Artist: Lucky Peterson
Genre(s):
Blues
Discography:
Black Midnight Sun
Year: 2002
Tracks: 11
Child-prodigy status is sometimes difficult to get the better of upon reach maturity. Not so for Lucky Peterson -- he's far bigger (in more ways than one) on the contemporaneous megrims electrical circuit than he was at the precocious age of six-spot, when he scored a national R&B stumble with the Willie Dixon-produced "1-2-3-4."
Small Lucky Peterson was lucky to be born into a melodious kin. His dada, James Peterson, owned the Governor's Inn, a popular Buffalo, NY, blues night club that booked the biggies: Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Bill Doggett. The latter's mighty Hammond B-3 organ hypnotised the four-and-a-half-year-old lad, and before long Peterson was on his path under Dixon's tuition. "1-2-3-4" got Peterson on The Tonight Show and The Ed Sullivan Show, just he didn't rest on his honor -- he was doubling on guitar at old age eight, and at 17, he sign on as Little Milton's keyboardist for trey long time.
A three-year stint with Bobby Bland preceded Peterson's solo career launch, which took off when he smitten 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 Three-base hit Play, remain his finest recorded offerings. Extensive session ferment behind everyone from Etta James and Kenny Neal to Otis Rush also commenced during this period.
In 1992, Peterson's first Verve label album, I'm Ready, plant him boldly mixture modern-day rock and roll and soul into his simmering blues stew. More high-energy Verve sets followed, qualification it clear that Peterson's luck stiff heights (as does his father's, who's fashioned his own career as a bluesman with albums for Ichiban and Waldoxy). Lucky made his debut for new label Blue Thumb with a self-titled endeavor released in 1999. Dual Dealin' followed in early 2001.
