I found a music station on my Dish Network that I pipe into my 150 watt per channel Kenwood stack in the basement. It plays all 1950's black R&B. The station is called "Lucille", #964. I am sure in reverence to B.B. King. A lot of the material is better than B.B., i.m.o.
This dude slipped in while I was writing down the names of all the artists and songs I liked on this station. After about 11 songs I stopped writing because I loved ALL of it. If you don't already know this (hard for a Brit to admit...) almost all the great music performed by gifted British and occasionally American born guitarists had already been created and morphed into a serious (yet largely unknown to white folk) force by blacks in the Deep South - in the 1950s and even in some cases the 1940's. Talk about being ahead of your time!
Sadly, most of these artists including Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters and even John Lee Hooker never got credit for the expertise and often songwriting they performed. Led Zeppelin is perhaps the largest thief of intellectual property produced by black blues musicians. The Rolling Stones are one of the very few that unabashedly credit these artists and have had Hooker and Muddy on stage with them.
Bernard is the son of a brilliant R&B guitarist named Luther Allison. Luther is not a 1950's musician. He is a rather obscure yet talented R&B player out of Chicago. Bernard is a current artist. Of all the irony, he lives in that great Blues "Hotbed" known as Paris, France.
Tell me this does not remind you of Stevie Ray Vaughn. Except perhaps better. Seriously.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrwBxTd7vKE
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