Bernard Allison: Luther's Blues Tour 2025

Master Blues Guitary Bernard Allison will celebrate his father Luther's art in Prague in April. On April 16, 2025 in Prague's Jazz dock, he will pay homage to his father, bluesman Luther Allison. It will present its latest double album called Luther’s Blues , which contains twenty father's songs. Although Bernard learned u big The guitarists of Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Winter and Stevie Ray Vaughan, his father and the music family in which he grew up. But he never stayed with traditional blues, but he always sought his own musical language, innovated the blues style, shifted towards the present. At the concert in Prague, family roots will meet contemporary blues spiced funky and rock. The current form of Bernard Allison was appreciated by the visitors of last year's Festival Blues Alive , so Prague has something to look forward to. The recording celebrates the music of Bernard's father Luther, one of the leading representatives of the Blues Chicago and the central character of the Ruf Records. "From the first day, I promised myself and my mother Fannie Mae Allison that I would always include one or two father's songs on each board I upload," says Bernard. He follows the promise throughout his musical career, always plays Luther's songs on his recordings or concerts. At the same time, it focuses on a style that is more funky and more rock -focused, which differs from the traditional blues in which it grew up. His father always supported him when Bernard was looking for his own musical language. He told him to play as he felt, " than to copy someone. It is a selection of songs that contained the previous Bernard's large records. Allison chose them for this collection. They took care of remastering in Pauler Acoustics. The album was published in the 30th anniversary of the Ruf Records label and more than thirty years after the first Bernard's recording. Album luther’s blues offers twenty The songs of his father Luther transferred to the 21st century by a member of the Blues generation that followed him. It does not have to be Luther's most famous compositions. As Bernard said when he put together what to put on a new album - he often chooses songs that "My father's albums remained and I will give them a new tone." Records from the latest studio album Highs & Lows , which became number 1 on the blues billboard charts in 2022 and ensured him nomination for the blues album of the year at the Blues Music Awards. Bernard's interpretations of the classic songs of Luther Allison as Bad Love , Life is and Bitch and Let it Again will also find fans on the album. And there is also the song Serious , the first released in 1987. The son calls her as the "special I play every evening" and believes it is the most popular father's composition around the world.