Lucky Peterson - A forgotten legend

About a year ago I had the pleasure of catching Lucky live in Montreal. He was just fantastic. Only about 30 of us turned out but he just came out and said 'If there's only one of you out there I'm going to give you the best show I can give because paid your money and you took the time to come out and see me play'. He then tore through an awesome selection of grooving and rocking numbers, sometimes on the organ, sometimes on the axe. As a seemingly unsolvable technical hitch threathened to derail the show he wandered over to his organ and played a beautiful soulful tune reminiscent of Donny Hathaway's rendition of A Song For You. He said it was a new thing he was working on so I'm still hoping to track that one down one day. Visit him at http://www.myspace.com/luckypetersonmusic and have a listen to a couple of the samples there. He's probably blues with some soul mixed through rather than the other way around. He may appeal to Taj Mahal fans from listening to a track of his recent stripped back approach there. I have Tete a Tete which was an album he did with guitarman Andy Aledort. If you're into what you hear then this album might be a good pick-up to see some of his electric blues that he's famous for and to enjoy these two riffing off. He's sadly become another example of the older player who is the complete package but has dropped out of the public's thoughts. Give him some of your attention and you'll be rewarded.