CD title - Salute to Sunnyland Slim
label - Blue Loon
catalog# BLN-035
UPC# 7-51483-00352-0
On The House, Any Old Lonesome Day, Hangin' Round the House, Floral Park Boogie, Depression Blues, Salute to Sunnyland Slim, Cool Disposition, Jack Knife, Everybody's Got To Change Sometimes, Shake Dancer, Going Back to Memphis, Lonesome Child, Pinetop's Blues, You Don't Love Me, Walkin' On The Ceiling, Church Street Blues, Wah Wah Blues.
Barrelhouse Chuck (piano & vocals), Todd Levine (harmonica & vocals), Billy Flynn & Hash Brown (guitar), Calvin Jones (bass), S.P. Leary (drums), with special guests: Betty Ducre, Rick Holmes, Michael Peters (bass), John Carpender, Sam Lay, Willie Smith, Kenny Smith (drums), Rick Kirch (guitar), Johnny Tanner (harp), and the Blues Swingers (horns)
Barrelhouse Chuck studied under pianists Sunnyland Slim, Pinetop Perkins, Lafayette Leake, and Little Brother Montgomery, and is among the few Chicago blues pianists who can lay claim to such distinguished linneage. His style is a blend of boogie-woogie and blues piano which never fails to elicit rave reviews wherever he performs. Chuck has recorded with Louis Myers, Jimmy Rogers, Hip Linkchain, Jimmy Dawkins, Billy Boy Arnold, Hubert Sumlin, Henry Townsend, S.P. Leary, Detroit Jr., and Big Smokey Smothers, among others. Additional recording credits include contemporary artists such as Willie Kent, R.J. Mischo, Charlie Musselwhite, Sugar Blue,
Mark Hummel, Hash Brown, and Dave Spector........ the list goes on and on!!! His debut CD as a frontman,
"Salute To Sunnyland Slim" finds Barrelhose Chuck in fine form, backed by an all-star line-up
"The name "Barrelhouse Chuck" says it all,with absolutely out of control boogie-woogie piano,large horns, swinging guitar and appropriately placed amplied juicy harmonica,and yes, this cd can give it to ya straight just like the good Dr. himself. Cut # three has Todd Levine blowing Like Hell, so fat! A (5) Harp Cd, put this in your collection!" - Steve BluzHarp Harvell “Straight-on, staunchly post-war blues. It’s no stiff-necked preservationist work – this baby cooks!” – Blues Access “Chuck plays masterfully, and guitarists Billy Flynn and Hash Brown do a super job as well.” – Living Blues “Barrelhouse Chuck is a walking encyclopedia of post-war piano blues licks. The release is not only a tip of the cap to Sunnyland Slim, but to Otis Spann and Pinetop Perkins as well. Goering’s piano work is echoic without being purely derivative of his Chiacgo influences.” – Blues News “The album does precisely what its title implies. Barrelhouse Chuck craftily presents an important slice of blues.” – Blues Revue “Chuck Goering has put together a 17-song CD that pays tribute to virtually every rocker or bluesman who sat behind a piano. There are boogie-woogies, after-hours blues, jump numbers -–something for everyone. The guest artists are plentiful and keep the music from falling into a rut. Of note are Todd Levine’s Sonny Boy-inspired harmonica and Billy Flynn’s stinging guitar solos.” – Rock & Blues News
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