THE LUCKY PETERSON BAND FEATURING TAMARA PETERSON
''LIVE AT THE 55 ARTS CLUB BERLIN, DISC TWO''
2012
158:29
1 /I'm Back Again
Tony Coleman / Lucky Peterson 5:24
2 /Smooth Sailing
Marty Grebb 6:29
3 /Trouble
Ray LaMontagne 8:53
4 /Blues Medley 12:51
5 /You Shook Me
Willie Dixon / J.B. Lenoir 9:09
6 /Knocking
Adam Deitch / Eric Krasno 3:24
7 /How Do I, Why Do I
Tamara Peterson / Stephen Washington 4:07
8 /I Don't Like You But I Love You
Tamara Peterson 4:56
9 /Been So Long
Lucky Peterson / Sam Washington 11:54
10 /I Wanna Know What Good Love is
Tamara Peterson / Stephen Washington 6:17
11 /Lost The Right
Lucky Peterson / Betty Washington / Stephen Washington 5:41
DISC TWO
1 /Giving Me The Blues
Rico McFarland 4:41
2 /Ta' Ta' You
Johnny "Guitar" Watson 7:13
3 /It Ain't Safe
Clarence Carter / George Jackson 4:46
4 /I'm Ready
Willie Dixon 4:43
5 /Who's Been Talking?
Howlin' Wolf 4:58
6 /I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
Robert Johnson 10:31
7 /The World's In a Tangle
Jimmy Rogers 2:32
8 /Kiss
Prince 6:51
9 /Last Night You Left
Tamara Peterson 7:31
10 /Ain't Nobody Like You
Lemuel Humes 10:26
11 /Real Music
Tamara Peterson 14:58
Shawn Kellerman /Guitar
Lucky Peterson /Arranger, Guitar, Hammond B3, Keyboards, Vocals
Tamara Peterson /Featured Artist, Vocals
Raul Valdes /Drums, Featured Artist
Tim Waites /Bass, Featured Artist
BIOGRAPHY
by Bill Dahl
Child prodigy status is sometimes difficult to overcome upon reaching maturity. Not so for Lucky Peterson -- he's far bigger (in more ways than one) on the contemporary blues circuit than he was at the precocious age of six, when he scored a national R&B hit with the Willie Dixon-produced "1-2-3-4."
Little Lucky Peterson was lucky to be born into a musical family. His dad, James Peterson, owned the Governor's Inn, a popular Buffalo, New York blues nightclub that booked the biggies: Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Bill Doggett. The latter's mighty Hammond B-3 organ fascinated the four-and-a-half-year-old lad, and soon Peterson was on his way under Dixon's tutelage. "1-2-3-4" got Peterson on The Tonight Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, but he didn't rest on his laurels -- he was doubling on guitar at age eight, and at 17, he signed on as Little Milton's keyboardist for three years.
A three-year stint with Bobby Bland preceded Peterson's solo career launch, which took off when he struck up a musical relationship with Florida-based producer Bob Greenlee. Two Greenlee-produced albums for Alligator, 1989's Lucky Strikes! and the following year's Triple Play, remain a pair of his finest recorded offerings. Extensive session work behind everyone from Etta James to Kenny Neal to Otis Rush also commenced during this period.
In 1992, Peterson's first Verve label album, I'm Ready, found him boldly mixing contemporary rock and soul into his simmering blues stew. More high-energy Verve sets followed, making it clear that Peterson's career was in full swing (meanwhile, his father fashioned his own career as a bluesman with albums for Ichiban and Waldoxy and remained an active player in Florida until his death in 2010). Lucky made his debut for new label Blue Thumb with a self-titled effort released in 1999, and Double Dealin' followed in early 2001.
The new millennium found Peterson recording a number of well-received albums for various labels, including Black Midnight Sun (2003, Dreyfus), the father-and-son James and Lucky Peterson duo album If You Can't Fix It (2004, JSP), Heart of Pain (2010, JSP), You Can Always Turn Around (2010, Dreyfus), and Every Second a Fool Is Born (2011, JSP). Peterson self-produced himself for the first time with 2014's The Son of a Bluesman, which appeared on the Jazz Village imprint.
OFFICIAL SITE
''LIVE AT THE 55 ARTS CLUB BERLIN, DISC TWO''
2012
158:29
1 /I'm Back Again
Tony Coleman / Lucky Peterson 5:24
2 /Smooth Sailing
Marty Grebb 6:29
3 /Trouble
Ray LaMontagne 8:53
4 /Blues Medley 12:51
5 /You Shook Me
Willie Dixon / J.B. Lenoir 9:09
6 /Knocking
Adam Deitch / Eric Krasno 3:24
7 /How Do I, Why Do I
Tamara Peterson / Stephen Washington 4:07
8 /I Don't Like You But I Love You
Tamara Peterson 4:56
9 /Been So Long
Lucky Peterson / Sam Washington 11:54
10 /I Wanna Know What Good Love is
Tamara Peterson / Stephen Washington 6:17
11 /Lost The Right
Lucky Peterson / Betty Washington / Stephen Washington 5:41
DISC TWO
1 /Giving Me The Blues
Rico McFarland 4:41
2 /Ta' Ta' You
Johnny "Guitar" Watson 7:13
3 /It Ain't Safe
Clarence Carter / George Jackson 4:46
4 /I'm Ready
Willie Dixon 4:43
5 /Who's Been Talking?
Howlin' Wolf 4:58
6 /I Believe I'll Dust My Broom
Robert Johnson 10:31
7 /The World's In a Tangle
Jimmy Rogers 2:32
8 /Kiss
Prince 6:51
9 /Last Night You Left
Tamara Peterson 7:31
10 /Ain't Nobody Like You
Lemuel Humes 10:26
11 /Real Music
Tamara Peterson 14:58
Shawn Kellerman /Guitar
Lucky Peterson /Arranger, Guitar, Hammond B3, Keyboards, Vocals
Tamara Peterson /Featured Artist, Vocals
Raul Valdes /Drums, Featured Artist
Tim Waites /Bass, Featured Artist
BIOGRAPHY
by Bill Dahl
Child prodigy status is sometimes difficult to overcome upon reaching maturity. Not so for Lucky Peterson -- he's far bigger (in more ways than one) on the contemporary blues circuit than he was at the precocious age of six, when he scored a national R&B hit with the Willie Dixon-produced "1-2-3-4."
Little Lucky Peterson was lucky to be born into a musical family. His dad, James Peterson, owned the Governor's Inn, a popular Buffalo, New York blues nightclub that booked the biggies: Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Bill Doggett. The latter's mighty Hammond B-3 organ fascinated the four-and-a-half-year-old lad, and soon Peterson was on his way under Dixon's tutelage. "1-2-3-4" got Peterson on The Tonight Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, but he didn't rest on his laurels -- he was doubling on guitar at age eight, and at 17, he signed on as Little Milton's keyboardist for three years.
A three-year stint with Bobby Bland preceded Peterson's solo career launch, which took off when he struck up a musical relationship with Florida-based producer Bob Greenlee. Two Greenlee-produced albums for Alligator, 1989's Lucky Strikes! and the following year's Triple Play, remain a pair of his finest recorded offerings. Extensive session work behind everyone from Etta James to Kenny Neal to Otis Rush also commenced during this period.
In 1992, Peterson's first Verve label album, I'm Ready, found him boldly mixing contemporary rock and soul into his simmering blues stew. More high-energy Verve sets followed, making it clear that Peterson's career was in full swing (meanwhile, his father fashioned his own career as a bluesman with albums for Ichiban and Waldoxy and remained an active player in Florida until his death in 2010). Lucky made his debut for new label Blue Thumb with a self-titled effort released in 1999, and Double Dealin' followed in early 2001.
The new millennium found Peterson recording a number of well-received albums for various labels, including Black Midnight Sun (2003, Dreyfus), the father-and-son James and Lucky Peterson duo album If You Can't Fix It (2004, JSP), Heart of Pain (2010, JSP), You Can Always Turn Around (2010, Dreyfus), and Every Second a Fool Is Born (2011, JSP). Peterson self-produced himself for the first time with 2014's The Son of a Bluesman, which appeared on the Jazz Village imprint.
OFFICIAL SITE