Bernard Allison and The Blues Reincarnation Project Brunch

Bernard Allison totes the same smokin’ six-string shooter that his late father, Luther Allison, assaulted the blues with. He is blessed with his father’s soulful voice, spiritual devotion, and a musical freedom that experiments with the blues. Bernard listened to his dad’s influences like Magic Sam, Otis Rush, T-Bone Walker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, and B.B. King. He also got into the next generation that followed, people like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Winter, and Jimi Hendrix.

Bernard made his first appearance on record at age 13, when he played on a live LP his father recorded in Peoria, IL. One week after he graduated from high school, Bernard got a call from Koko Taylor asking to be her lead guitar player. He joined Koko Taylor’s Blues Machine for three years. “Koko and Pops Taylor taught me the do’s and don’t’s of the road. Bein’ really careful and watching people. They were like my mom and pops. It was a great education, I was able to tour the world and see different cultures. We backed Willie Dixon. Koko was the only group I played in besides my father.”

As a true “son of the blues,” Bernard possesses the requisite guitar feel and vocal intonations necessary to push his blues into the next century. He knows the energy level necessary to hold audiences and combines enough showmanship and spontaneity to push the performance in fresh, innovative directions each night.

Amid all the daily pop culture pressures to be the next American Idol, why does Bernard stay rooted in the blues? “The blues is my roots. Regardless of how far outside of the blues I reach for tones, I can’t ever leave the blues. Whenever I play, all those guitar parts are Luther Allison coming through me. My dad was the same way, he wasn’t all blues. He loved Otis Redding or Chuck Berry. I’m just showing where my influences come from, and respecting the people who got me to this point.”(opens in a new tab)

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THE BLUES REINCARNATION PROJECT is a funkified blues-rock, British blues, and new age blues-influenced band consists of an up-and-coming guitarist from the Newark, Delaware area, Jeffrey 'Ghanaian Bluesman' Attakorah, a guitarist whose influences are based in blues rock, classic rock, and modern R&B, and a former member of Newark, Delaware-based punk band, 'The Checkered heroes, Charlie Greaves on drums, and New Castle, Delaware native Dylan Walker, a bassist well versed in classic rock and traditional blues genres—occasionally joined by Mr. Michael Macartney, a regional keyboardist who cut his teeth playing in the Funk, Soul, and Folk-based music scene. Together, they "just play whatever, with a hint of Blues," with the goal of bringing the blues back to the younger generation.(opens in a new tab)

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