Bernard Allison

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Bernard Allison in the "Fiasko", Kassel, March 6, 2007

Bernard Allison (born November 26, 1965 in Chicago , Illinois ) is an American blues guitarist, singer and songwriter.

Life

Bernard, the youngest of nine children of the blues legend Luther Allison , played for the first time in a live recording of his father when he was 13. After graduating from high school, he played in Koko Taylor's band Blues Machine and Willie Dixon's Blues All-Stars . He performed at blues festivals with his father. His tutors also included Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan .

In 1989 Allison moved to Paris to live and perform with his father. In the same year the two had an exciting performance at the Chicago Blues Festival , heard on the album Let's Try It Again by Luther Allison.

In 1990 Bernard Allison's first solo album was released. In 1999, two years after his father's death, Allison returned to the United States, where he now lives with his family in Minneapolis , Minnesota .

The white cobras on the hat, with which he has performed for a long time, have a special story: After he refused to wear such a hat with a cobra, as this was only due to his late father, his fans gave him a hat with two Cobra heads that were fixed upright in the line of sight. They suggested to him that the second cobra was his father's, who had been with him since he died. He accepted this and then performed with this headgear until he decided in 2007 to part with the hat. "I just thought it was time for a change," he said in an interview with the German music magazine bluesnews in the same year .

In September 2012, Allison played with the drummer, guitarist, singer and three-time Blues Music Award winner Cedric Burnside an album together in the Winterland Studios in his home in Minneapolis one that in January 2013, entitled Allison Burnside Express came on the market .

Discography

Albums

  • 1990: The Next Generation
  • 1992: Hang On
  • 1994: No Mercy
  • 1995: Funkifino
  • 1996: No Mercy
  • 1997: Born with the Blues
  • 1998: Times Are Changing
  • 2000: Across the Water
  • 2002: Storms of Life
  • 2003: Kentucky Fried Blues (live)
  • 2004: Higher Power
  • 2005: Triple Fret (with Carl Weathersby and Larry McCray)
  • 2006: Energized. Live in Europe (CD + DVD)
  • 2007: Chills & Thrills
  • 2009: The Otherside
  • 2011: Live at the Jazzhaus (double CD)
  • 2013: Allison Burnside Express (with Cedric Burnside)
  • 2015: In the Mix
  • 2018: Let It Go
  • 2020: Songs From The Road

Guest musician

  • 1994: Luther Allison Hand Me Down My Moonshine
  • 1997: Luther Allison Reckless
  • 1999: Trudy Lynn U Don't Know What Time It Is
  • 1999: Luther Allison Funkifino
  • 2002: Ana Popović Hush!
  • 2002: Luther Allison Pay It Forward
  • 2006: Walter Trout Full Circle

DVD

  • Kentucky Fried Blues (2003)
  • Energized. Live in Europe (2006)
  • Live At The Jazzhaus (2011)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Keeping the blues alive Bernard Allison style ; bluesnews 52 (January - March 2008) ISSN  0948-5643

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Allison, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American blues guitarist
DATE OF BIRTH November 26, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago , Illinois