johnny Rawls and guitarist Christopher Dean. So it’s not surprising to see the veteran blues/soul man Rawls appear on
Songs from French Street by Christopher Dean, but I didn’t know that the Dean-Snyder relationship is not new: this is the fourth album for Dean on “Chicago” Carl Snyder’s Lost World Music label. “Chicago” Carl Snyder has been playing for six decades, half of which were in the Windy City as the keyboardist for Junior Wells, Son Seals, Jimmy Johnson and Otis Rush. With the blessing of “Chicago” Carl, we know we are getting the real deal stuff with Christopher Dean.
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From Christmas trees to snowflakes, there are many images emblematic of the holiday season.
Among the sweetest, however, are surely the fun and festive drawings of wrapped candy by artist Lowell Tolstedt.
In colored-pencil drawings currently on view at Keny Galleries, Tolstedt offers striking close-up views of the sort of treats that many of us the artist included have sitting around the house at this time of year.
“Subject matter like that can sit there forever,” said Tolstedt, 81, the former fine arts dean at the Columbus College of Art & Design who relocated several years ago to New Bern, North Carolina.