Ronnie Baker Brooks

Ronnie Baker Brooks - Blues In My DNAIn Ronnie Baker Brooks powerhouse hands, blues-rock never sounded so outrageous. Soul never sounded so delicious. And the blues never sounded so profound...one of todays top live performers. Blues Music MagazineA monster guitarist with an ample supply of technique and passion AllMusicRonnie Baker Brooks bristles with energy, inspiration and self-confidence. Living BluesChicago guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Ronnie Baker Brooks is one of the citysand the worldsmost undeniably talented and electrifying bluesmen. Ronnie was born into Chicago blues royalty as the son of legendary multiple GRAMMY Award nominee, Blues Hall Of Famer, and longtime Alligator Records recording star Lonnie Brooks. He is among the few contemporary blues artists who learned his craft directly from many of the genres icons, including Albert Collins, B.B. King, Willie Dixon, Koko Taylor and, most significantly, his father. Im blessed to have played with and learned from the best. Im carrying them within me, he says of all the legends he knew growing up and the journey hes been on.With his new Alligator Records debut, Blues In My DNA, Ronnie delivers an up-to-the-minute, organic masterpiece. The album, the fifth of his career, is firmly rooted in the blues with Ronnie incorporating his own brand of rock, funk and soul to the mix. I just play what I feel, he says. Its all from the heart. Produced by famed studio wizard Jim Gaines (who has produced Santana, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Lonnie Brooks, Luther Allison and many others), Blues In My DNA is a career-defining statement from Baker Brooks, with each of the 11 original songs its own chapter in his ever-evolving story.Blues In My DNA effortlessly moves from the funkified rocker Im Feeling You to the not-quite-sanctified, old-school blues Robbing Peter To Pay Paul to the deep Memphis soul ballad Accept My Love to the epic, crowd-pleasing, guitar-driven Stuck On Stupid. The autobiographical title track, a song Ronnie describes as a bridge between me and my audience, is the albums centerpiece, the passionate guitar solos underlining the lyrics story of triumphing over racism, poverty and glass ceilings. I aint complaining, he sings, Im just explaining, before declaring, I got love in my blood, the blues in my DNA.