Jan 2021 Fruteland Jackson “Good As Your Last Dollar”
Artista / Grupo: Fruteland Jackson
Álbum: Good As Your Last Dollar
Discográfica: Electro-Fi
Año publicación: 2019
Fecha crítica: 1/2021
Valoración: GREAT
With a musical career of about thirty-eight years long, Fruteland Jackson has been five times nominated to the Blues Music Awards and he has also been honored by The Blues Foundation with the Keeping The Blues Alive award Apart from his career as a musician, Fruteland actively participates in the Blues In The Schools programs, which aim is to introduce and bring blues closer to young students Musically speaking, Jackson grew up in Chicago, performing regularly in most of the city clubs, also backing regularly musicians and good friends like Honeyboy Edwards, Robert Lockwood Jr or Homesick James Jackson shows himself as a real storyteller, a historian who orally brings blues culture to the audience, not only performing old blues standards but also writing his own songs This new recording has been published by Electro-Fi, a Canadian record label where Fruteland Jackson was its first acoustic artist to record many years ago The album includes twelve wonderful songs performed in the most genuine traditional blues style, which allows us to appreciate the deep passion, the undeniable quality and the enormous personality of this amazing and especially honest bluesman