The Son Seals Story “Journey Through The Blues”

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    Artista / Grupo: The Son Seals Story

    Álbum: Journey Through The Blues

    Discográfica: VizzTone / Crows Feet

    Año publicación: 2007 (DVD)

    Fecha crítica: 12/2007

    Valoración: GREAT

Although blues already was minoritary on the seventies, singer and guitar player Frank ‘Son’ Seals’ enjoyed popular support, thanks to his unique personal style as singer, guitar player and song writer, which led him become one of the young hopes of Chicago blues circles of that time His father was a trombone player and owned a juke joint in Arkansas, which made Son to consider music as something natural in his daily life When he was only thirteen, he already played drums backing Robert Nighthawk and Earl Hooker A family friend, Mr Albert King, recruited him for his band He toured around United States It was at that time, when he decided to change drums for guitar, thanks to the influences he received of great bluesmen like Albert King, Fenton Robinson or Magic Sam (one of the major representatives of Chicago West side blues) In 1973 Bruce Iglauer discovered him and he signed for Alligator Records He recorded a bunch of good records and, at the end of the seventies, he began tours around Europe, often as member of The Chicago Blues Festival, a band formed once a year with different outstanding bluesmen to present blues to European audiences The rest of Seals’ career belongs to the history, a history now available on this juicy interesting documentary, that also includes different interviews to Son Seals himself, as well as friends and relatives, such as Bruce Iglauer, Koko Taylor, Seals’ sister Kat Sims, his son Rodney Seals, Dr John, Steven Seagal, Lonnie Brooks, Kingston Mines’ owner, Frank Pellegrino and King Biscuit Blues Festival director, Bubba Sullivan Besides these 30 minutes interviews, the DVD includes 60 minutes of music from three recorded live shows at Rooster Blues Club, The House of The Blues and Chicago Blues Fest 2001 A DVD with not a single bad minute on it and gives us the opportunity to look through one of the greatest ‘modern Chicago blues’ artists, who unfortunately passed away when he was only 62 years old



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