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Larry Burton
Taken from
Larry Burton's Website:
Larry is the compete package-a great guitarist, a soulful blues singer
and a creative songwriter. Larry's resumé reads
like a who's who of the blues. He has played in support of
Albert King, Albert Collins, John Lee Hooker, Taj Mahal, Johnny Winter,
Koko Taylor, Little Milton , Son Seals Otis Rush, Jimmy Johnson, Lonnie
Brooks, Jimmy Witherspoon, Sugar Blue, Kim Wilson and Champion Jack
Dupree just to name a few.
Larry had also played on over two dozen albums including the great
Albert King album San Francesco '83 and Lou Rawls' experimental Shades
of Blue. He's on A.C. Reed's iconoclastic Fed Up With This
Music. He's on four Collins albums, two of them recorded live
in Switzerland and Japan. He's on three albums with Johnny
Littlejohn and two with Jimmy Johnson, He's featured on Past,
Present & Future (Earwig Records) by his brother Aron Burton,
the well known blues singer and bass player. He was also
co-leader of the Burton Brothers Blues Band when they cut their album
released in Europe on the B&B Label. Larry is also
spotlighted on the Icehouse Records release, Slide Guitar Blues, along
with Johnny Winter, Sonny Landreth and Elmore James.
He has played on five albums that were nominated for Grammy
Awards.
Naturally, all the other blues artist would have been happy if Larry
had continued to back them up with his outstanding rhythm work-he plays
full, precise chords that are fingered so cleanly and played so
tenderly, you can hear every note-and his fully developed, fiery
solos. But his ability to front a band blossomed on one of
his European tours and led to the release of his own first album
Hustler's Paradise on the Brambus Label. It is chock full of
scorching guitar and features all original songs by Larry
Burton. They explore the nuances of the man/woman
relationship that is the source of so much of the world's blues-and the
medicine for it too.
Larry's blues are as real as you can get. He was born in
Coldwater, Mississippi in 1951, lived briefly in Memphis before coming
to Chicago in 1956, where he grew up on the West Side and listened to
Big Bill Hill's pioneering blues radio show. He started
playing bass, then guitar with a group of high school buddies that
included Tony Llorens, later the producer of several Albert King album;
in fact, everybody in the group wound up working with Albert at one
time or another. But they weren't playing the blues at those
sock hops and "Las Vegas Nights," they were playing the latest hits by
James Brown, Wilson Pickett or Sam and Dave-not to mention the Rascals,
The Beatles and especially Jimi Hendrix, who remains one of Larry's
favorites. It was in 1967 that his brother Willie, who played
saxophone, introduced Larry to the local club scene, and it's been a
steady diet of blues ever since.
Larry has a new album that he recorded in Niederglatt, Switzerland.
It's called "Live @ PJ'S Blues Stop" and has just been released on the
Babylon Records Label. When it comes to your record store
pick up on it. And when Larry brings his blues to your town,
go see him; it's sure to be and evening that you'll never forget.
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