Apr 2011 John Primer “Call Me John Primer”
Artista / Grupo: John Primer
Álbum: Call Me John Primer
Discográfica: Wolf
Año publicación: 2010
Fecha crítica: 4/2011
Valoración: ESSENTIAL
Blues blues blues… John Primer is one of the best artists of down-home Chicago blues, firmly rooted in fifties and sixties sound and style John is a direct HEIR of the most classic wrapping style and forms of Muddy Waters and Willie Dixon original sound, he worked with before joining Magic Slim’s Teardrops Primer was born in Camden, Mississippi in 1945 and since he was a liitle child he heard in his grandmother’s radio, artists like BB King, Jimmy Reed, Little Milton, Elmore James, Albert King and Muddy Waters He received his first guitar lessons from his cousin Percy Flax when he was only eight years old This valuable document includes fifteen songs, which cover the period from 1987 to 2009 Among the different bands which back him, there are Mojo Blues Band from Austria, Magic Slim & The Teardrops and The Real Deal Blues Band Do not forget guitar players Tom Holland, Alabama Pettis Jr or George Baze, harmonica players Billy Branch, Little McSimmons and Steve Bell, piano players Ken Barker and Detroit Junior, bass players Johnny B Gayden, Nick Holt and Michael Morrison and drummers Jerry Porter, James Harrington, Earl Howell, Bert Robinson and Mark Diffender An explosive Chicago blues bomb, that deserves a very special place in every record collection