Duke Levine has a stock line other musicians might find depressing. “I like to say, ‘I have never gotten a gig I auditioned for,” Levine told the Boston Herald. “For whatever reason, that’s what has happened.”
Duke Levine has a stock line other musicians might find depressing.
“I like to say, ‘I have never gotten a gig I auditioned for,” Levine told the Boston Herald. “For whatever reason, that’s what has happened.”
The Worcester-raised, New England Conservatory-educated, Boston-based guitarist’s latest gig that he didn’t audition for is playing beside the great Bonnie Raitt — he takes the stage with Raitt June 11 at the Cape Cod Melody Tent and June 15 at the MGM Music Hall at Fenway.
Levine thinks Raitt might have been vaguely aware of his playing (he has logged years on the road with Peter Wolf, Mary Chapin Carpenter, and others). But like most of the jobs he’s landed, it was other musicians’ recommendations that got him the position. Basically, Bonnie’s band gave him the thumbs up — including Somerville-native and longtime-Raitt bassist James Hutchinson
“Hutch put my name in there,” Levine said.
