Nov 2012 Big Pete Pearson “Choose”
Artista / Grupo: Big Pete Pearson
Álbum: Choose
Discográfica: Modesto Blues
Año publicación: 2012
Fecha crítica: 11/2012
Valoración: GREAT
What a great voice, what a great singer, what a great talent, what amazing intensity communicated by this huge shouter singer called Big Pete Pearson when he is in front of a microphone Do you know he is known as ‘Arizona’s King Of The Blues’? Since the 50’s on, he has regularly performed and toured along Phoenix blues circuits and leading various bands, including The Driving Wheel, Blues Sevilles or The Detroit Blues Band He has also collaborated, recorded, worked and shared stage with such legends like Ray Charles, BB King, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Ike & Tina Turner, Koko Taylor, Etta James, Johnny Ace, Clarence Gatemouth Brown, T-Bone Walker, Big Mama Thornton, Big Joe Turner, Pinetop Perkins, Buddy Guy, Henry Gray, Duke Robillard and, of course, his cousin WC Clark, as well as many other great and renowned blues artists In this album Big Pete shows again his terrific vocal skills in ten new own songs, where prevail not only soul blues in the style of Little Milton, Bobby Rush, and Bobby ‘Blue’ Bland, but also southern blues full of roaring powerful groove, as well as some Chicago blues Big Pete vocal abilities are perfectly supported by The Gamblers, with Guitar Ray Scona on guitar, Henry Carpaneto on piano, Gabriele Dellepiane on bass and Marco Fuliano on drums