Luther ALLISON - Let's Try It Again, Live 1989

Luther ALLISON - Let's Try It Again, Live 1989
Label: Ruf
Recorded Live at Quasimodo, Berlin,
Germany (22-25 May, 1989)
Released: 1996

Blues

Luther Allison belongs to a generation of electric blues guitarists who came of age in the '60s. These musicians appealed to both old-line blues audiences and younger, white rock audiences. Born on a cotton plantation, Allison was one of 15 children. Before he was 10 years old, he sang with a gospel group, the Southern Travellers, with whom he toured throughout the South. Circa 1951, he moved with his family to Chicago and began playing guitar. One of his boyhood friends in that city would turn out to be Muddy Waters' son. Allison first performed as a blues guitarist with his elder brother's band, which played Chicago clubs between 1954 and 1957. Luther’s own nascent band, the Rolling Stones (later renamed the Four Jivers), lasted for one year.

For the next decade Allison was a mainstay of the Chicago blues scene, often playing behind Freddie King and Magic Sam. He made his first records for Delmark in 1967, the same year he took to the road with his group, the Tornados. In 1968 he toured and recorded for World Pacific with Shakey Jake, and began making annual appearances at the Ann Arbor Blues and Jazz Festival. Hoping to find success in the music business, he moved to California in the late ’60s and soon began playing such rock venues as the Fillmore West and, in New York City, the Fillmore East and Max’s Kansas City. Dispirited, he returned to Chicago and recorded three albums for Motown’s Gordy label and the soundtrack to Cooley High.

Allison, who eventually settled near Paris, began extensively touring Europe in the ’70s and continued to delight the festival circuit over the next two decades with his lengthy, intense performances. In July 1997, Allison was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer, succumbing to the illness a few days short of his 58th birthday.
From The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll Simon & Schuster, 2001
**
Luther Allison- Guitar, Harmonica, Vocals
Peter Giron- Bass
Vincent Daune- Drums
"Fast Frank" Rabaste- Guitar
Michel Carras- Keyboards 
Sulaiman Hakim- Saxophone
**
01. Serious  8.15
02. Backtrack  3.06
03. Let's Try It Again  9.29
04. Freedom  7.54
05. Life Is A Bitch  5.06
06. Just Memories  5.30
07. Fight  5.03
08. Bad News Is Coming  6.16
09. Just My Guitar (And Me)  6.16
10. Now You Got It  4.56
11. Let's Have A Little Talk  7.44
12. The Dock Of The Bay  6.27
**
NoPassword
*
DLink
*
1 2