Allen Batts

Allen Batts can be heard on Earwig releases featuring various artists:  Aron Burton Live (4935), Look At Me (4938), Ready To Cheat (4945), Back In Love Again (4949), Who’s Been Talking (4941), Red Top (4954), Jack Johnson Live In Chicago (4939), Millennium Blues (4943), Driftin’ (4947) and The Blues Sessions (4962).

Allen is a keyboard player perhaps best known as a member of Albert Collins’ original Icebreakers, touring with Albert and playing keyboards on four of the Icebreakers’ Alligator releases. He has also worked with Lacy Gibson, Eddie Clearwater, Shirley Johnson, Willie Kent, Maurice John Vaughn, Jody Williams and Lester Davenport.  He can be found here at Earwig on releases by Aron Burton, Big Jack Johnson, Lil Ed Williams and Willie Kent, Liz Mandville Greeson,  Louisiana Red and Tim Woods. Allen moved to Hope, Arkansas about 10 years ago and is now playing in a jazz group and teaching piano.