Bob STROGER And His Chicago Blues Legends - In The House, Live At Lucerne 2002

Bob STROGER And His Chicago Blues Legends - In The House, Live At Lucerne  2002

Blues

Bob Stroger, bass player and blues vocalist, was born in the state of Missouri. He moved to Chicago in 1955 where he lived in the back of of a night club on the westside. Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters were regulars there. "It looked like they were having a lot of fun, and I made up my mind that what I wanted to do was play music, Bob remembers."
A veteran of the Chicago blues music scene, Bob has recorded and worked with a long list of contemporaries.
In 1998, Bob and an all-star group of fellow musicians played the 'Lucerne Blues Festival'.
The recordings from those nights in Switzerland are now released as Bob Stroger's first album under his own name. Bob's supported by first-rate musicians, including in-demand session piano player and 'Delmark' recording artist,Ken Saydak and his trio, the soulful guitar of another 'Delmark' regular,James Wheeler, and Billy Flynn who's one of greatest today when it comes to soulful blues (slide)guitar playing. Swinging and grooving Chicago style blues at its best!
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While Bob Stroger is actually the only figure here deserving regard as a legend, there's little question that his sidemen are certainly contributors to the long history of blues. Joined by James Wheeler and Billy Flynn on guitar and vocals, Ken Saydak's piano, Ron Sorin's harp, and Marty Binder's backbeats, Stroger takes the vocals for a few tracks and even though his voice is less than riveting, his conviction is apparent. Flynn steps up for a rumbling version of Muddy Waters' Lovin' Man and the microphone goes to Wheeler for his own Extension 309 before stepping forward to offer the disc's best singing and excellent guitar. Stroger rolls back out front for a stumbling Loan Me Train Fare before the gloves come off on Heads Up, an instrumental example of a unit working remarkably well together.
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Bob Stroger- (Vocals, Bass);
James Wheeler- (Vocals, Guitar);
Billy Flynn- (Vocals, Guitar);
Ken Saydak- (Vocals, Piano);
Ron Sorin- (Harmonica);
Marty Binder- (Drums).
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01.Intro
02.Talk To Me Mama
03.Stranded In St. Louis
04.Loving Man
05.Extension 309
06.Gonna Make Some Changes
07.Loan Me Train Fare
08.Heads Up
09.Thinking And Drinking
10.Going To Chicago
11.Keep Your Hands Off Her
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