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💿 ALBUM REVIEW: John Primer and Friends - Tribute To Theresa's Lounge

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John fell in love with the blues as a child when his father and an older cousin played guitar and sang at night after a hard day in the fields. His mother moved to Chicago to secure a job and support her family. She promised to bring John and his sister to the big city when they reached age 18, leaving them with family. Depressed and lonely, young Primer frequently went into the neighboring woods, where he cried his troubles away and began singing the blues in solitude. He eventually built himself a diddley bow on the side of his grandmother's house out of broom wire, two nails and a brick and began accompanying himself as he sang, eventually playing for dimes and quarters in his schoolyard. After listening to Jimmy Reed , Little Milton, B.B. King , Albert King and Muddy Waters on his grandmother's record player, his biggest dream was to play alongside Muddy Waters one day. 🎵 LISTEN & SUPPORT THE ALBUM ▶ Listen to Album Samples (Clic...

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Vision From Heaven - Ronnie "Byrd" Foster - New Release Review

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I just received Vision From Heaven , the recent release by Ronnie 'Byrd' Foster . This is a posthumous release as Foster passed 2 years ago. Mr. Foster was born on September 16, 1949 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He was a member of the Pittsburgh Music Hall of Fame and voted Best Drummer in Pittsburgh four years in a row. Over the years, he was a member of the following bands in the Pittsburgh area: Michael G & The Eruptions, Jimmy Mac & The Music Factory (who then became the Igniters), Sweet Lightning, Roy Buchanan, The Silencers, Red Hot & Blue, The Hell Hounds, Mystic Knights of the Sea, Bon Ton Roulet and Iron City House Rockers. In Florida, he was also a member of the following bands: Midnight Creepers, Blues (4) Soul, Daytona Blues Society All Stars, Victor Wainwright and he was a session drummer for Kings Snake Records.  A former Pittsburgh resident myself, I had a chance to see Foster a number of times with Sweet Lightning and of course Roy Buchanan. This is...