Corey Harris And Lucky Peterson Release New Blues Albums

Corey Harris – Fulton Blues (deluxe Edition) + Bonus Tracks

Corey Harris is a guitarist, songwriter, and performer who is leading a contemporary revival of country blues with a fresh, modern hand. He is a powerful and compelling singer and an accomplished guitarist whose musical artistry is complemented by serious explorations of the historical and cultural conditions that gave rise to the blues. Corey Harris was born in Denver, Colorado to parents from Texas and Kentucky, he has carved out his own niche in Blues appearing at venues throughout the world. He began his career as a New Orleans street singer, travelling throughout the southern U.S. In his early twenties he lived in Cameroon, West Africa for a year, which had a profound effect on his later work. He has recorded many old songs of the blues tradition while also creating an original vision of the blues by adding influences from reggae, soul, rock and West African music. His 1995 recording, Between Midnight and Day, is a tribute to the tradition of acoustic blues. Subsequent recordings, such as Greens From the Garden (1999), Mississippi to Mali (2003), and Daily Bread (2005) show Harris’ maturation from interpreter to songwriter. Some of his imaginative compositions are marked by a deliberate eclecticism; other works stay true to the traditional blues formula of compelling vocals and down-home guitar. With one foot in tradition and the other in contemporary experimentation, Harris is a truly unique voice in contemporary music, well on his way to becoming the alchemist of black music, recombining its constituent elements into new and powerful substances.

He has performed, recorded, and toured with many of the top names in music such as BB King, Taj Mahal, Buddy Guy, R.L.Burnside, Ali Farka Tour, Dave Matthews Band, Tracy Chapman, Wilco, Natalie Merchant, and others. Harris was a featured artist and narrator of the Martin Scorsese film, “Feel Like Going Home,” which traced the evolution of Blues from West Africa to the southern U.S.

Lucky Peterson – I’m Back Again

Lucky Peterson is one of the most versatile Blues musicians on the scene: a blazing lead guitarist, fantastic organist and a first-class singer. He plays contemporary Blues, fusing Soul, R&B, Gospel and Rock and Roll, gaining a reputation as one of the most preeminent performers of the modern Blues era. Lucky was discovered by the legendary giant of the Blues; Willie Dixon when he was a mere three years old, released his first record by five. Trained by keyboard wizards Jimmy Smith and Bill Dogget, Peterson went on to play behind Blues and Soul artists like Little Milton and Bobby “Blue” Bland. He signed with Alligator Records, releasing two albums, 1989’s “Lucky Strikes!” and the following year’s “Triple Play.” The 1990s were a very prolific era for Peterson. He released four albums with Verve Records: “I’m Ready”, “Beyond Cool”, “Lifetime” and ‘Move,” as well as collaborating with Mavis Staples on a tribute to Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson, called “Spirituals & Gospel.” At the beginning of the new Millenium he recorded two albums for Blue Thumb Records, “Lucky Peterson” and “Double Dealin'”, Inking a deal with Disques Dreyfus in 2003, he recorded one of the finest albums of his career: “Black Midnight Sun.””You Can Always Turn Around,” also on Dreyfus, released in 2010, featured ace Woodstock musicians and is an uplifting portrait of a man at the Crossroads who speaks of struggles and salvation, using the coarse lucidity of acoustic Roots-Blues with modern touches as a musical vehicle. The album was awarded the prestigious “Grand Prix du Disque” as Blues album of the year and was nominated by the Blues Foundation for the Blues Music Award in the category “Best Acoustic Blues Album 2011.”Between 2004 and 2010 Peterson released half a dozen albums on UK-based JSP Records. New Yorker Magazine has called Peterson “A master of the guitar, organ and microphone”.