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typical blues lament. It's about a guy
whose girlfriend is ending their relation-
ship by putting his things, the ones she
doesn't want, in a brown paper bag.
"Cold, Sad and Lonely" was written
on a dreary day. "Start Again," complet-
ed for another band, had to do with his
moving back to Detroit after he had
spent some time in Chicago.
"Usually, when I'm writing, the music
and lyrics come together at the same
time while I'm at the guitar," Glazer
explains. "Sometimes, I write lyrics at
the computer."
Musical Legacy
Glazer's interest in music came from his
late parents, Eva and Norman Glazer,
who played lots of records around the
house. His mother taught music in
Detroit Public Schools, and his father
performed with a Latin American dance
band, Don Pablo and His Orchestra.
His parents, who helped prepare him
for his bar mitzvah by hiring a private
tutor, also influenced the profession of
another son, Smart, a classical composer
and teacher at Florida Atlantic
University. Glazer's other brother,
Steven, teaches ceramics at Henry Ford
Community College.
Glazer says he started working with
bands when he was 13 and went
through a series of groups while attend-
ing Milford High School and taking
classes at Wayne State University in
Detroit. He studied classical guitar but
favored the influence of Johnny Winter's
Born in 1945 in Shanghai, where
his Jewish- Polish parents fled at the
outset of World War II, Dichter traces
his musical heritage to the great piano
traditions of the 20th century: the
German Classical style of Aube
Tzerko in Los Angeles, where the
Dichters settled following the war,
and the Russian Romantic School
through Lhevinne at Juilliard.
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Glazer moved to Chicago in 1988 to
be dose to a stronger blues scene and
got to open for Lonnie Brooks, Lonnie
Mack and Savoy Brown. He also went
to hear the rock legends, such as Junior
Wells and Aron Burton.
"I think of my time in Chicago as
going to blues college," says Glazer, who
returned to the Detroit area in 1992 and
lives in Dearborn. 'After moving back, I
got to know a lot of blues musicians and
began playing with Harmonica Shah.
We toured together in Europe."
Glazer, whose wife Debra is an art
therapist, supplements his club work by
teaching private students.
"I'm already working on a new CD, "
Glazer says. "I hope it will be out next
year."
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