10/13/17 Bernie Chiaravalle - Guitarist with Michael McDonald

Published: Oct. 13, 2017, 11:23 p.m.

b'Since 1988, Marin County singer-songwriter Bernie Chiaravalle has been touring the world playing guitar with five-time Grammy winner Michael McDonald.\\xa0 During those years, Chiaravalle has co-written and recorded with McDonald, co-writing four tracks on his superb 2000 release Blue Obsession, as well as co-producing it.\\xa0 They have written over two dozen songs together.\\xa0 Bernie also has a song on the legendary Judy Collins duets album Strangers Again.\\xa0 The wonderful \\u201cMiracle River\\u201d was written by Bernie, Amy Holland and John Goodwin and performed as a duet between Judy Collins and Mike McDonald.\\xa0
Bernie\\u2019s musical style encompasses many influences from The Beatles to Stephen Stills to Todd Rundgren and others.\\xa0 But he really has distilled those influences down into his own thing.\\xa0 Many of his songs have a cinematic quality that suggests visuals to go along with the music.
While holding down Mike McDonald\\u2019s guitar chair for the past 29 years, which is practically forever in the notoriously mercurial music business, Bernie Chiaravalle has amassed his own fine body of solo work.
The self-penned Make Some Sense of This is his eighth solo record, coming just a year after his well-received One Bright Moment.\\xa0 Here, he flawlessly handles all vocals and instruments.
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